The two weeks old pygmy hippo baby “Panya” walks with its mother for the first time into their enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, Monday, December 8, 2025. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





Cattle are left to graze and feed in millet fields that have already been harvested near Ndofane, Kaolack region, Senegal, October 14, 2025. (Photo by Andrea Ferro/AP Photo)





A reindeer frames the full moon in its antlers in Tromso, northern Norway in the first decade of December 2025. (Photo by Even Tryggstrand/Two Point O Media)





Macaques huddle in a hot spring during snowfall in Jigokudani Monkey Park, Yamanouchi, Japan in the second decade of December 2025. (Phoot by Joanna Wan/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Swans rest in the Kitakami River in the snow in Morioka, northern Japan, Thursday, December 11, 2025. (Photo by Hiro Komae/AP Photo)





The Golden Langur, a rare monkey species, is seen inside the Burapahar range of Kaziranga National Park in India, on December 14, 2025. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Roseate Spoonbill perches in the Orlando Wetlands in Christmas, Florida, on December 4, 2025. Like the flamingo, the spoonbill gets its distinctive pink coloration from pigments in the crustaceans and other aquatic animals it eats. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This handout photo realeased by Polar Bears International on December 17, 2025, shows a wild female polar bear and her two cubs, one of whom she adopted, at Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, on November 11, 2025. Researchers in northern Canada have observed a rare case of polar bear adoption, capturing video footage of a wild female bear caring for a cub that was not her own. “Cub adoption is relatively rare in polar bears. We've documented 13 cases in our study population over the last 45 years”,"said Evan Richardson, a scientist with Canada's ministry for environment and climate change. (Photo by Handout/Polar Bears International/AFP via Getty Images)





An owl takes a nap in its nest on a tree on the outskirts of Pushkar, India, on December 10, 2025. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A rabbit emerges from a flooded field in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Thursday, December 11, 2025. (Photo by Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





An aerial drone photo taken on December 6, 2025 shows flamingos at Qarun Lake in Fayoum province, Egypt. Large numbers of flamingos fly to the lake to overwinter. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A grey heron and gharial crocodiles bask on a sandbank of the Rapti river in Chitwan National Park on December 12, 2025. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





This handout photo realeased by Polar Bears International on December 17, 2025, shows a wild female polar bear and her two cubs, one of whom she adopted, at Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, on November 11, 2025. Researchers in northern Canada have observed a rare case of polar bear adoption, capturing video footage of a wild female bear caring for a cub that was not her own. "Cub adoption is relatively rare in polar bears. We've documented 13 cases in our study population over the last 45 years," said Evan Richardson, a scientist with Canada's ministry for environment and climate change. (Photo by Polar Bears International/AFP Photo)





Edinburgh Zoo’s first flamingo chicks for nine years have been named Douglas and Derek on December 10, 2025. (Photo by Edinburgh Zoo)





Two male Tibetan antelopes fight at the Changtang National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, December 3, 2025. Winter is the mating season for Tibetan antelopes, which enjoy first-class state protection in China, and are mostly found in the Xizang Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Bighorn rams in the Canadian Rockies are competing for females in the first decade of December 2025. Their horns, which often display damage from their contests, can weigh up to 14kg. (Photo by Mike Ashbee/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A red squirrel is seen feeding on a nut as reports of red species numbers being increasing on December 11, 2025 in Dundee, Scotland. Recent reports indicate that the geographic range of red squirrels in the Scottish Highlands has increased by more than 25% following a decade-long reintroduction project. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)





A puma rolls and yawns on frost-covered ground in Laguna Amarga, Torres del Paine, Chile in the first decade of December 2025, pausing briefly after several hours of rest before continuing on her way. (Photo by Sara Jenner/Solent News & Photo Agency)