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Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands and other areas including the most developed urban areas, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that much wildlife is affected by human activities.
Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social, and moral sense. Some animals, however, have adapted to suburban environments. This includes such animals as domesticated cats, dogs, mice, and gerbils. Some religions declare certain animals to be sacred, and in modern times concern for the natural environment has provoked activists to protest against the exploitation of wildlife for human benefit or entertainment.
The global wildlife population has decreased by 52 percent between 1970 and 2014, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife)
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  • Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus

    Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus

    A young exemplar of a European roe deer popping up from a cultivated field o cereals located around the Hasenmoor protected area. The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer. The male of the species is sometimes referred to as a roebuck. The roe is a small deer, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapted to cold environments. The species is widespread in Europe, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from Scotland to the Caucasus, and east to northern Iran and Iraq | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Family of Canada geese

    Family of Canada geese

    Family of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) roaming around the Halloher Gehege forest area in Northern Germany. Canada geese are especially protective animals, and will sometimes attack any animal nearing their territory or offspring, including humans. Although parents are hostile to unfamiliar geese, they may form groups of a number of goslings and a few adults, called crèches | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Canada goose (Branta canadensis)

    Canada goose (Branta canadensis)

    The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern Europe. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany in the 18th century. Canada geese are naturally migratory with the wintering range being most of the United States however most European populations are not migratory. Like most geese, the Canada goose is primarily herbivorous and normally migratory; often found on or close to fresh water, the Canada goose is also common in brackish marshes, estuaries, and lagoons | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Baby exemplar of European toad  (Bufo bufo)

    Baby exemplar of European toad (Bufo bufo)

    The common toad, European toad, or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the toad (Bufo bufo) is a frog found throughout most of Europe (with the exception of Ireland, Iceland, and some Mediterranean islands), in the western part of North Asia, and in a small portion of Northwest Africa. It is one of a group of closely related animals that are descended from a common ancestral line of toads and which form a species complex. The toad is an inconspicuous animal as it usually lies hidden during the day. It becomes active at dusk and spends the night hunting for the invertebrates on which it feeds. It moves with a slow, ungainly walk or short jumps, and has greyish-brown skin covered with wart-like lumps | Halloher Gegehe, Schleswig-Holstein | July 2022 |

  • Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

    Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)

    A grey heron (Ardea cinerea) standing in a pond located around the Halloher Moor, Brandsheide and Könster Moor protected area in Norther Germany. The grey heron is a long-legged wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows. In Ancient Egypt, the deity Bennu was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork while in Ancient Rome, the heron was a bird of divination | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • European peacock (Aglais io)

    European peacock (Aglais io)

    ⚫️🔴🟠🔵🦋 The European peacock (Aglais io) more commonly known simply as the peacock butterfly, is a colourful butterfly, found in Europe and temperate Asia as far east as Japan. It was formerly classified as the only member of the genus Inachis (the name is derived from Greek mythology, meaning Io, the daughter of Inachus. The peacock butterfly is resident in much of its range, often wintering in buildings or trees. It therefore often appears quite early in spring | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

    Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

    ⚫️⚪️🟠🦋 The red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) is a well-characterized, medium-sized butterfly with black wings, red bands, and white spots. This butterfly is widely distributed across temperate regions of North Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. It resides in warmer areas, but migrates north in spring and sometimes again in autumn | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)

    Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)

    ⚫️🟠🟡🔵🦋 The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) is a colourful Eurasian butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Adults feed on nectar and may hibernate over winter; in warmer climates they may have two broods in a season. While the dorsal surface of the wings is vividly marked, the ventral surface is drab, providing camouflage. It is a medium-sized butterfly that is mainly reddish orange, with black and yellow markings on the forewings as well as a ring of blue spots around the edge of the wings | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Common cranes (Grus grus)

    Common cranes (Grus grus)

    Two adults and one juvenile exemplars of common crane (Grus grus) standing in a recently harvested cereals field in the early morning hours at the Hasenmoor, a marshy wetlands area north of Hamburg. Also known as the Eurasian crane, it is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. This species is slate-grey overall. The forehead and lores are blackish with a bare red crown and a white streak extending from behind the eyes to the upper back. The overall colour is darkest on the back and rump and palest on the breast and wings. The juvenile has yellowish-brown tips to its body feathers and lacks the drooping wing feathers and the bright neck pattern of the adult, and has a fully feathered crown. It breeds in treeless moors, on bogs, or on dwarf heather habitats, usually where small lakes or pools are also found, while in Germany, marshy wetlands are also used | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Tiny Spider

    Tiny Spider

    A recently opened Dipladenia's flower, also known as Mandevilla, is housing a tiny spider | Hamburg - Germany | July 2022 |

  • European honey bee (Apis mellifera)

    European honey bee (Apis mellifera)

    A European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is collecting nectar from a flowering lavender plant. When a bee lands on a flower, the hairs all over the bee's body attract pollen grains through electrostatic forces. Stiff hairs on their legs enable them to groom the pollen into specialised brushes or pockets on their legs or body, and then carry it back to their nest | Hamburg - Germany | July 2022 |

  • European hare (Lepus europaeus)

    European hare (Lepus europaeus)

    Adult hare shot at the edge of a corn field. The European hare (Lepus europaeus), also known as the brown hare, is a species of hare native to Europe and parts of Asia. It is among the largest hare species and is adapted to temperate, open country. Hares are herbivorous and feed mainly on grasses and herbs, supplementing these with twigs, buds, bark and field crops, particularly in winter. Their natural predators include large birds of prey, canids and felids. They rely on high-speed endurance running to escape predation, having long, powerful limbs and large nostrils | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

    Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

    The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). It is native to Asia and parts of Europe like the northern foothills of the Caucasus and the Balkans. It has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. In parts of its range, namely in places where none of its relatives occur such as in Europe, where it is naturalised, it is simply known as the "pheasant". Unfortunately, the common pheasant is one of the world's most hunted birds;[5] it has been introduced for that purpose to many regions, and is also common on game farms where it is commercially bred | Hasenmoor, Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | June 2022 |

  • Catch me if you can!

