Aquatic turtle hatchlings with painted shells are displayed for sale at the Friday market in Kuwait City on November 6, 2020. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A gorilla called Buu holds its newborn baby gorilla at their enclosure at Bioparc in Fuengirola on November 13, 2020. (Photo by Jorge Guerrero/AFP Photo)





This undated handout photo released by Mu Koh Lanta National Park on November 6, 2020 shows a hermit crab using a broken bottle as its shell along the shore of the national park in Krabi province. The real estate market for hermit crabs in southern Thailand has become so competitive amid a coronavirus-linked population boom that on Novembe 6, the kingdom's national park authority appealed for shell donations. (Photo by Mu Koh Lanta National Park/Handout via AFP Photo)





Pigeons are seen at Belgian auction house for racing pigeons Pipa in Knesselare, Belgium on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)





Hamish the polar bear tries out his new enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park at Branton, Doncaster on November 6, 2020, after moving from the Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland. Hamish was the first polar bear to be born in the UK. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Wire Press Association)





A woodpecker perched on a tree trunk in Ivanovo Region, Russia on November 4, 2020. (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov/TASS)





Sammy the seal, who has been a local celebrity throughout the year, has a stretch at Preston beach on November 10, 2020 in Weymouth, United Kingdom. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)





A grey seal with her newborn pup on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk on October 31, 2020, as the pupping season begins at one the UK's most important sites for the mammals. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





Endangered African penguin emerges from the water at Seaforth Beach, near Cape Town, South Africa, November 3, 2020. (Photo by Sumaya Hisham/Reuters)





Walruses on the Kara Sea coastline on the Yamal peninsula, Russia on November 2020. Scientists counted more than 3,000 animals there in October. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the species as “nearly threatened” in 2016, estimating the total number of adult Atlantic walruses in the world at 12,500. (Photo by Arctic Research Station of the I/Reuters)





Pelicans catch a fish in a pond at closed Prague Zoo amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Prague, Czech Republic, November 10, 2020. The zoo offers meal vouchers for people to contribute to feed its animals as a part of a fundraising project during lockdown. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)





An Indian gharial crocodile eats a fish in a pool at closed Prague Zoo amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Prague, Czech Republic, November 10, 2020. The zoo offers meal vouchers for people to contribute to feed its animals as a part of a fundraising project during lockdown. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)





A female Voeltzkow’s chameleon in Madagascar in November 2020. Researchers say they have discovered several living specimens of the species, last spotted on Madagascar 100 years ago, during an expedition to the northwest of the island. (Photo by Frank Glaw/AP Photo)





Macaque monkeys play with a face mask, used as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, left behind by a passerby in Genting Sempah in Malaysia’s Pahang state on October 30, 2020. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP Photo)





Icelandic horses play at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises early Friday, November 6, 2020. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)