A herd of wild Chincoteague Ponies make the swim from Assateague Island to the shores of Chincoteague as part of the 100th annual Chincoteague Pony Swim, which rounds up wild ponies for later auction, in Chincoteague, Virginia on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Reuters)





A starling sits on an Icelandic horse at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A stork stands on a straw bale on a field in the outskirts in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, July 21, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Fishing cat Saray (R) mothers her kittens at the La Fleche Zoo in La Fleche, western France on July 22, 2025. The birth of two male fishing cat kittens, which was announced by La Fleche Zoo on June 25, 2025, represents a significant step for the conservation of this vulnerable species. (Photo by Jean-Francois Monier/AFP Photo)





The powerful tail of a sturgeon propels the fish airborne, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Augusta, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)





A gosling drinks water from a puddle after a storm in Frankfurt, Germany on July 21, 2025. (Photo by Matias Basualdo/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Dinner is served for a newly hatched flamingo at Chester Zoo in the last decade of July 2025. (Phoot by Chester zoo)





A brown bear plays with her three cubs in the Alaskan wilderness in the last decade of July 2025, taking a break from foraging to tumble with them in the grass. (Photo by Donna Feledichuk/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Sea lions appear along the rocky shoreline of La Jolla, near San Diego, California on July 18, 2025. La Jolla is world-renowned for its sea lion and seal colonies, attracting nature lovers, wildlife photographers, and tourists alike. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A humpback whale breaches, drenching a boat full of tourists off the coast of southwest Alaska in the last decade of July 2025. (Photo by Laura Lyn Gregory/Animal News Agency)





This photo taken on June 11, 2025 shows water buffaloes grazing on aquatic plants in the seasonally dry peat swamp in Bangsal, South Sumatra. Indonesia has more tropical peatland than any country, but it is also quickly losing this poorly understood ecosystem. That affects local residents and wildlife but also has global impacts, because converted peatland can release vast quantities of planet-warming carbon dioxide. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A hamerkop bird hitches a ride on a hippo before being shaken off by the grumpy beast in Kenya's Masai Mara in the last decade of July 2025. (Photo by Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency)





Two male sparrowhawks fight over territory in Dumfries, UK in the last decade of July 2025. (Photo by Ivor Ottley/Animal News Agency)





Caretta caretta hatchlings crawl toward the sea after emerging from their nests on the beach of Davultepe 100th Year Nature Park in Mezitli district of Mersin, Turkiye on July 22, 2025. The hatchlings, which completed their incubation period in nests laid by adult turtles since May, were monitored by staff from Mersin University's Sea Turtle Research Center and volunteer students as they made their way to the sea. (Photo by Yakup Saglam/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A malachite kingfisher balances on a lily flower above the Chobe River in northern Botswana in the last decade of July 2025, using the elevated perch to scout for prey in open water below. (Photo by Charl Stols/Solent News & Photo Agency)





An anhinga flips a fish into position before swallowing it at Lake Eola park in Orlando, Florida on July 29, 2025. The birds use their sharp beaks to spear prey after diving beneath the surface. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A couple of jays squabble in riverside woodlands near Aberystwyth, Wales, UK in the last decade of July 2025. (Photo by Philip Jones/Alamy Live News)





A puffin swims underwater in search for fish off the coast of the Farne Islands in Northumberland, North East England in the last decade of July 2025. (Photo by Brian Matthews/Solent News & Photo Agency)





An antelope tries to avoid becoming dinner as it is chased down by a cheetah near the Oltepesi safari camp in the Masai Mara reserve, Kenya in the last decade of July 2025. (Photo by Ivan Glaser/Animal News Agency)





A humpback whale breaches in Guanabara Bay, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23 July 2025. The whales are following their migratory route toward the Abrolhos archipelago, where they gather to mate. (Photo by Andre Coelho/EPA)