A racoon jumps over a fence in almost deserted Central Park in Manhattan on April 16, 2020 in New York City. Gone are the softball games, horse-drawn carriages and hordes of tourists. In their place, pronounced birdsong, solitary walks and renewed appreciation for Central Park's beauty during New York's coronavirus lockdown. The 843-acre (341-hectare) park – arguably the world's most famous urban green space – normally bustles with human activity as winter turns to spring, but this year due to Covid-19 it's the wildlife that is coming out to play. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP Photo)





A white-bellied pangolin which was rescued from local animal traffickers is seen at the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) office in Kampala, Uganda, on April 9, 2020. (Photo by Isaac Kasamani/AFP Photo)





A Romanian Christian Orthodox volunteer, wearing protective outfits, plays with his tomcat called “Trump” in the courtyard of a church on the Easter Sunday on April 12, 2020 after a religious service held within closed doors due to the social distancing rules amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP Photo)





An Israeli woman and her son watch a wild boar roaming at a street of the Carmel neighborhoods, in the northern city of Haifa, Israel, 11 April 2020. Reports state that wild animals feel safer walking around the streets of the cities as most citizens are staying back home in order to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. (Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA/EFE)





A mother and two wild boar cubs roam at a street of the Carmel neighborhoods in the northern city of Haifa, Israel, 11 April 2020. Reports state that wild animals feel safer walking around the streets of the cities as most citizens are staying back home in order to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. (Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA/EFE)





Sea lions are seen on a street of Mar del Plata harbour during the lockdown imposed due to the new COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Mar del Plata, some 400 km south of Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 16, 2020. (Photo by Mara Sosti/AFP Photo)





A worker feeds pink flamencos at the Botanic Zoo of Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Andalusia, southern of Spain, 19 April 2020, du​ring the enclosure due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Roman Rios/EPA/EFE)





Parakeets feast on fruit in Kensington Gardens in London, Britain, 18 April 2020. According to local media reports, wildlife in Britain is becoming emboldened due to less human activity as as result of coronavirus social distancing measures. Countries around the world are taking increased measures to stem the widespread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease. (Photo by Neil Hall/EPA/EFE)





Aurora, 7, who was tagging along with her journalist mother, reaches out to touch a giraffe after feeding them carrots and alfalfa, at Bioparque Estrella in Chapa de Mota, Mexico State, Mexico, Sunday, April 19, 2020. After having had to close its doors last month due to the coronavirus pandemic, the theme and safari park has begun selling half-price advance tickets online to raise money to feed its more than 2000 animals. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a handmade mask sits with her dogs Junkie and Zuzu near the Vessel during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, U.S., April 19, 2020. (Photo by Jeenah Moon/Reuters)





Marine mammals unit supervisor Danielle Fox and a sea lion named Malie stop to look at the elephants while taking advantage of empty zoo grounds, closed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to have a walk at Taronga Zoo Sydney in Sydney, Australia, April 20, 2020. (Photo by Loren Elliott/Reuters)





A red fox checks a pizza box on a promenade in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, April 17, 2020. Red foxes have been making appearances in Ashkelon, drawn out from the seclusion of the desert dunes by the coronavirus lockdown that has kept people off the streets. The animals, usually a rare sight in busy urban areas, have a biblical resonance. In the Book of Lamentations, the Jewish temple site in Jerusalem is described as so desolate that “foxes prowl upon it”. In the Mediterranean seaport, a family of foxes has become a regular feature – nosing through discarded food, and playing sometimes unfriendly hide-and-seek with dogs in a local park. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)





In this Tuesday, March 31, 2020, photo, a Nepalese volunteer feeds monkeys at Pashupatinath temple, the country's most revered Hindu temple, during the lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal. Guards, staff and volunteers are making sure animals and birds on the temple grounds don't starve during the country's lockdown, which halted temple visits and stopped the crowds that used to line up to feed the animals. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





This image released by World Press Photo, Thursday April 16, 2020, by Alain Schroeder for National Geographic, part of a series which won first prize in the Nature Stories category, Fahzren, a 30-year-old male orangutan, undergoes a routine medical check, at the SOCP Quarantine Centre, on 29 January 2019. He has spent most of his life in a zoo and lacks the skills to be returned to the wild. (Photo by Alain Schroeder for National Geographic, World Press Photo via AP Photo)





A hare runs along grounded Lufthansa planes at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, April 11, 2020. Due to the coronavirus Lufthansa had to cancel 95 percent of its flights. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Fox cubs venture out from their den under a popular boardwalk alongside Lake Ontario during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Carlos Osorio/Reuters)





People take pictures of Pelicans at St James's park, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 19, 2020. (Photo by Simon Dawson/Reuters)





Four does (female roe deer) roam past a gas station on a nearly-empty sidewalk in Zakopane, southern Poland, 16 April 2020. The European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) is endemic to the Tatra Mountains that straddle the border between Poland and Slovakia. The ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has sparked stay-at-home rules worldwide, which in turn have resulted in empty urban agglomerations that are slowly being reclaimed by certain wild species. Animals freely roaming around towns and cities they had previously avoided are becoming an increasingly common sight around the planet. (Photo by Grzegorz Momot/EPA/EFE)





Director of the zoo, Rodolphe Delord reacts with an hippopotamus inside its enclosure at the zoological park of Beauval in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher on April 16, 2020, on the 31st day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). (Photo by Guillaume Souvant/AFP Photo)





A firefighter carries a dog and a cat saved from a fire engulfing a slum area in Manila, the Philippines, April 18, 2020. Hundreds of families here were displaced Saturday due to the fire. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)