A pheasant shakes its wings on an acre in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, early Saturday, April 27, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A two-year-old female orca calf swims in Little Espinosa Inlet near Zeballos, British Columbia, Friday, April 19, 2024. The calf has been trapped alone in the lagoon since its pregnant mother became stranded on a rocky beach at low tide and died four weeks earlier. A rescue plan involves trying to corral the female calf into a shallow part of the 3-kilometer lagoon, using boats, divers and a net, before she would be placed in a large fabric sling and hoisted onto a transport vehicle. (Photo by Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





Icelandic horses are driven to their paddock for the first time in the season in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Ducks swim in the water at Kugulu Park as daily life continues in Turkish capital during hot weather in Ankara, Turkiye on April 27, 2024. (Photo by Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A pair of great crested grebes in the last decade of April 2024 perform a courtship ritual in Katowice, Poland, which involves presenting each other with leaves and plant material. (Photo by Patrick Kurc/Solent News)





A grebe chick also known as a humbug due to its feather pattern is fed by its parent at Regent's Park in London on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Photo by Alister Gooding/Picture Exclusive)





A peafowl is seen at natural life park in Manavgat district of Antalya, Turkiye on May 02, 2024. Peafowls with their different types of colors attract people's attention. (Photo by Suleyman Elcin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A white-throated kingfisher tackles an oriental garden lizard mid-flight in Purbasthali, India in April 2024. Kingfishers usually catch fish but sometimes go for frogs, lizards and even crabs. (Photo by Tanmoy Das Karmakar/Solent News)





A brahminy kite in Odisha, eastern India, in the last decade of April 2024 caught a fish before having it snatched away by another bird. (Photo by Arnab Roy/Animal News Agency)





A field hamster peeks out of its burrow in Euskirchen, Germany on April 30, 2024. About a dozen captive-bred hamsters have been released into the wild there in the hope that this will prevent the species’ extinction. They are much bigger than domestic pet hamsters – even longer in the body than a guinea pig, although not as rotund. (Photo by Oliver Berg/dpa)





Migratory birds start their migration journey during spring as they prefer wetlands to spend the summer at Nallihan, Beypazari and Golbasi districts on April 9, 2024 in Ankara, Turkiye. The birds that spend the summer months here increase the natural equality of the city. Flamingos are also among the migratory birds. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A piggy back was perhaps not what this mother had in mind as she taught her cubs to swim at Lake Clark National Park in Alaska, April 2024. (Photo by Linda D. Lester/Media Drum Images)





A Spermophilus is seen on a pasture area during the spring season in Konya, Turkiye on April 30, 2024. Spermophilus, also known as ground squirrels, are one of the most common rodent species in the Anatolian steppes and prefer pastures as they cannot survive in wooded areas. (Photo by Alper Tüyte/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This aerial view shows hippos stuck in a dried up channel near the Nxaraga village in the Okavango Delta on the outskirts of Maun on April 25, 2024. A drought across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Nino weather pattern, not climate change, scientists said. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi have declared a national disaster over the severe dry spell that started in January and has devastated the agricultural sector, decimating crops and pastures. Scientists at the World Weather Attribution (WWA) research group found global warming had little to do with it. In a study focusing on Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique, researchers analysed historical weather data for the period from December to February – the peak of the rainy season. They found rainfall has actually increased in the region as the planet warms. But effective precipitation has remained the same, likely because higher temperatures lead to more water evaporation, they said. On the other hand, El Nino, a recurring natural weather phenomenon, brought fewer showers, increasing the likelihood of severe droughts, the data showed. (Photo by Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP Photo)





A curious trio of owl monkeys peep out of a tree hollow on the Marañón River near the city of Nauta, Peru in April 2024. (Photo by James Cai/Solent News)





This tiny sedge warbler is certainly brave as it squares off to a cuckoo five times its size in a real David and Goliath stand off in York, North Yorks, UK in the last decade of April 2024. (Phootr by Ian Douglas/Animal News Agency)





A Canada goose says boo to an osprey on the River Tay, near Perth in Scotland in the first decade of April 2024. (Photo by Dennis Gentles/Solent News)





This handout photo taken and released by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions on April 25, 2024 shows pilot whales stranded at Toby's Inlet near Dunsborough in Western Australia. Marine biologists raced on April 25 to save more than 100 pilot whales after a mass stranding on an Australian beach, with officials fearing many will have to be euthanised. (Photo by Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions/Handout via AFP Photo)





A brush rabbit checks for predators in Pacific Grove, California, US on April 18, 2024. (Photo by Rory Merry/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A peacock cartwheels in front of a crow in the garden of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Denis Balibouse/Reuters)