Flamingoes in Laguna Colorada, Altiplano, Bolivia, South America in 2018. (Photo by Oksana Belikova/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

An upside-down pair of pants is seen atop a mound of snow, Wednesday, February 20, 2019, the result of yet another snow storm to hit Omaha, Neb. The latest winter storm dumped more snow on top of the existing snow, creating a problem of what to do with all the cleared snow. (Photo by Nati Harnik/AP Photo)

This hazel dormouse is being given a once-over by a disease risk team at ZSL London Zoo, UK in May 2025, as part of reintroduction programme. (Photo by David Levene/The Guardian)

Commended. In late May, about a quarter of a million snow geese arrive from North America to nest on Wrangel Island, in northeastern Russia. They form the world's largest breeding colony of snow geese. Photographer Sergey Gorshkov spent two months on the remote island photographing the unfolding dramas. Arctic foxes take advantage of the abundance of eggs, caching surplus eggs for leaner times. But a goose (here the gander) is easily a match for a fox, which must rely on speed and guile to steal eggs. “The battles were fairly equal”, notes Sergey, “and I only saw a fox succeed in grabbing an egg on a couple of occasions, despite many attempts”. Surprisingly, “the geese lacked any sense of community spirit”, he adds, “and never reacted when a fox harassed a neighboring pair nesting close by”. (Photo by Sergey Gorshkov/Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer)

People look at a loaded truck that got stuck in a sinkhole on a road in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, January 7, 2015. No injury was reported, according to local media. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A Hindu pilgrim feeds biscuits to an ox to seek blessing before heading for an annual trip to Sagar Island for the one-day festival of “Makar Sankranti”, in Kolkata, India January 10, 2017. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

A visitor kneels on the 180-meter-high and 300 meter-long glass-bottomed suspension bridge at the Shiniuzhai National Geopark in Pingjiang county, in central China's Hunan province, 24 September 2015. (Photo by Jiao Zi/Imaginechina via AFP Photo)

Festival goers in Finsbury Park ahead of the Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park in London, United Kingdom on Friday, July 8, 2022. (Photo by James Manning/PA Wire Press Association)