Students from the Liceo Parini school celebrate the end of term in Milan, Italy on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Marco Ottico/LaPresse/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

National Geographic photographer Steve Winter has spent most of his adult life shooting wild cats. Photo: A 14-month-old cub, cooling off in a pond, is riveted by a deer that appeared near the shore. Tigers are powerful swimmers; they can easily cross rivers four to five miles wide and have been known to swim distances of up to 18 miles. (Photo by Steve Winter/National Geographic)

A spectator cools herself at a water spraying fan at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, January 17, 2017. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)

An orange oakleaf rests on a plant at the Taipei Zoo on November 26, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh/AFP Photo)

Actors dressed up as zombies walk around while posing for photos with passers-by in New York's Times Square on Friday, October 10, 2014 as a promotion for the season premiere of AMC's “The Walking Dead” this Sunday, October 12, 2014. (Photo by Gordon Donovan)

“I think as mothers we are all just trying our best”. – Gisele Bundchen. (Photo by Mads Nissen/AFP Photo)

Aurora Australis from Beerbarrel Beach, by James Stone. Runner Up: Aurorae. (Photo by James Stone/Astronomy Photographer of the Year)

South Korean rescue members wearing chemical protective suits walk past a monster character (R) during an anti-terror drill as part of a disaster management exercise at the COEX shopping and exhibition center in Seoul on May 20, 2016. South Korea is holding its 2016 Safe Korea anti-disaster exercise this week against terrorist threats and natural disasters. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo)