Mommy, a nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise, and parent of 16 hatchlings in two clutches, walks in her enclosure at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia, Wednesday, August 20, 2025. (Photo by Matt Rourke/AP Photo)





Storks stand on a field on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, early Monday, August 18, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A baby orangutan Rufus hanging from her mother, Summer, who is hanging by her feet from a brace on the climbing frame in the second decade of August 2025. The images were taken at Blackpool Zoo by local photographer Alison Allen. (Photo by Alison Allen/Solent News & Photo Agency)





The picture dated August 20, 2025 shows a Grey Heron catching a Pike at Tices Meadow in Farnham, Surrey, UK. The tall, prehistoric-looking birds can often be seen standing like a statue on the edge of ponds and lakes, contemplating their next meal. (Photo by Surrey Hills Photography/Bav Media)





Chester Zoo in the second decade of August 2025 has welcomed a pair of tiny golden lion tamarins, named George, seven, and Leaf, 12. (Phoot by Chester Zoo)





An aerial photo shows horses grazing on the grassland in Tashkurgan County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, 12 August 2025. Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County is an autonomous county located in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, serving as home to the Tajik ethnic group, one of the 56 nationalities recognized by the Chinese government. (Photo by Alex Plavevski/EPA)





One of the giant panda cub twins Leni or Lotti plays with the mother Meng Meng, left, at the Panda Garden during their first birthday party at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, August 22, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Wildlife photographer Goran Anastasovski caught the moment a lion at Skopje Zoo, in North Macedonia, woke from a nap and shook his mane in August 2025. (Photoby Goran Anastasovski/Splitpics UK)





A roe deer is seen running away among the burnt trees as firefighters and Turkish General Directorate of Forestry teams continue their efforts to extinguish the fire, which started in a forested area in the Gelibolu district of Canakkale and reached the Eceabat district, from air and land its second day of work in Canakkale, Turkiye on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An African white-backed vulture strides across the backs of others in a frenzied scramble for food at sunrise in Zimanga wildlife reserve, South Africa in the second decade of August 2025. (Photo by Mark Strom/Solent News & Photo Agency)





An eel is seen struggling on the surface of a blue-green algae bloom at Battery Harbour on August 18, 2025 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland. The eel fishing season on Lough Neagh has been cancelled due to the impact of blue-green algae blooms and related environmental changes. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)





Storks, who migrated from Africa and spent the spring and summer months in Turkiye before setting out again for their autumn migration, are seen resting on the rocks in Afyonkarahisar, Turkiye on August 17, 2025. Hundreds of storks, who started their journey towards Africa, rested on tree branches, rocks and lampposts. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This handout picture released on August 20, 2025, by the University of Santiago USACH, shows a family of penguins during a study led by a team of Chilean scientists of the University of Santiago with researchers from the Netherlands and Germany, to determine the presence of heavy metals in Antarctica due to the increase in tourism in the area. Antarctica is showing increasing signs of the polluting impact of tourism and scientific activities, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Sustainability. In the visited areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, heavy metal pollutants have been detected in quantities ten times higher than 40 years ago. (Photo by Jose Jorquera/University of Santiago USACH/AFP Photo)





An osprey (Pandion haliaetus) lifts a trout from the water after catching it during a hunt at a lake in Stamford, United Kingdom, on August 5, 2025. (Photo by Stuart Brock/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A king vulture is pictured at the Berlin Zoo, Germany, 20 August 2025. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/EPA)





Eurasian oystercatcher a migratory bird species notable for its red eyes and beak, is seen searching for food in a wetland in Bursa, Turkiye on July 21, 2025. Oystercatcher, which lives in wetlands such as seas, lakes and lagoons, feeds mostly on shellfish in coastal ecosystems with its pointed beak, while in inland areas it hunts worms and insects. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This photograph shows a baby female albino armadillo born on May 7, 2025 inside her enclosure, at Beauval Zoo, in Saint Aignan on August 25, 2025. This is the first time that a “three-banded” armadillo with albinism has been observed in the world. (Photo by Guillaume Souvant/AFP Photo)





A buzzard takes off carrying a beehive in its talons at Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh, India in the last decade of August 2025, after raiding the nest for larvae as bees swarm around it. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Two Point O Media/Cover Images)