Sea lions bask on rocks on Robinson Crusoe Island, in the Pacific Juan Fernandez Islands, off the coast of Chile, on January 30, 2019. This divers' paradise, some 700 km west of the Chilean coast and with a population of about a thousand inhabitants, has just taken a fundamental step in its conservation – by 2020 it aspires to become free of single-use plastics. (Photo by Ana Fernandez/AFP Photo)





This handout picture released on February 15, 2019 by Oikonos and taken on February 2016 shows a close-up of a male Juan Fernandez firecrown (Sephanoides fernandensis) hummingbird pictured at Robinson Crusoe Island, in the Pacific Juan Fernandez Islands, off the coast of Chile. (Photo by Héctor Gutiérrez/AFP Photo/Oikonos)





This picture taken on February 20, 2019, shows a monkey drinking tea at Giza Zoo in Cairo. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





Seized reptiles are displayed during a press conference in East Melbourne, Australia, 07 March 2019. Up to 12 lizards were seized after raids at Narre Warren, Oakleigh and Clayton this morning as part of an ongoing operation to bust illegal smugglers. (Photo by James Ross/EPA/EFE)





An Oriental Garden lizard basks in the winter morning sun in Guwahati, Assam, India, 25 February 2019. The Oriental Garden lizard is a common species found all over India. The silent predator's main food source are ants and tiny insects. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A brown-eared bulbul pecks at leftovers of Japanese cornelian cherries, or “sansuyu” in Korean, as yellow flowers of a sansuyu tree bloom in the southeastern city of Ulsan, South Korea, 04 March 2019. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Yonhap)





An Indian man inspects a pigeon at a livestock market at Maskan Chavadi in Chennai on February 24, 2019. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A newborn Asian elephant stands next to her mother at Pairi Daiza wildlife park, a zoo and botanical garden in Brugelette, Belgium on February 28, 2019. (Photo by Bart Biesemans/Reuters)





Two stilts look out over a lake that has turned a vivid pink thanks to extreme salt levels further exacerbated by hot weather in a startling natural phenomena that resembles a toxic spill, in Melbourne on March 4, 2019. The natural spectacle is the result of green algae at the bottom of the lake at Westgate Park on the outskirts of Melbourne responding to high levels of salt and changing colour. (Photo by William West/AFP Photo)





White storks (Ciconia ciconia) flap their wings during their courtship in Biebesheim, Germany, 26 February 2019. The courtship of the white storks begins in late February. (Photo by Ronald Wittek/EPA/EFE)





An Oriol bird extracts honey from Modar flowers on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, 22 February 2019. Modar trees are in full bloom, with their bright red flowers transforming the surrounding into a tapestry of colour. Modar flowers herald the advent of spring in north east India. These seasonal flowers attract a variety of wild birds and honeybees. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A twelve-days-old male Nubian giraffe calf (C) is framed by two adults in the animals' enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, 25 February 2019. According to Prague Zoo, the baby was born on 13 February 2019 and it is 84th giraffe birth in the zoo's history. (Photo by Martin Divíšek/EPA/EFE)





A greenfinch feeds at a feeder attached at a apartment's window in Minsk, Belarus February 22, 2019. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)





A dog takes part in the “Blocao” or dog carnival parade during carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2, 2018. (Photo by Sergio Moraes/Reuters)





A pair of Peregrine Falcons mate while perched on a branch along the Palisades Cliffs above the Hudson River in State Line Lookout Park in Alpine, New Jersey, U.S., March 4, 2019. (Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters)





Yashin, a one-year-old Himalayan bear cub, plays inside an open-air cage as he wakes up after winter hibernation while his mother still sleeps at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia March 5, 2019. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





Spaniels arrive for the first day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, Britain, March 7, 2019. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





An Oxpecker picks the ear of an Impala in Kruger National Park, South Africa, Tuesday March 5, 2019. Oxpeckers feed on insects and ticks on giraffes, Impalas and other wild animals. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A dog in Travis Beals' team leaps after arriving in Shageluk, Alaska, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Friday, March 8, 2019. (Photo by Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP Photo)





Poppy, a female Crowned sifaka, inspects a photographer's camera in the enclosure at the zoo of Mulhouse, eastern France, on March 5, 2019. The Crowned sifaka is a critically endangered species from Madagascar. (Photo by Sebastien Bozon/AFP Photo)





A polar bear cub comes outside for the first time in the Copenhagen Zoo, Copenhagen, Denmark on February 28, 2019. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via Reuters)





A wild duck swims in Moshav Bet Zayit, Israel on March 2, 2019. Some of her ducklings prefer to ride on her back. (Photo by Jim Hollander/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)