Two zebras seen playing together at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve on December 11, 2016 in Pretoria, South Africa. Special animal encounters don’t only occur at big game reserves as they can happen anywhere and at any time. This was the case when Willie Kompagnie visited Rietvlei Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa. “I was just on a day visit to the reserve with my mother and father on the day. We met there to spend the day in the reserve”, says Willie. The family encountered a group of zebras that were across the road. Willie explains how at first, he wasn’t sure if the zebras were playing or fighting. “After a while I decided that they were playing as the remained together after the encounter and it did not really look aggressive enough for a fight”. (Photo by Greatstock/Barcroft Images)





This picture taken on May 13, 2014 shows a Siberian tiger cub eating chicken in its enclosure in Hangzhou zoo in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province. Latest figures show there are less than 530 wild Siberian tigers left in the world, with no more than 20 living in China, state media reported. (Photo by AFP Photo)





A baboon seen following a snarling leopard in an attempt to protect the rest of its troop on December 17, 2016 in Kruger National Park, South Africa. When there is a leopard and a baboon in the same territory and within a distance of each other, there is bound to be some trouble. Baboons are known to be fierce and at times are fearless of predators that prey on them. Leopards, lions and hyenas are among the animals that prey on baboons. When threatened, the male baboons in a troop would often be the ones to confront the predators. The website Out of Africa, describes the confrontation between the baboons and predators, where the baboons would form a line and strut in an intimidating manner towards the predator. This method of self-defence often puts the predators off. (Photo by Greatstock/Barcroft Images)





A leopard poses on a tree trunk in Kruger national park, South Africa. (Photo by Greatstock/Barcroft Images)





In this April 22, 2015, file photo, a male sage grouse struts in the early morning hours on a leak outside Baggs, Wyo. Scientists have completed an assessment of mineral resources on 10 million acres in six Western states the federal government is considering withdrawing from potential mineral extraction to protect imperiled sage grouse. (Photo by Dan Cepeda/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP Photo)





One tiger rears up on his hind legs as he moves in to attack the second Siberian tiger, on November 29, 2016 in Gela Nde, Sweden. Two endangered Siberian tigers fight for the affection of a female tiger. At Orsa-Björn Park in central Sweden, Orsa, photographer Ingo Gerlach was lucky enough to witness this brutal cat fight. While running a photo tour in the woods, which house kodiak brown bears, polar bears, european wolves and Siberian tigers, Ingo spotted these two cross tigers sloping out of the woods. (Photo by Ingo Gerlach/Barcroft Images)





A Cauliflower jellyfish (Cephea cephea) pictured on September 28, 2015 in Indian Ocean, Maldives. (Photo by Andrey Nekrasov/Barcroft Images)





Fishes swim in the tropical waters of a Polynesian archipelago, which provided inspiration for the Disney film Moana. (Photo by Valerio Berdini/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A frog is pictured in Anan Lake near Lebanon's southern city of Sidon April 9, 2014. (Photo by Ali Hashisho/Reuters)





Pelicans stand near the remains of a house formerly on Cedar Island, which now rests in a marsh off the coast of Wachapreague, Virginia July 20, 2014. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)





An Australian native animal known as a Ghost bat can be seen in this handout picture taken July 19, 2010. (Photo by Mark Cowan/Reuters/Department of Parks and Wildlife Western Australia)





A 33-month-old black rhino is seen at a game reserve near Cape Town, South Africa, January 8, 2005. (Photo by Mike Hutchings/Reuters)





A moeche crab is seen at the Venice lagoon, Italy, April 22, 2016. The lagoon of this canal-laced Italian city is a fishing mecca. For a few days every spring and autumn, it yields a very particular kind of catch and culinary treat. “Moleche” or “moeche” as they are called in Venetian dialect are young crabs that have shed their baby shells and have yet to grow their adult ones. The renewal process takes only a few hours – a small window during which the Venice Lagoon fishers cast their nets. (Photo by Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)





A Cattle Egret is seen near rice seedlings at a paddy field in Qalyub, in the El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, Egypt June 1, 2016. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





An endangered mountain gorilla from the Bitukura family, rests among vegetation inside a forest in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the Ruhija sector of the park, about 550 km (341 miles) west of Uganda's capital Kampala, May 24, 2013. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest borders the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The total population of mountain gorillas worldwide is estimated at 880, half of which are to be found in Uganda's Bwindi forest. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Nubian giraffes are seen in Murchison Falls, Uganda in this undated handout picture. (Photo by Courtesy Julian Fennessy/Reuters)





A lioness moves away from an elephant in Amboseli National Park, southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi, March 25, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





The fluke of a sperm whale sticks out of the sea as it dives among other resting whales off the coast of Mirissa, in southern Sri Lanka, March 29, 2013. (Photo by David Loh/Reuters)





An elephant breastfeeds its young one at the Amboseli National Park, southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi, April 25, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





Bonobo apes, primates unique to Congo and humankind's closest relative, groom one another at a sanctuary just outside the capital Kinshasa, Congo on October 31, 2006. (Photo by Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters)





A family of chimpanzees, donated by Sweden's Kolmarden Wildlife Park, are seen at their new enclosure at the Aurora zoo in Guatemala City, Guatemala on May 24, 2016. (Photo by Saul Martinez/Reuters)





A giant African pouched rat identifies a landmine during training in sniffing and detecting landmines at the Sokoine University landmine fields in Morogoro, Tanzania, September 16, 2004. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska in a March 6, 2007 handout photo. (Photo by Susanne Miller/Reuters/US Fish and Wildlife Service)





A golden eagle is seen during the opening day of the International Falconry fair in Guillena, near Seville, July 23, 2009. (Photo by Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)





Giant Panda cub Bei Bei is shown to the media at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington December 16, 2015. Bei Bei is four months old and weighs 17 pounds. (Photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters)





A giraffe runs in Amboseli National park, Kenya August 26, 2016. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)





Giraffes are seen in the Naboisho Conservancy adjacent to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya October 6, 2014. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)





A leech in quarantine is seen in a jar at the Ricarimpex laboratory in Eysines, Southwestern France, July 22, 2016. The leech, Hirudo medicinalis, is an invertebrate 3 cm long in adulthood which after being considered indispensable in the 19th century to cure many affections such as osteoarthritis, phlebitis, tension, then fell in desuetude while it harboured qualities that made it indispensable today in plastic surgery. (Photo by Regis Duvignau/Reuters)





A bald eagle sits in a tree in the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve near Haines, Alaska October 8, 2014. (Photo by Bob Strong/Reuters)





Berisi, a Malayan tiger cub, emerges from her den into the tiger habitat with her mother Bzui at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida, U.S. December 7, 2016. (Photo by Donnie Gallagher/Reuters/Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo)





Photographer George Turner spotted the baby turtle emerging alone from its nest and venturing down to the water in Costa Rica on October 19, 2016. (Photo by George Turner/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An elephant splashes at sunset in the waters of the Chobe river in Botswana Chobe National Park, in the north eastern of the country on March 20, 2015. African elephants could be extinct in the wild within a few decades, experts warned on March 23, 2015 at a major conservation summit in Botswana that highlighted an alarming decline in numbers due to poaching. (Photo by Chris Jek/AFP Photo)