A wolf at an enclosure in Verden an der Aller, northern Germany. (Photo by Patrik Stollarz/AFP Photo)





A mountain hare sits on a hillside after a rain shower in the Scottish Highlands. The Scottish parliament voted on Wednesday to give the species special protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, which will make it an offence to intentionally or recklessly kill or injure a mountain hare without a licence. (Photo by Karen Miller Photography/Alamy Stock Photo)





A chipmunk (Tamias), part of the Sciuridae family, forages for food in Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Ryan Carter/Alamy Stock Photo)





Badgers feeding at the National Trust’s Dinefwr Park in Llandeilo, Wales, on July 25, 2018. Figures published this week showed 32,601 badgers were shot this autumn during the annual cull, the highest number on record. (Phiti by Graham Harries/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A deer is seen covered in bracken undergrowth as it prepares to clash with a rival during the rutting season in Richmond Park, west London, Britain, November 12, 2019. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





Bokiboky, a new mongoose species endemic to Madagascar, introduced last year at Marwell Zoo, Winchester. Each year, the zoo counts every single creature in the wildlife park as part of its licence. (Photo by Marwell Zoo/PA Wire Press Association)





Britain’s population of hazel dormice has halved since 2000, a report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species warned. A quarter of Britain’s native mammals are at imminent risk of extinction, according to the scientists who have compiled the country’s first official Red List of endangered species. (Photo by Clare Pengelly/PA Wire Press Association)





A red squirrel and a woodpecker having an “argument” over some nuts in a woodland near Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway in Johnsfield, England in September 2020. (Photo by Karen Crawford/South West News Service)





A mountain hare in the Scottish Highlands. (Photo by Melissa Nolan/Alamy Stock Photo)





A badger in Yellowstone national park, Wyoming. Badgers were an alarmingly frequent topic of conversation in the White House during the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng. (Photo by Barrett Hedges/Getty Images/National Geographic Image Collection RF)





A Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) called Pearl is seen in the Zoo of Coyotes in Mexico City, on June 6, 2017. Seven Mexican cub wolves born last April in the zoo represent a new hope for this species in danger of extinction, zoo Director Edgar Arturo Galloso told AFP. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





In this May 21, 2016 file photo, a northern sea otter floats on its back while crushing a clam shell with its teeth in the small boat harbor at Seward, Alaska. Sea otters, once wiped out by hunting along Alaska's Panhandle, have made a strong comeback and fishermen who target shellfish are seeking relief from their voracious appetites. Sea otters eat the equivalent of a quarter of their own weight each day. (Photo by Dan Joling/AP Photo)





Two desert foxes frolick on Judah Plain, Israel on July 25, 2019. (Photo by Shlomo Waldmann/Mercury Press)





A herd of goats standing on the branches of a tree. (Photo by Burak Senbak/Caters News)





This is the adorable moment a windswept arctic fox was pictured waking up from a long sleep. The photo shows the bed-head white fur and brown face cub waking up from a sleeping in a field in Svalbard, Norway. The youngster is seen yawning and stretching readying itself for its next adventure. In the winter their fur is white – whilst in summer time it changes to a brown colour. Professional wildlife photographer Kevin Morgans, 33, spotted the cubs on the last day of a two week trip in June 2018. (Photo by Kevin Morgans/South West News Service)