PHOTO COLLECTION: Insect and Animal Life
PHOTO COLLECTION: Insect and Animal Life
A Grey heron preening its features on a lake in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A Grey heron plays on a lake in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A tit feeds on ripe hawthorn berries in a city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A tit feeds on a fresh apple in the city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A flock of barnacle geese flies against the sunshine over the city center in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Cormorants sit on stones at the Baltic Sea in Niendorf, northern, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A cormorant gets a running start to take off from the calm waters of Northeast Harbor, Maine, at sunrise Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A ladybug walks up a plant in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A Peru Guinea Pig stands at an agricultural research farm where breeding animals are raised for distribution to farms across the country, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Peruvian guinea pigs, locally known as ‘cuy,’ have been traditionally raised for meat consumption since pre-Inca times. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
Pigs sniff the dirt at Jolene’s Retreat, an animal sanctuary, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Occidental, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Two storks stand in their nest in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A snail looks up as it carries its house on the back at a terrace in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Thursday Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A crow and a seagull fight for a prey in Tallinn Bay, Tallinn, Estonia, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A flock of birds fly past turbines at a wind farm, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, near Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A Stag in rut bellows in early morning mist Bushy Park southwest London, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A one horned rhinoceros and its calf graze in Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A bee and a sunflower are silhouetted against the setting sun in a field Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, near Lawrence, Kan. The field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws thousands of visitors during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A fourteen-pointer rests in the forest as rutting time begins in the Taunus region in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Emily, a new born Rothschild’s Giraffe, born on Aug. 11, 2024. stands in front of her mother Katharina, during a name giving event at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A spider waits for his prey at the center of its net covered by water droplets in the forest outside Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A stork stands in the nest in Wehrheim, near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A beetle basks in the sun on a city meadow in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Two cows and a stork stand in the drizzle on a pasture in the Taunus, Germany, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
Flamingos in their enclosure at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A sea lion is covered in sand on San Carlos beach in Monterey, Calif., Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
A fawn and its mother stand together in a forest of the Taunus region in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A bee flies to a sunflower on a field in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A deer walks on a road in the woods of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A lion cub, born on July 31, and mother “Indi” play in an area visible to zoo visitors for the first time, at Schwerin zoo, in Schwerin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (Jens Büttner/dpa via AP)
A visitor looks at male Hippo Tony, at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Seagulls fly over Al Arish beach, 50 km (32,5 miles), West of Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Al Arish, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Butterflies feed on flowers nectar in a forest outside Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A swan family watches Sunday walkers at Lake Baldeney in Essen, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Panda Yuanyuan eats her birthday cake for her 20 years old at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. Yuanyuan was a gift from China to mark warming ties with Taiwan in 2008. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng and her mother Jona are seen at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Giraffes roam their enclosure at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A raptor after killing a pigeon in a garden in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Deer cross a road in the woods of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Two storks stand in their nest in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Icelandic horses play at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A Grey heron preening its features on a lake in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A Grey heron preening its features on a lake in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A Grey heron plays on a lake in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A Grey heron plays on a lake in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A tit feeds on ripe hawthorn berries in a city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A tit feeds on ripe hawthorn berries in a city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A tit feeds on a fresh apple in the city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A tit feeds on a fresh apple in the city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A flock of barnacle geese flies against the sunshine over the city center in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A flock of barnacle geese flies against the sunshine over the city center in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Cormorants sit on stones at the Baltic Sea in Niendorf, northern, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Cormorants sit on stones at the Baltic Sea in Niendorf, northern, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A cormorant gets a running start to take off from the calm waters of Northeast Harbor, Maine, at sunrise Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A cormorant gets a running start to take off from the calm waters of Northeast Harbor, Maine, at sunrise Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A ladybug walks up a plant in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A ladybug walks up a plant in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A Peru Guinea Pig stands at an agricultural research farm where breeding animals are raised for distribution to farms across the country, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Peruvian guinea pigs, locally known as ‘cuy,’ have been traditionally raised for meat consumption since pre-Inca times. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
A Peru Guinea Pig stands at an agricultural research farm where breeding animals are raised for distribution to farms across the country, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Peruvian guinea pigs, locally known as ‘cuy,’ have been traditionally raised for meat consumption since pre-Inca times. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
Pigs sniff the dirt at Jolene’s Retreat, an animal sanctuary, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Occidental, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Pigs sniff the dirt at Jolene’s Retreat, an animal sanctuary, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Occidental, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Two storks stand in their nest in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Two storks stand in their nest in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A snail looks up as it carries its house on the back at a terrace in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Thursday Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A snail looks up as it carries its house on the back at a terrace in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Thursday Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A crow and a seagull fight for a prey in Tallinn Bay, Tallinn, Estonia, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A crow and a seagull fight for a prey in Tallinn Bay, Tallinn, Estonia, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A flock of birds fly past turbines at a wind farm, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, near Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A flock of birds fly past turbines at a wind farm, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, near Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A Stag in rut bellows in early morning mist Bushy Park southwest London, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A Stag in rut bellows in early morning mist Bushy Park southwest London, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A one horned rhinoceros and its calf graze in Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A one horned rhinoceros and its calf graze in Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A bee and a sunflower are silhouetted against the setting sun in a field Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, near Lawrence, Kan. The field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws thousands of visitors during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A bee and a sunflower are silhouetted against the setting sun in a field Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, near Lawrence, Kan. The field, planted annually by the Grinter family, draws thousands of visitors during the weeklong late summer blossoming of the flowers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A fourteen-pointer rests in the forest as rutting time begins in the Taunus region in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A fourteen-pointer rests in the forest as rutting time begins in the Taunus region in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Emily, a new born Rothschild’s Giraffe, born on Aug. 11, 2024. stands in front of her mother Katharina, during a name giving event at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Emily, a new born Rothschild’s Giraffe, born on Aug. 11, 2024. stands in front of her mother Katharina, during a name giving event at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A spider waits for his prey at the center of its net covered by water droplets in the forest outside Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A spider waits for his prey at the center of its net covered by water droplets in the forest outside Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A stork stands in the nest in Wehrheim, near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A stork stands in the nest in Wehrheim, near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A beetle basks in the sun on a city meadow in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A beetle basks in the sun on a city meadow in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Two cows and a stork stand in the drizzle on a pasture in the Taunus, Germany, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
Two cows and a stork stand in the drizzle on a pasture in the Taunus, Germany, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
Flamingos in their enclosure at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Flamingos in their enclosure at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A sea lion is covered in sand on San Carlos beach in Monterey, Calif., Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
A sea lion is covered in sand on San Carlos beach in Monterey, Calif., Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
A fawn and its mother stand together in a forest of the Taunus region in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A fawn and its mother stand together in a forest of the Taunus region in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A bee flies to a sunflower on a field in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A bee flies to a sunflower on a field in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A deer walks on a road in the woods of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A deer walks on a road in the woods of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A lion cub, born on July 31, and mother “Indi” play in an area visible to zoo visitors for the first time, at Schwerin zoo, in Schwerin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (Jens Büttner/dpa via AP)
A lion cub, born on July 31, and mother “Indi” play in an area visible to zoo visitors for the first time, at Schwerin zoo, in Schwerin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (Jens Büttner/dpa via AP)
A visitor looks at male Hippo Tony, at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
A visitor looks at male Hippo Tony, at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Seagulls fly over Al Arish beach, 50 km (32,5 miles), West of Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Al Arish, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Seagulls fly over Al Arish beach, 50 km (32,5 miles), West of Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Al Arish, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Butterflies feed on flowers nectar in a forest outside Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Butterflies feed on flowers nectar in a forest outside Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A swan family watches Sunday walkers at Lake Baldeney in Essen, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A swan family watches Sunday walkers at Lake Baldeney in Essen, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Panda Yuanyuan eats her birthday cake for her 20 years old at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. Yuanyuan was a gift from China to mark warming ties with Taiwan in 2008. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
Panda Yuanyuan eats her birthday cake for her 20 years old at the Taipei Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. Yuanyuan was a gift from China to mark warming ties with Taiwan in 2008. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng and her mother Jona are seen at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng and her mother Jona are seen at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Giraffes roam their enclosure at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Giraffes roam their enclosure at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A raptor after killing a pigeon in a garden in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A raptor after killing a pigeon in a garden in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Deer cross a road in the woods of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Deer cross a road in the woods of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Two storks stand in their nest in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Two storks stand in their nest in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Icelandic horses play at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Icelandic horses play at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.