Black-headed gulls feeding at Cuihu Park in Kunming, China on December 10, 2019. (Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media)





Hunter, a young Belgian Malinois, keeps an eye on Jazz, a nine-day-old giraffe, as orphanage worker Janie Van Heerden looks on at the Rhino orphanage in the Limpopo province of South Africa Friday November 22 2019. Jazz who was brought in after being abandoned by her mother at birth, is being taken care of and fed at the orphanage some three hours North of Johannesburg by Janie Van Heerden, seen right, and has been befriended by Hunter and its sibling Duke. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Hooded vultures wait for scraps of meat at Bissau's main slaughter house on November 26, 2019. Tens of thousands of Hooded Vultures folk to the city of Bissau to in search of food left behind in heaps of garbage or around market areas. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





A woman takes a picture of a squirrel eating a nut in Omsk, Russia on October 8, 2019. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A ranger reaches out towards female northern white rhino Najin, 30, one of the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, in her enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya Friday, August 23, 2019. Wildlife experts and vets say there is hope for the northern white rhino which is on the verge of extinction, after they successfully managed to draw eggs Thursday from the last two of the species, hoping they can be used to reproduce the species through a surrogate. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo)





An expert holds a rattlesnake after venom was extracted from it at the Butantan Institue – which supplies the Ministry of Health, with many snakes' venom for its ditribution countrywide – in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 12, 2019. In 2018 nearly 29,000 people were bitten by snakes in Brazil, of which over a hundred were killed. Most of the cases were in the vast and remote Amazon basin, far away from hospitals stocked with antivenom. (Photo by Carl De Souza/AFP Photo)





In this December 11, 2018 photo, shepherdess Genoveva Usnayo leads her llamas to a field to graze, on the outskirts of Santiago de Machaca, Bolivia. The decline in the traditional way of life in Bolivia's wetlands is noticeable, as young people leave behind ancestral customs in favor of taking a chance in the cities. “Now you just see elders and children herding the animals”, says anthropologist Carla Roda. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





In this January 13, 2019, photo, a wild boar scavenges for food while local residents watch at a Country Park in Hong Kong. Like many Asian communities, Hong Kong ushers in the astrological year of the pig. That’s also good timing to discuss the financial center’s contested relationship with its wild boar population. A growing population and encroaching urbanization have brought humans and wild pigs into increasing proximity, with the boars making frequent appearances on roadways, housing developments and even shopping centers. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)





A rescue policeman remains next to a five-meter-long sperm whale stranded at San Bartolo beach, in Lima, on August 20, 2019. Surfers and policemen saved Tuesday an injured whale which remained stranded some hours at a beach in southern Lima, police informed. (Photo by Ernesto Benavides/AFP Photo)





Locals carry a dead leopard which was killed after wandering into the city Kathmandu, Nepal, April 10, 2013. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A Bengal tiger ignores the attention of tourists trying to get a close-up at a national park in Maharastra, India. (Photo by Tanay Panpalia/Solent News)





A great tit eats food from the top of a photographer's hat as the press wait for politicians on Downing Street on December 16, 2019 in London, England. The UK's Prime Minister is set to hold a mini Cabinet reshuffle to replace outgoing ministers following last week's general election victory. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)





These heartbreaking photo show a confused family of elephants attempting to navigate a railway line built straight through their habitat on May 4, 2013. Taken by Biplab Hazra in Bishnupur, India, the images show the extreme lengths the inhabitants of the town go to to deter elephants from damaging their crops and property. As the images show, villagers often resort to extreme tactics in an effort to drive the elephants out. Elephants encroaching out of their habitats is an increasingly common occurrence with deforestation in much of India. (Photo by Biplab Hazra/Caters News Agency)





A fisherman with a close bond to cormorants uses the flock of birds to catch big fish in Li river in Guilin, China. The aquatic birds can be seen perching on a bamboo raft before swooping into the calm water to grasp hold of prey. (Photo by Julia Wimmerlin/Solnet News & Photo Agency)





(L-R) Sheila Bailey, Judy Brady and Clinical Director Cheyne Flanagan tend to a koala named Paul from Lake Innes Nature Reserve as he recovers from burns at The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital on November 29, 2019 in Port Macquarie, Australia. Volunteers from the Koala Hospital have been working alongside National Parks and Wildlife Service crews searching for koalas following weeks of devastating bushfires across New South Wales and Queensland. Koalas rescued from fire grounds have been brought back to the hospital for treatment. An estimated million hectares of land has been burned by bushfire across Australia following catastrophic fire conditions in recent weeks, killing an estimated 1000 koalas along with other wildlife. (Photo by Nathan Edwards/Getty Images)





Volunteers stand around flamingo chicks gathered in a corral before being fitted with identity rings at dawn at a lagoon in the Fuente de Piedra natural reserve, near Malaga, southern Spain, August 17, 2019. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





Diver Oliver Volz measures sea turtle “Speedy” during an annual stock take at the aquarium of the SeaLife in Timmendorfer Strand, northern Germany, on January 3, 2019. (Photo by Markus Scholz/DPA/AFP Photo)





Schoolchildren walk past wild sika deer on June 6, 2019 in Nara, Japan. Nara's free-roaming deer have become a huge attraction for tourists. However, an autopsy on a deer that was recently found dead near one of the city's famous temples discovered 3.2kg of plastic in its stomach and caused concern at the effect of tourism as Japan struggles to cope with a huge increase in domestic and international tourists. Alongside a growing Japanese tendency to holiday domestically, a record 31 million people visited the country in 2018 up 8.7 percent from the previous year, with many people now worrying about the environmental impact caused by such large visitor numbers. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)





A Palestinian man holds up a lion cub before children while posing for a picture along a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2019, placed there by a local zoo owner to promote the venue. The Rafah Zoo in the southern Gaza Strip was known for its emaciated animals, with the owners saying they struggled to find enough money to feed them. In April, international animal rights charity Four Paws took all the animals to sanctuaries, receiving a pledge that the zoo would close forever. However it reopened again in August with two lions and three new cubs, penned in cages only a few square metres in size. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP Photo)