Yellow-spotted river turtles (Podocnemis unifilis) are released in the Iguapo-Acu River in Beruri, Amazonas State, Brazil, on February 7, 2025. The project to protect the yellow-spotted river turtle is led by the research and extension program of the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and has already returned more than 70,000 turtles to the wild in its 10 years of existence. The yellow-spotted river turtle lives in many river basins in northern South America, including the Amazon River and the Orinoco River in Venezuela. (Photo by Orlando Júnior/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on February 7, 2025 shows Japanese macaques, commonly referred to as “snow monkeys”, taking an open-air hot spring bath, or “onsen” at the Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano prefecture. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)





An Olive Ridley turtle lays eggs as the mass nesting of the turtles begins on Rushikulya beach in Ganjam district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, on February 18, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Two white storks sit on their nest in Biebesheim am Rhein, Germany, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. (Photo by Boris Roessler/DPA/Picture Alliance/Getty Images)





A thrush feeds on a tree in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Wednesday, February 12, 2025, as daily temperature dropped to –3°C ( 26,6°F) in Estonia. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A crane stands on a water buffalo sitting in a field near the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq's southern city of Basra on February 8, 2025. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





An Allen’s hummingbird sits in her nest under the shelter of a tangelo tree in Placentia, California on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Bruce Chambers/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A squirrel eats food on a cold winter day at a park in Turkish capital Ankara on February 10, 2025. The rapid decrease in the air temperature in Ankara has negatively affected animals. (Photo by Evrim Aydin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) are covered in bright green slime due to cyanobacteria in the waters of the Salto Grande lake, an artificial body of water made by the hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, near Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP Photo)





Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) are covered in bright green slime due to cyanobacteria in the waters of the Salto Grande lake, an artificial body of water made by the hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, near Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP Photo)





A mandarin duck at the water's edge in Dublin's Botanic gardens on Thursday, February 6, 2025. Native to east Asia, mandarins were brought to Britain and Ireland from China in the middle of the 18th Century. Some of them escaped or were released from wildfowl collections during the 1930s. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)





A wild Short-eared owl hunting for food during the morning sunshine over grassland near Deal in Kent, UK on Tuesday, February 18, 2024. Short-eared owls mainly hunt during the daytime, flying low over moorland, grassland and saltmarshes where they feed on field voles and small birds. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)





These foxes enjoy playing in the snow as they chase each other through the fluffy white stuff. The pair of red foxes were spotted having fun in New York, USA in the second decade of February 2025. (Photo by Gavin Lam/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A rhino runs through the misty morning sunrise at the Solio reserve in Mwiga, Kenya in January 2025. (Photo by Gurcharan Roopra/Media Drum Images)





A couple of White-tailed eagles fight while hunting at the Bosfor Vostochny channel in Vladivostok, Russian far east, Monday, February 10, 2025. (Photo by Anton Balashov/AP Photo)





A pair of red junglefowl fight over territory in Pasir Ris Park, Singapore in the second decade of February 2025. (Photo by Liew Tong Leng/Solent News)





A mother toque macaque (Macaca sinica) carries her baby on the public road in Habarana, Sri Lanka, on February 7, 2025. (Photo by Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as simply as the starling in Great Britain and Ireland, and as European starling in North America, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae, is seen in Izmir, Turkiye on February 12, 2025. Starlings soar in the sky in flocks at some times of the year, and from time to time they perform a dance show with their simultaneous movements. Starlings, one of the songbirds, are known for the white spots that appear on their feathers from time to time. The beaks of starlings turn yellow in summer and black in winter. (Photo by Mahmut Serdar Alakus /Anadolu via Getty Images)





A juvenile elephant playfully charges at visitors inside the Ol Pejeta conservancy, Laikipia county, on February 6, 2025. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





An osprey and a pelican tussle over a meal of a Crevalle jack in the Sebastian Inlet state park on Florida’s Atlantic shore in the first decade of February 2025. (Photo by Wanghan Li/Solent News)