View of the tail of a Humpback Whale at the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





19-month-old Orangutan baby Kendari and mother Sari are pictured in their enclosure at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, on January 24, 2024. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP Photo)





View of a gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguin with its breeding at the Paraiso island in the Gerlache Strait –which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 20, 2024. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel “ARC Simon Bolivar”, designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





A long-eared owl is seen on a tree in Beyobasi village, in which the population of owls has reached 60, of Sincan district, Ankara, Turkiye on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A black panther locks eyes with a photographer as it patrols a road at the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, India in January 2024. (Photo by Narayan Malu/Media Drum Images)





Royal white tiger, Mumbai is pictured with snow on its face at the Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)





A January 17, 2024 handout picture released by London Zoo on January 18, 2024 shows western lowland gorilla Mjukuu holding her newly born baby gorilla, at London Zoo in London. A critically endangered western lowland gorilla was born at London Zoo on Wednesday morning after a speedy 17-minute labour, the zoo said. Western lowland gorillas, which inhabit dense and largely remote rainforests in west and central Africa, are classified as critically endangered, with a high risk of becoming extinct. (Photo by Jonathan Kemeys/Zoological Society of London (ZSL) via AFP Photo)





A white-faced heron is catching a shrimp in a lagoon in Dunedin, New Zealand, on January 22, 2024. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A starling jealously guards a seed station in the back garden of the photographer’s Michigan home in January 2024. (Photo by Lisa Cavanary/Solent News)





A Himalayan monal is pictured in Shannan City of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A fallow deer in a frosty Phoenix park in Dublin on Thursday, January 18, 2024, as Met Eireann has issued a Status Yellow low temperature and ice warning for the entire country which comes into effect from 5pm this evening. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)





An Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchling releases into the sea at Lhoknga beach, Indonesia's Aceh province on January 16, 2024. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)





A kangaroo embraces her daughter at sunset on Kangaroo Island, South Australia on January 19, 2024. (Photo by Michael Oliver/Animal News Agency)





A dwarf kingfisher hunting and catching a gecko, to feed its young in Sri Lanka in the second decade of January 2024. (Photo by Dilshan Abdul-Muthalib/Media Drum Images)





A pair of pheasants have a kung-fu style fight, seen from a photographer's bedroom window in the frost – taken in Hessett, Suffolk, UK in the second decade of January 2024. (Photo by Ivor Ottley/Animal News Agency)





In this picture taken on January 19, 2024, a slow loris is seen in a box as International Animal Rescue (IAR) staff prepare to release seven slow lorises in the conservation area of Mount Koneng Halimun Salak in Sukabumi, West Java. The IAR is caring for some 115 confiscated slow lorises that were kept illegally through hunting and the animal trade, at a rehabilitation centre in Bogor, West Java. (Photo by Aditya Aji/AFP Photo)





A gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguin protects its newly-hatched chick and an egg that is yet to hatch at Paraiso Island in the Gerlache Strait, which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 20, 2024. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel “ARC Simon Bolivar”, designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





This handout picture released by Hugo Barros shows a white gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) specimen, affected by leucism, is seen at Chile's Gabriel Gonzalez Videla base in Antarctica on January 2024. As white as snow. This is the rare gentoo penguin specimen with leucism that surprised the Chilean Navy team at the Gabriel Gonzalez Videla Antarctic base in early January. “Last Thursday, January 4, we had the arrival of a very particular penguin, completely white”, Hugo Harros, cook at the scientific station located in the Bahia Paraiso Harbor Master's Office, in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula, told AFP. (Photo by Hugo Harros/Hugo Barros/AFP Photo)





View of a seal at the Gerlache Strait, which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, in Antarctica on January 19, 2024. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel 'ARC Simon Bolivar,' designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





View of a seal at the Gerlache Strait, which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, in Antarctica on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)