A gull looks out from the dock in Tongoy, Chile in the last decade of January 2024. (Photo by Zuma Press/Alamy Live News)





A pelican prepares to catch a freshwater roach fish during feeding time at St James's Park in London, Britain, on February 2, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





Two giraffes roam around Nairobi National Park, on the outskirts of Nairobi, on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi National Park, located 7-km-away from the city, has wide open grass plains with a backdrop of the city scrapers, and hosts a wide variety of wildlife including the endangered black rhino, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





A hippo gives a ride to a hitchhiking heron at the Kruger national park, South Africa in the last decade of January 2024. (Photo by Anton Oosthuysen/Media Drum Images)





Native Australian Rainbow Lorikeets Trichoglossus Moluccanus perched in in a tree in Adelaide, SA Australia on February 1, 2023. (Photo by Aamer Ghazzal/Alamy Live News)





Baby nutrias are pictured after major snowfall in a park in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





A grey squirrel perched on a tree in a park, on January 23, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A view of an owl named Puhu, one of the wild animals found in exhausted state, due to lack of food or injured due to various reasons, by local people in Van, Turkiye on January 23, 2024. Puhu was taken Van Yuzuncu Yl University Wild Animal Conservation and Rehabilitation Center for treatment before being released into its natural habitat. (Photo by Yilmaz Kazandioglu/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Waxwing sits on a branch of a tree in Rize, Turkiye on January 26, 2024. For 15 years, bird enthusiasts in the Eastern Black Sea region, which serves as a vital corridor for bird life and migration, have been documenting the challenging journeys of migratory birds and capturing images of the species inhabiting the area. (Photo by Muhittin Sandikci/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A bald eagle is captured making a dramatic landing in the snow in Kachemak Bay State Park, Alaska in the last decade of January 2024. (Photo by Steven Blandin/Media Drum Images)





A chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) penguin is pictured at Deception Island, in the western Antarctic Peninsula, on January 24, 2024. Could a horseshoe-shaped volcanic island near Antarctica be the answer to the Mars enigma? With a fiery past still smoldering, remote Deception Island gives researchers clues to extraterrestrial life. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) is pictured on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





A hippo looks cute emerging from the water with greenery on its head, before shaking it off and letting out a ferocious growl in the Masai Mara, Kenya in the last decade of January 2024. Hippos, who can weigh up to 1,800kg, are responsible for 500 human deaths every year, and are the third largest land mammal in the world behind the elephant and the rhino. (Photo by Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency)





A monkey is seen after fresh snowfall in north Kashmir's Tangmarg in Baramulla district on February 01, 2024.The prolonged dry weather ends as Kashmir valley received rains and snow particularly seasons first snowfall in Srinagar.People across the valley had previously prayed Salat-ul-Istisqa (prayers for rain and snow) as the Kashmir valley did not witness rains and snow from a long time especially during the 40 days harshest winter period Chillai Kalan. (Photo by Faisal Khan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An Indian chameleon secures a snack in Vijaynagar, India in the last decade of January 2024. This species is known for its long tongue, feet shaped into bifid claspers, and a prehensile tail. (Photo by Dhruv Shilpi/Solent News)





A Mute Swan at Lodmoor Nature Reserve, on January 28, 2024 in Weymouth, United Kingdom. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)





A Kingfisher striking a ballet pose on a Firethorn tree branch were captured on January 20, 2024 in Scotland. The colourful bird can be seen struggling to hold its lunch between its beak while balancing on its perch at Kirkcudbrightshire, near Dumfries and Galloway. (Photo by Jock Elliott/Media Drum Images)





A sea lion rests surrounded by seagulls at the beach in Mejillones fishermen's cove, Antofagasta Region, Chile, on January 25, 2024. (Photo by Rodrigo Arangua/AFP Photo)





A Wallcreeper (aka Tichodroma muraria) flies to a flower on January 28, 2024 in Leshan, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by Zhou Zhiyong/VCG via Getty Images)





A golden pheasant rests in the petting zoo “La Casita del Avestruz” (“The Ostrich's Little House”) in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Gaby Oraa/Reuters)