Flamingos in their enclosure at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, August 22, 2024. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)





Carretta carettas (sea turtles) walk on the sand in Akyatan Wildlife Development Area, the largest lagoon of the Cukurova Delta, one of Turkiye's internationally important wetlands, in Adana, Turkiye on August 14, 2024. Around 7 thousand hatchlings, which have completed the incubation period in their nests on the 22-kilometer coast, hatch from their eggs and meet the Mediterranean sea. (Photo by Eren Bozkurt/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An Ezo chipmunk sticks out its tongue at the photographer in the last decade of August 2024. Ezo chipmunks are a subspecies of the Siberian chipmunk found in Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo by Hiroki Takahashi/Media Drum Images)





A kingfisher is perching at RSPB Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve in Purfleet, United Kingdom, on August 15, 2024. (Photo by Action Foto Sport/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A seagull mugs a puffin for a mouthful of sand eels on the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland in the last decade of August 2024. Kleptoparasites such as gulls specialise in stealing food from other animals. (Photo by Mark Yeung/Solent News)





Two mother bears fight over salmon, clawing and punching each other to try and get the fish in Katmai National Park, Alaska in the second decade of August 2024. After all that, neither bear was the victor and some nearby seagulls were the lucky recipients instead. (Photo by Rich Brooks/Solent News)





A coppersmith barbet feeds its chick near Prambanan Temple, Indonesia in the second decade of August 2024. These birds are named for their metronomic call that sounds similar to a copper sheet being beaten. (Photo by Dzul Dzulfikri/Media Drum Images)





A black swan cools off at the fountain in Kugulu Park (Swan Park) on a hot summer day in Turkish capital Ankara on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Camels are seen as the Rendille people, a nomadic-pastoralist community living in the country's arid northern regions, continues to maintain their traditional lifestyle in Kargi village, located in Kenya's Marsabit County, on August 27, 2024. The Rendille people sustain their livelihoods through the herding of camels, cattle, sheep, and goats. Known for their expertise in animal husbandry, the Rendille are often referred to as 'Holders of the Stick of God' and are also noted for their colorful traditional clothing and jewelry. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A hummingbird flies in the town of Mindo, in the Andean Choco, Ecuador, 17 August 2024. Residents and activists in Choco Andino, a biosphere reserve located near the Ecuadorian capital, demanded that the State review mining concessions in that territory, in compliance with a national referendum a year ago that banned metal mining in that area. (Photo by Jose Jacome/EPA/EFE)





A painted turtle with a shell covered with a thin layer of mud suns itself on the concrete bridge abutment where it slopes in to the water of Evergreen Lake, Illinois on August 16, 2024. (Photo by Alan Look/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A pelican is seen at Lake Ercek, located within the borders of Van's Ipekyolu and Tusba districts and 20 kilometers east of Lake Van, in Van, Turkiye on August 18, 2024. Declared in 2020 as a 'sensitive area to be strictly protected' by the Turkish Presidency, the lake stands out as the accommodation and breeding place of more than 200 bird species, both local bird species and migratory species. After resting for two days at Lake Ercek, which is not on its migration route, a pelican continued its journey. (Photo by Ali Ihsan Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A young Great Crested Grebe feeds on fish caught by one of its parents in the Docklands, East London on August 23, 2024. (Photo by Victoria Jones/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A rufous-vented chachalaca (Ortalis ruficauda) is pictured in Caracas on August 15, 2024. The rufous-vented chachalaca is a member of an ancient group of birds of the family Cracidae found in northeastern Colombia, northern Venezuela and Tobago. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





A king eider sea duck tackles a prickly dinner of sea urchin on a lake in Batsfjord, Norway in the last decade of August 2024. The drake’s breeding plumage consists of a distinctive powder-blue head and neck, orange frontal lobe and a red bill. (Photo by Mia Surakka/Solent News)





In between hunting for salmon on their annual run upstream from the ocean to gravel beds to lay eggs, bears shake the water off their fur, at Katami National Park in Alaska, US in the last decade of August 2024. (Photo by Wei Lian/Solent News)





A Kingfisher catches a fish on the Avalon Marshes, Somerset, UK on Wednesday, August 28 2024. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)





Great Spotted Woodpecker are among the many bird species found in Camkoru Nature Park, located within the borders of Ankara's Camlidere district, Turkiye on August 09, 2024. The park stands out for its rich vegetation and biodiversity, featuring a forested area with natural Scots pine and black pine trees, which provide a habitat for both raptors and songbirds. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A handout photo made available by Four Paws global animal welfare organization on 21 August 2024 shows a close-up on former circus and zoo elephant, Charley, after arriving at his new 'retirement' home at Shambala Private Game Reserve in Limpopo, South Africa. Four Paws organization, Elizabeth Margaret Steyn (EMS) Foundation and Shambala Private Game Reserve collaborated for the retirement of Charley, a 42-year-old African elephant, to the 10,000-hectare Shambala Reserve in Limpopo, a Four Paws statement reads. Charley was captured in Zimbabwe, brought to South African circus in 1984 before being transferred to Pretoria's National Zoological Garden zoo in 2001. Charley's retirement and relocation in Shambala is the first step in his transition and reintegration into a natural environment. (Photo by Four Paws Handout/EPA/EFE)





Young giraffe named Emily interacts with her mother in their enclosure during a name-giving event at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on August 22 2024. (Photo by Ralf Hirschberger/AFP Photo)