A cygnet keeps snug under its mother’s wing at Heronry Pond in Wanstead Park in east London in the last decade of May 2024. (Photo by Jeff Moore/The Times)

An Indian one-horned rhinoceros grazes on a dry wetland at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River in Morigaon district of India's Assam state on April 4, 2025. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)

A pair of alpacas at a British farm in Dorchester, Dorset on October 9, 2024 pose together at the perfect time to conjure up a creature straight out of Dr Dolittle's imagination. (Phoot by MaxWillcock/Bournemouth News)

A squirrel fights for its life in the bill of a great blue heron at the Mission Trails Regional Park in California in the second decade of April 2025. (Phoot by Decker Nomura/Solent News & Photo Agency)

A tired-looking Javan Fish Owl. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 5th December 1973

A palm squirrel and ring-rosed parakeet compete for space on a stump in a residential area of Chandigarh, India in the last decade of August 2024. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Solent News)

A golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopitheque de Roxelane) looks through its enclosure after quarantine during its presentation at the Beauval Zoopark in Saint-Aignan Central France, on May 7, 2025. ZooParc de Beauval (Loir-et-Cher) welcomed three golden snub-nosed monkeys on April 3, 2025, an endangered species from China, as part of a conservation program, becoming the first zoo outside Asia to house these long-haired, red-furred primates with bluish faces. (Photo by Guillaume Souvant/AFP Photo)

A common gallinule runs across the water to escape a nearby alligator at Green Cay Nature Center in Boynton Beach, Florida on September 4, 2025. Unlike most waterbirds, gallinules have long toes that allow them to walk on floating vegetation. The species is known for its loud, cackling calls that often echo through wetlands. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)