A newborn lion cub is seen at Nama zoo in Gaza City, Saturday, August 13, 2022. The lioness gave birth to three cubs five days after Israel and Palestinian militants ended a fierce round of cross-border fighting that saw thundering Israeli airstrikes and Palestinian rocket fire. (Photo by Fatima Shbair/AP Photo)





A herring with a perch fish in its mouth in the River Barrow, Carlow in the Republic of Ireland on August 15, 2022. (Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images)





A fox cub snarls at a garden gnome in a suburban garden in Halifax, West Yorkshire on August 16, 2022. There are an estimated 150,000 urban foxes in the UK. (Photo by Steve Midgley/South West News Service)





A small meadow pipit (left) is run off her feet as she tries to keep up with the demanding feeding schedule of an imposter - a larger cuckoo (right) on the Isle of Mull, Scotland in August 2022. (Photo by Graeme Cuerden/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Some flamingos rest in La laguna de Zóñar, en Aguilar de la Frontera (Cordoba), Spain, 15 August 2022. The lagoons in Cordoba are affected by drought and their water levels are the lowest recorded since 1996. (Photo by Rafa Alcaide/EPA/EFE)





Beluga whales are photographed underwater in the murky waters of the Churchill River near Hudson Bay outside Churchill, northern Canada on August 5, 2022. Under the slightly murky surface where the waters of the Churchill River meet Hudson Bay, the belugas have a great time under the amazed eye of tourists, several thousand of whom come every year to the small town of Churchill in northern Manitoba to observe them. In August, at the mouth of the Churchill River, in this area at the gateway to the Canadian Arctic, which is warming three to four times faster than the rest of the planet, temperatures fluctuate between 10 and 20°. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP Photo)





Zebras drink water in the Etosha National Park in Namibia on August 15, 2022. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A wild boar (R) and Ceylon spotted deer roam in a meadow of the Yala National Park in Yala, Sri Lanka on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





A bird catches a fish in the wetland of Nea Kios near Nafplio, Greece, 22 August 2022. (Photo by Bougiotis Evagelos/EPA/EFE)





The kingfisher, which can dive at speeds of up to 25 mile-per-hour, is seen shooting upwards with its prize held tightly in its beak in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom in August 2022. (Photo by Dave Newman/Media Drum World)





Eight-week-old great grey owl chick starts their flying school training at Scottish Owl Centre in West Lothian on August 8, 2022. Keepers are teaching the young bird how to fly to food like her parents would in the wild – and use bits of chicken to lure her. They said the curious youngster sometimes struggles to pay attention in class and would rather use her newfound freedom to explore. (Photo by Katielee Arrowsmith/South West News Service)





Stanley, a five day old Rothschild giraffe, takes his first steps outside the giraffe house at Chester Zoo on August 11, 2022 in Chester, England. Stanley's mum Orla delivered him onto soft straw after a 15-month pregnancy and three hour long labour last saturday. Keepers named 6ft Stanley after Mount Stanley, the tallest mountain in Uganda, Africa, where the zoo’s conservationists are fighting to boost giraffe numbers. Rothschild’s giraffes are one of the Africa’s most at risk mammals with less than 2,500 now remaining in the wild. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)





An albino Bengal tiger cub called “Kartopu” is seen in the open area at Gaziantep Wildlife Protection Park in Gaziantep, Turkiye on August 09, 2022. The tiger cub brought to Gaziantep gained weight with special care after it was found to weigh 22 kilograms when it was only 3 months old in a villa in Istanbul. (Photo by Okan Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





An osprey plucks a trout from a loch in Aviemore, in the Cairngorms National Park in northeast Scotland in August 2022. (Photo by Jamie Macarthur/Animal News Agency)





Aung-Bo, a 21-year-old asian elephant is cooled down by a keeper at Chester Zoo during the heatwave on August 11, 2022 in Chester, United Kingdom. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)





Here, hare, here: it looks like a wave to the photographer Natasha Weyers-Gehring, but she believes the animal is more likely to brushing off the dust of the recent harvest in a field near Winchester, UK in the last decade of August 2022: “Hares are very on the ball when it comes to harvest time – they are always quick to get out of the way and often return to continue grazing afterwards”. (Photo by Natasha Weyers-Gehring/Solent News)





A rare white Kermode bear, sometimes called the spirit bear, hunts salmon in British Columbia, Canada in August 2022. There are believed to be as few as 100 of the bears, which are a sub-species of the American black bear. (Photo by Jenny Stevens/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A two-day-old newly born elephant stands beside mother Mega at the Ex-situ conservation carried out by Taman Satwa Lembah Hijau Bandar Lampung (TSLHBL), in Lampung province on August 8, 2022. (Photo by Perdiansyah/AFP Photo)





A Heron preening on the Dodder, Ireland on August 26, 2022. (Photo by Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Time)





A lion in being returned to his Zoo in Teste-de-Buch, southwestern France on August 3, 2022, following their evacuation during the recent wildfires in the area. The wildfires which started on July 12, 2022, devoured nearly 21,000 hectares of forest in 12 days in Landiras and La Teste-de-Buch on the Arcachon basin (Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP Photo)