Animals

This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 901 at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, on Sept. 12, 2025. (E Johnston/National Park Service via AP)

A group of wild yellow-crested cockatoos perch on a tree in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, on Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

This image provided by the National Park Service shows the cubs 803s at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska on July 19, 2025. (C. Loberg/National Park Service via AP)

FILE - Mosquitoes cling to the inside of a jar loaded with repellent during a test as part of a tour of the Center for Disease Control laboratory in Fort Collins, Colo., on April 4, 2024. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Louie the spider monkey climbs on John Richard, a volunteer at the Gulf Coast Primate Sanctuary in Perkinston, Mississippi on Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

FILE - A firefly flies just after sunset at Tremper Mound in Rosemount, Ohio, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Shyam, the dog, shakes off water from his body after being bathed by Babu Tamang in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, July 13, 2025.(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

This photo provided by Re:wild shows the Barbados threadsnake next to a ruler, in the Scotland District of St. Andrew, Barbados, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Connor Blades/Re:wild via AP)

Joshua Herman pumps carbon monoxide into burrows dug by Richardson's ground squirrels along an apartment building on Monday, July 14, 2025, in Minot, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

This photo provided by the Smithsonian in June 2024 shows a prairie dog at the American Prairie nature preserve in Montana. (Roshan Patel/Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute via AP)

This image taken from video released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows a herd of elephants forming a circle to shield the two calves, Zuli and Mkhaya, during an earthquake Monday, April 14, 2025, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, Calif. (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance via AP)

In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in Madrid in 2023. (Angeliki Theodoropoulou/CSIC via AP)