Bujang, a 35-year-old male orangutan rescued from a circus in Sumatra, waits for food on a sanctuary island surrounded by a river where non-releasable orangutans are protected for life at the Samboja Lestari Orangutan Rehabilitation Center run by the non-profit Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation in Samboja, East Kalimantan, on July 12, 2024. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





A sea lion yawns on Sandfly Bay beach, in the Otago peninsula, on the outskirts of Dunedin on July 6, 2024. The New Zealand sea lion is one of rarest species of sea lion, and is listed as endangered in the IUCN Red List of threatened species. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/AFP Photo)





Grey-headed swamphens, chicken-sized waterfowl, are fiercely territorial. Mrinal Sen, who photographed them squabbling in Gujarat, India in the first decade of July 2024, said: “It was hard to say who won, but the hen on the right gave up in the end”. (Photo by Mrinal Sen/Solent News)





A wild monkey is seen sits at the forest in Sundarbans, Bangladesh on July 4, 2024. (Photo by Abu Sufian Jewel/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Three young barn owls huddle together in their nest near Carlby, Lincolnshire, UK on July 3, 2024. (Photo by David White/Picture Exclusive)





A squirrel holds a walnut in its mouth on a tree branch in Cukurca district of Hakkari, Turkiye on June 29, 2024. Having made a name for itself with cultural and sports activities, different events and photography marathons in recent years, Hakkari's Cukurca offers a unique visual variety to its visitors. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A colony of walrus delight a photographer as they pop up from the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean in in Svalbard, Norway in July 2024. (Photo by Michael Oliver/Animal News Agency)





A humpback whale breaches off near Iguana Island, Panama, Sunday, July 14, 2024. The whale-watching season runs from July to October, the time that humpback whales migrate to the warm waters off Panama's Pacific coast to breed and give birth. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





The long-eared owl (Asio otus) is seen on a tree in Kars, Turkiye on July 13, 2024. (Photo by Huseyin Demirci/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A very rare blue colored tree frog, which is normally known for its green color, holds onto a leaf in Karacabey district of Bursa, Turkiye on June 28, 2024. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Crocodiles startle a herd of impalas in the Sweni River, which runs through Kruger National Park, South Africa in the second decade of July 2024. (Photo by John Mullineux/Solent News)





An Andean-cock-of-the-rock, the national bird of Peru, seemed to be having a bad hair day while chasing another male after heavy rain at the Bird Paradise aviary in Singapore in the first decade of July 2024. (Photo by Frankie Low/Solent News)





A colourful fluffy coot chick swims in a lake near Rottweil, Germany in the first decade of July 2024. The coot chick’s bright plumage is a method of survival because parents tend to feed the brighter more vibrant chicks rather than the less colourful ones. (Photo by Silas Stein/DPA/Cover Images)





Picture dated July 8th, 2024 shows the extremely rare Leucistic Red Kite spotted in Wales, UK. The bird of prey is understood to have a condition called leucism – giving it a white plumage rather than the species' usual red. (Photo by Martyn Foss/Bav Media)





A young baboon receives an earful from an adult as another primate yanks its tail at Kruger National Park, South Africa in the first decade of July 2024. (Photo by John Mullineux/Solent News)





Bear cubs playfight in the forest of Loska Dolina, southern Slovenia in the first decade of July 2024. (Photo by Francesco Gambino/Solent News)





Atlantic spotted dolphins leap out of the water off Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago, Portugal on July 3, 2024. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)





Icelandic horses play in the outskirts of Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Monday, July 8, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Flamingos frolic in the summer heat of Porbandar in the western Indian state of Gujarat, even performing courtship dances as they prepare for mating season in the first decade of July 2024. (Photo by Hira Punjabi/Caters News Agency)





A zunzuncito hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) perches on the branch of a bush in the Hummingbird's House, on July 5, 2024 in Palpite village, Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas province, Cuba. The wings of the world's tiniest birds are a near-invisible blur as they whizz around tourists visiting a private Cuban garden that has become a haven for the declining species. The bee hummingbird, which measures five or six centimeters (two inches), is only found in Cuba. Still, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says it has disappeared from many areas due to forest loss. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)