A humpback whale surfaces in the waters of Bahía Solano, Colombia, Tuesday, August 29, 2023. Every year the Colombian population of Bahía Solano welcomes humpback whales and the tourists who arrive to watch them as they pass through the Pacific. (Photo by Ivan Valencia/AP Photo)





Two starlings fail to reach a compromise as they fight over food in an image captured by Wouter Cardoen in his garden in Vilvoorde, Belgium in the first decade of September 2023. (Photo by Wouter Cardoen/Solent News)





A painted stork with its catch of the day in Bhiwan, India early September 2023. The painted stork is a large wader in the stork family. Their distinctive pink tertian feathers of the adults give them their name. They forage in flocks in shallow waters along rivers or lakes. They immerse their half open beaks in water and sweep them from side to side and snap up their prey of small fish that are sensed by touch. (Photo by Sadananda Koppalkar/Media Drum Images)





A white Bengal tiger, one of the endangered species, swims in a pool at a zoo in Borysew, Poland on September 10, 2023. The zoo opens a new swimming pool, which is the first one dedicated for these animals in Europe. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A sea lion appears on the shore of Bucalemu beach, Chile, in the Pacific Ocean on September 2, 2023. (Photo by Matias Basualdo/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A moorhen lands on the lake at Sefton Park, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK on Friday, September 8, 2023. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)





An European Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus), known for their maneuverability, sensitivity to sound, and fast running, looks for food at the field in Bursa, Turkiye on September 05, 2023. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A Grevy zebra (Equus Grevyi) foal gestures, in Rome's Bioparco zoo, Thursday, September 7, 2023. The Grevy zebra foal was born late Sept. 2/early Sept. 3, as part of a conservation project for this species threatened with extinction. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)





A cormorant looks on at RSPB Ham Wall on September 04, 2023 in Glastonbury, United Kingdom. (Photo by Harry Trump/Getty Images)





This photo taken on September 13, 2023 shows deer in the Rambouillet forest near Paris, France. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Little Egret, one of the rare bird species, hunts a fish at Alacati Wetland, which hosts more than a hundred bird species every year, in Izmir, Turkiye on September 12, 2023. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A fox runs on a small road in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, September 11, 2023. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Common ringed plovers, which are notable for their appearance and singing, roam in flocks in small marshes on the shores of the sea and lakes, look for food in Bursa, Turkiye on September 06, 2023. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





This photo taken on September 1, 2023 shows a one-day-old female Sumatran elephant by her 41-year-old mother elephant named Lisa at the Elephant Flying Squad camp in the Tesso Nilo National Park in Pelalawan, Sumatra. (Photo by Wahyudi/AFP Photo)





A cub growls in the ear of its mother at Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park in September 2023. (Photo by Linda Lester/Solent News)





A pair of fox cubs, which are about six months old, play-fight on rocks at a quarry in the Negev region of southern Israel early September 2023. (Photo by David Manusevitch/Solent News)





A polar bear cub in Wapusk national park, Churchill, Canada, is keen to play with its apparently reluctant mother in 2023. (Photo by Yuan Su/Solent News)





A seal sits on a rock in front of the “Ile aux moutons” island in front of Loctudy, Brittany, France on September 2, 2023. (Photo by Pascal Rossignol/Reuters)





A dolphin swims off the coast of Vitoria, Espirito Santo State, Brazil, on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Carl de Souza/AFP Photo)





A lion aped shampoo advertisements as it shook off water after a downpour in the Masai Mara, Kenya in September 2023. (Photo by Gren Sowerby/Animal News Agency)