A Green Peafowl at the Royal Baths Park in Warsaw, Poland, 30 October 2023. (Photo by Szymon Pulcyn/EPA/EFE)





A heron walks amid plastic debris on the shore nearly three weeks after Hurricane Otis hit Acapulco, Mexico as a Category 5 storm, Friday, November 10, 2023. (Photo by Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)





Despite their sharp teeth, here is a golden jackal eating plant leaves in a forest without getting meat types of food at Tehatta, West Bengal, India on November 8, 2023. The golden jackal (Canis aureus) – the largest of the jackals – resembles a small wolf, but with a comparatively more slender build, shorter legs, and a shorter tail. Lack of food and shelter, and the pressure of urbanization have reduced jackals' habitat. An omnivore is an organism that eats a variety of other organisms, including plants, animals, and fungi. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A watchful pine marten on the Ardnamurchan peninsula on the west coast of Scotland was caught by wildlife photographer Ron McCombe in the last decade of October 2023. He said: “We waited all day, every day, for five days to capture them”. Although pine martens are widespread in Scotland, they are critically endangered in England and Wales. (Photo by Ron McCombe/Media Drum Images)





A male Tomistoma crocodile who was previously illegally trafficked, swims at the Los Angeles Zoo in Los Angeles, Friday, October 27, 2023. The Wildlife Confiscations Network is a new conservation initiative that is being led through a cooperative agreement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Tomistomas are protected by the Endangered Species Act, can grow over 16 feet long, have up to 84 teeth, and can live to 80-years-old. Tomistoma (Tomistoma schlegelii) are a member of the Crocodylidae family and inhabit the rivers and wetlands of South East Asia. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)





A griffon vulture flies over the sky after released into nature following taken care of Van Yuzuncu Yil University's (YYU) Wild Animal Protection Rehabilitation Center in Van, Turkiye on October 27, 2023. The griffon vulture, which was in danger of extinction and was found injured and exhausted, was released into its natural habitat after treatment. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A brown bear eats his catch while fishing for salmon early November 2023. Katmai National Park and Preserve in southern Alaska, which includes the elegantly named Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, is home to bears attracted by the abundance of fish. The nearest town (pop 307) is called King Salmon. (Photo by Yanny Liu/Solent News)





A newborn grey seal pup sleeps on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk on Wednesday November 8, 2023, as the pupping season begins at one the UK's most important sites for the mammals. Almost 4,000 baby seals were born on along the five-mile stretch of coast in Norfolk last year, making a record for the region. The seal population between Waxham and Winterton attracts thousands of visitors each winter as the young seals are weaned before re-entering the sea. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





This stag had just gone head to head with another stag. They do this to establish superiority and claim mating rights to a collection of does. “The dominant stag will often raise his head after a duel with a vegetation headdress to demonstrate their dominance”, said Jeff Penfold, 70, who had spent half a day taking pictures in Bushy Park, southwest London early November 2023. (Photo by Jeff Penfold/Solent News)





Wintering flamingoes are pictured at a nature reserve in Port Fouad, Port Said Governorate, Egypt on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An owl appears to offer a wing up to shelter another bird sharing a branch. The photograph of the pair of long-eared owls was taken at De Valk Roofvogels in Lunteren, the Netherlands in October 2023. (Photo by Ilana Koopman/Solent News)





Giant Panda Xiao Qi Ji hangs upside down from a tree in its enclosure at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, on November 7, 2023, on the panda's final day of viewing before returning to China. All three of the zoo's pandas are leaving for China by the end of the year, bringing at least a temporary end to a decades-old connection between the cuddly animal and the US capital. And while the pandas' departure had been expected due to contractual obligations, many can't help but see the shift as reflective of the growing strains between Beijing and Washington. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP Photo)





A pelican preens his feathers in front of low winter sun in St James's Park in London, Monday, November 6, 2023. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





An African buffalo is seen at the Chobe National Park in Kalahari desert at Kasane, Botswana on October 13, 2023. Chobe National Park is the 3rd biggest national park in the country. The park hosts various animals including mostly elephants, tigers, gazelles, giraffes. According to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) data, there are nearly half a million elephants around the world. Approximately 90 percent of this elephant population consists of African elephants. African elephants, which are the largest land animal in nature, continue to be the target of poachers across the continent due to the intense demand for ivory, which has a high market value. (Photo by Murat Ozgur Guvendik/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A darter bird showing off by flipping its dinner in the air only for the fish to be lost in the water in Chandigarh, India in the last decade of October 2023. Pictures show the darter bird successfully catching its dinner before flipping the fish over to go down its gullet the right way – until the fish escapes to live another day and the darter flops into the water in defeat. The darter is known for having a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and, like the cormorant, it hunts for fish while its body is submerged in water. It spears a fish underwater, bringing it above the surface, tossing and juggling it before swallowing the fish head first. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Media Drum Images)





A fallow deer, found in the truck bed by Turkish gendarmerie teams in Hakkari's Derecik district, is seen after taking under protection at Van Yuzuncu Yil University Wild Animals Protection and Rehabilitation Center Directorate in Van, Turkiye on October 29, 2023. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A brown anole lizard displays its orange dewlap at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on November 2, 2023. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





A baby orangutan called Barney shows off his dancing at Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia in the first decade of November 2023. (Photo by Syahrul Ramadan/Media Drum Images)





A trio of arctic foxes called Storm, Rosie, and Dena explore their new home in the 53 Degrees North Polar Reserve at the Peak Wildlife Park in Leek, Staffordshire, UK on Tuesday, October 31, 2023. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)





Snow geese are seen during their migratory movements at the Reservoir Beaudet in Victoriaville, Quebec, Wednesday, November 1, 2023. (Photo by Bernard Brault/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)