Hawaiian monk seal Kaiwi and her newborn pup lie on the sand at Waikiki's Kaimana Beach in Honolulu on Thursday, April 20, 2023. Officials fenced off a large stretch of a popular Waikiki beach to protect the seal and her days-old pup. The unusual move highlights the challenges of protecting endangered species in a state that attracts millions of travelers every year. (Photo by Cindy Ellen Russell/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP Photo)





A female black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is flying frequent sorties to catch airborne insects at Tehatta, West Bengal, India on April 19, 2023. The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile colorful passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in tropical forest habitats of southern and south-eastern Asia. They are sexually dimorphic, with the male having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar (“necklace”), while the female is duller with olive-brown wings and lacking the black markings on the head. Populations differ slightly in plumage colour and sizes. These little birds are hard to find because it's roaming the forest ground level in dim light to catch insects and hide behind leaves. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A terrapin turtle peers out of the water at West Coast park in Singapore on April 11, 2023. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





A male wren constructing a nest out of moss and dried leaves as he tries to impress a potential mate in April 2023 in United Kingdom. (Photo by Andrew Fusek-Peters/South West News Service)





A fish realises it's not his day moments before being gulped down by a hungry kingfisher near the River Lark in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on April 11, 2023. (Photo by Ivor Ottley/Animal News Agency)





Crabeater seals are seen as Turkish scientists conduct fieldwork on Horseshoe Island within 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition under the coordination of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK) MAM Polar Research Institute with the joint responsibilities of the Turkish Presidency and Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology in Antarctica, on February 16, 2023. Turkish Scientists, left a minimum footprint on Antarctica, “Continent of Science and Peace” took up the role of life's guardians by averting harm to the continent's environment and its surrounds. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





White tiger cubs “Vyom” and “Avni” along with their mother “Sita” pictured inside an enclosure after they were released for public viewing at National Zoological Park in New Delhi, India, 20 April 2023. The two cubs were born in August 2022 and are the result of the first successful breeding of white tigers in seven years at the National Zoological Park. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A baby sloth uses his mother as a hammock while she feasts on papayas in Heredia province in Costa Rica in April 2023. (Photo by William Steele/Solent News)





A baby orangutan was captured displaying some unbelievable expressions while he was flopped on top of his mother's head in Jakarta, Indonesia in April 2023. (Photo by SyahrulRamadan/Media Drum Images)





A Sulphur-crested Cockatoo stretches it's wings at Coledale Beach on April 12, 2023 in Wollongong, Australia. One of Australia's most popular and iconic birds, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is a large white parrot. It has a dark grey-black bill, a distinctive sulphur-yellow crest and a yellow wash on the underside of the wings. (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images)





A cob horse for conservation grazing rests on the clifftops of Rhossili, Swansea, Britain on April 20, 2023. (Photo by Joann Randles/Reuters)





Storks stand in their nest during spring at Yesildag town in Beysehir district in Konya, Turkiye on March 27, 2023. (Photo by Seyit Konyali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A squirrel holds onto a tree branch at West Coast park in Singapore on April 11, 2023. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





A goldfinch appears to referee a bout between two others in a garden in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Ivor Ottley/Animal News Agency)





Runa, an African giant pouched rat, eats a treat of squash after searching and finding a pouch of chamomile tea during a presentation at the San Diego Zoo Thursday, April 13, 2023, in San Diego. Runa appears weekly in demonstrations at the zoo to show how her keen sense of smell can be used to find everything from illegal shipments of wildlife to landmines. She is one of a handful of so-called rat ambassadors showing off the virtues of rats at three U.S. zoos. (Photo by Gregory Bull/AP Photo)





A Rose-ringed Parakeet in a tree in a forest in Kathmandu, Nepal, 11 April 2023. Nepal is one of the destinations for the summer for winter migratory birds coming from the southern parts of South East Asia as well as from Africa and Australia, due to its favorable breeding environment. According to bird experts, more than 900 birds species have been spotted in Nepal. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA)





A crocodile dives behind the glass of an aquarium at the Dubai Crocodile Park in Dubai on April 17, 2023. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace/AFP Photo)





A muddy Atlantic Puffin is seen on the island of Skomer, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, Britain on April 23, 2023. (Photo by Rebecca Naden/Reuters)





Hyacinth macaws feed during a media tour of Bird Paradise, a new 17-hectare bird park that houses 3,500 birds from 400 species, at the Mandai Wildlife Reserve in Singapore on April 21, 2023. (Photo by Edgar Su/Reuters)





An expressive cheetah greets the sunset at Tiger Canyon game reserve in Philippolis, South Africa. The photographer is one of the contenders in the South African Photographer of the Year awards. Issue date: April 14, 2023. (Photo by Byron Grobler/Solent News)