An osprey at Horn Mill Trout Farm in Rutland, England. (Photo by Christopher Cook/Alamy Stock Photo)





An immature male ruby-throated hummingbird perches on a fence in Searcy, Arkansas, US. (Photo by Donald Devine/Alamy Stock Photo)





Photographer Tanya Houppermans described one of the images she was able to capture as a one in a million shot. Photographed from beneath a sand tiger shark, the image shows the animal as it penetrates a bait ball of thousands of fish, the top half of its body emerging out of the grouping near South Carolina, US. In other images, Tanya, 44, was able to capture the sharks as the moved between what look like tunnels made within the bait balls. (Photo by Tanya Houppermans/Caters News Agency)





In this Tuesday, April 28, 2009 file photo, a Komodo dragon yawns on Rinca island, Indonesia. An Indonesian national park official says a Komodo dragon has bitten an overly inquisitive tourist who ignored warnings about getting too close to the enormous reptile while it was eating. (Photo by Dita Alangkara/AP Photo)





A snail (disambiguation) crawling up a plant stem on March 04, 2017 in Padang, Indonesia. (Photo by Riau Images/Barcroft Images)





Snow leopards in Russia’s Saylyugem national park are caught on camera trap. In the remote Altai mountains, cameras traps are shedding light on the secret lives of these elusive animals, enabling researchers to identify individual leopards in the first ever nationwide census. (Photo by Sailyugem National Park/WWF Russia)





Guillemots preen each other on a coastal chalk cliff full of seabirds in Flamborough, East Yorkshire. (Photo by Rebecca Cole/Alamy Stock Photo)





Several frog species carry their tadpoles to safe places. This picture shows a strawberry poison-dart frog (Oophaga pumilio) carrying its tadpole, looking for a safe orchid where it can put its new offspring. (Photo by Roberto García-Roa/University of Valencia, Spain/BMC Ecology Image Competition 2017)





African lions in Etosha national park, north-western Namibia. (Photo by Will Reynolds Photography/Alamy Stock Photo)





White Swiss Shepherd dogs “Kenai”, left, and “Yasu”, right, jump into the water during the dog diving competition at the International pedigree dog and purebred cat exhibition in Erfurt, central Germany, Sunday, June 16, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/AP Photo)





A low-angle view of cranes in the village of Khichan in Rajasthan, India, after the photographer Yashpal Rathore buried his camera in the ground underneath scattered grain to capture the birds feeding. Thousands of migrating cranes land in Khichan, flying from the east. (Photo by Yashpal Rathore/NaturePL/Solent News & Photo Agency)





An endangered silverback mountain gorilla from the Nyakamwe-Bihango family feeds within the forest in Virunga national park near Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 3, 2014. (Photo by Kenny Katombe/Reuters)





Kielder, Northumberland, UK, 2016. Young red squirrels, which are native to Northumberland, can regularly be seen in the woods and at the feeding station at Leaplish on the shore of Kielder Water. (Photo by Anita Nicholson)





This photo provided by Grandfather Mountain resort shows “Boomer”, right, a new bear cub playing with his mom, Carolina, an environmental habitat at Grandfather Mountain near Linville, N.C., Friday, April 22, 2005. (Photo by Hugh Morton/AP Photo/Grandfather Mountain)





In this February 21, 2017, file photo, Bao Bao, the beloved 3-year-old panda at the National Zoo in Washington, enjoys a final morning in her bamboo-filled habitat before her one-way flight to China to join a panda breeding program. China is planning to create a preserve for the giant panda that will be three times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. The Xinhua News Agency says the panda preserve will incorporate parts of three western provinces to provide an unbroken range for the endangered animals in which they can meet and mate in the interests of enriching their gene pool. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)





One of the worlds most endangered species could have a new super-cute saviour. Staff at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida have welcomed the arrival of a male clouded leopard kitten on 7th March to proud parents Yim and Malee, who arrived at the zoo in 2011 when they were six months old. Mother and baby are both doing well, with the zoos newest arrival tipping the scales at just over 500 grams already and showing signs that he will be able to walk in the next few weeks. (Photo by Caters News Agency)





16-year-old panda, Ye Ye, rests in an enclosure at the Wolong Nature Reserve, a conservation center that trains pandas for release into the wild. This image was published in the August 2016 National Geographic magazine as part of the “Pandas Gone Wild” story. (Photo by Ami Vitale/National Geographic Creative)





Published in our May 2016 “Yellowstone – America’s Wild Idea” issue of the National Geographic magazine, this unique image features a grizzly bear guarding a bison carcass from ravens. The articles take a fascinating look at the interactions between humans and wildlife in our National Parks and examine what happens when we protect spaces large enough for these animals to be free of daily human contact. (Photo by Charlie Hamilton James/National Geographic Creative)





German shepherd dog with aggressive expression, United Kingdom, 2016. (Photo by Nick Measures/Getty Images)





A goat stands in a tree. (Photo by Burak Senbak/Caters News)