A cheetah pounces on an African topi antelope before having the tables turned and being chased by the cheetah in the Masai Mara, Kenya cptured by Ann Aveyard from Ringwood, Hampshire on February 9, 2023. (Photo by Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency)





A black-and-white snub-nosed monkey is pictured at the Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkey National Park in Shangri-La, Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province on March 16, 2021. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An old male lion raises his head above the long grass in the early morning, in the savannah of the Maasai Mara, south-western Kenya on July 7, 2015. Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats, rosewood trees, pangolins and marine turtles will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later in 2022. (Photo by Ben Curtis/AP Photo/File)





In this September 2, 2019 photo, a silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira sits among plants in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Congo's Virunga National Park, home to about a third of the world's mountain gorillas, has barred visitors until June 1 2020, citing “advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the COVID-19 virus”. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo/File)





A hippo – descendant from a small herd introduced by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar – is seen in the wild in a lake near the Hacienda Napoles theme park, once the private zoo of Escobar, in Doradal, Antioquia Department, Colombia, on April 19, 2023. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)





A one-horned rhinoceros runs in Kaziranga national park, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, Sunday, March 27, 2022. The rare one-horned rhinos that roam Kaziranga National Park in northeastern India have been increasing in numbers, thanks to stronger police efforts against poaching and artificial mud platforms that keep the animals safe from floods. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Thirsty impala leap for their lives as a crocodile erupts from below the surface of a watering hole in a scene captured by the South African wildlife photographer John Mullineux in Kruger, South Africa in 2021. (Photo by John Mullineux/Media Drum Images)





Lions run striaght towards photographer Martin Anstee before stopping dead to eat thier meal right infront of him. Taken in Fuller Forest near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in 2023. (Photo by Martin Anstee/Animal News Agency)





The two female ostrich fighting as the chicks look on in the Nxai Pan National park, Botswana late January 2023. (Photo by Jannes Drotsky/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A giant 50-year-old elephant enjoying his twilight years despite being under 24-hour guard to keep poachers from his one hundred pound tusks in Amboseli National Park, Kenya in June 2022. (Photo by Clint Ralph/Media Drum Images)





The fierce battle between tigers Ganesh (male) and Krishna (female) taken by photographer Jayanth Sharma, who watched the fight unfold on a recent photography trip to the Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, India in April 2022. (Photo by Jayanth Sharma/Animal News Agency)





An elephant in Amboseli National Park in Kenya, June 2021. Gurcharan Roopra, 42, a Nairobi-born engineer-turned-wildlife photographer, has dedicated the past four years of his career to photographing these animals. He spends hours in his workshop camouflaging and encasing his equipment with protective gear before laying his camera in the path of lions, elephants, rhino, zebra and buffalo. (Photo by Gurcharan Roopra/Mercury Press)





This black rhino was unhappy to see two buffalo close to its territory in Kenya on September 2022, and charged to rid himself of the nuisance. (Photo by Paul Goldstein/South West News Service)





A serval cat is seen in tall grass at the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok County, Kenya on July 16, 2021. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





A rescued Pangolin named “Stevie” looks for food as part as his rehabilitation process in an undisclosed location on November 23, 2021. Pangolins are believed to be the most trafficked mammals. They're prized for their scales, made of keratin, like human nails, which are used in Asia for their supposed medicinal properties Only found in the wild in Asia and Africa, their numbers are plummeting under pressure from poaching. Pangolins are listed by wildlife watchdogs as vulnerable to critically endangered species. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio/AFP Photo)