    Catch me if you can!

    European hare (Lepus europaeus) are generally nocturnal and shy in nature but they change their behaviour in the spring, when they can be seen in broad daylight chasing one another around in fields. During this spring frenzy, they sometimes strike one another boxing with their paws | Hasenmoor, Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | July 2022 |

  • White stork (Ciconia ciconia)

    White stork (Ciconia ciconia)

    White stork foraging on a recently reaped field. As storks usually avoid areas overgrown with tall grass and shrub, it is very common to see them during the harvesting season, staying very close areas in which the harvesting is going on. The white stork is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm wingspan. The white stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends for soaring do not form over water | Hasenmoor, Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | June 2022 |

  • Juvenile dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates mechowi)

    Juvenile dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates mechowi)

    The dark chanting goshawk (Melierax metabates mechowi) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which is found across south eastern Gabon to Angola, south Tanzania south to northern Namibia and north eastern South Africa. The dark chanting goshawk is a medium-sized, bulky hawk with an upright stance. The head, breast and upperparts are essentially dark grey, while the underparts, other than the breast, are white, finely barred with black. The wing primaries are black, and the tail has broad black and white bars. The cere and the long legs are orange-red. The female is, on average, larger than the male, weighing up to 840g to the male's maximum weight of 700g. Juveniles tend to have browner plumage reminiscent in colour and pattern to a buzzard Buteo species but with the broad winged, long tailed silhouette of an accipiter | Hobatere Concession - Namibia | February 2016 |

  • Hartmann's mountain zebras (Equus zebra hartmannae)

    Hartmann's mountain zebras (Equus zebra hartmannae)

    🦓🦓🦓 A herd of Hartmann's mountain zebras taken at the golden hour at the edge of the Naukluft Mountains, a mountain range in central Namibia. The southern part of the mountain range forms the easternmost part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park. The northern mountains are occupied by privately held farms. They are known for their wildlife, including mountain zebras and leopards. The mountains have many small streams and waterfalls. Hartmann's zebra is a subspecies of the mountain zebra, generally found in far south-western Angola and western Namibia. Hartmann's mountain zebras prefer to live in small groups of 7-12 individuals. They are agile climbers and are able to live in arid conditions and steep mountainous country | Namib Desert - Namibia | February 2016 |

  • Gemsbok (Oryx gazella)

    Gemsbok (Oryx gazella)

    The gemsbok, gemsbuck or South African oryx (Oryx gazella) is a large antelope in the genus Oryx. It is native to the arid regions of Southern Africa, such as the Kalahari Desert. The name gemsbok is from Afrikaans, which itself is from the Dutch word of the same spelling, meaning "male chamois", composed of gems (“chamois”) + bok (“buck, male goat”). This adult exemplar was standing at the road side of one of the main road edging the Namib-Naukluft National Park | Namib Desert - Namibia | February 2016 |

  • Juvenile Common Blackbird (Turdus merula)

    Juvenile Common Blackbird (Turdus merula)

    🟤🔴🟢 Juvenile Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) hanging on a tree full of red fruits in the Haseldorfer Marsh countryside | Schleswig-Holstein - Germany | October 2020

  • Ndakasi

    Ndakasi

    🦍🇨🇩 @virunganationalpark recently announced the loss of their beloved Ndakasi who spent more than 13 years at the Senkwekwe Center, under the care of the iconic Andre Bauma and the other caregivers of the center. I had the opportunity to meet Andre in 2017 and to see him and his team feeding Ndaksi and the other fellow gorillas at the facility in Rumangabo | Virunga National Park - Congo DR | May 2017

  • Mediterranean countryside

    Mediterranean countryside

    🐑🐑🐑 Mediterranean countryside in Andratx, a small village located at the foothill of the Serra de Tramuntana mountain region | Mallorca - Spain | April 2021|

  • Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)

    Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)

    🐿 Sometimes you do not need to travel far to see wildlife, it is served just in front of your window. This Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is roaming the neighbourhood in search for hazelnuts and chestnuts to prepare himself for the cold season I Hamburg - Germany I September 2020 |

  • Red deer (Cervus elaphus)

    Red deer (Cervus elaphus)

    🦌 Rutting season in the Darß. A juvenile male of red deer (Cervus elaphus) roaming around in the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park, on the Baltic Sea. The Darß is the middle part of the peninsula of Fischland-Darß-Zingst on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. | Darß - Germany | September 2020 |

  • Red deer (Cervus elaphus)

    Red deer (Cervus elaphus)

    🦌 Young male of red deer (Cervus elaphus) around the @seenotretter sea rescue harbour at the Darß, within the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park, on the Baltic Sea. The red deer is one of the largest deer species and during the rutting season in September mature stags compete for the attentions of the hinds and will then try to defend the hinds they attract. Rival stags challenge opponents by belling and walking in parallel. This allows combatants to assess each other's antlers, body size and fighting prowess. If neither stag backs down, a clash of antlers can occur, and stags sometimes sustain serious injuries. The Darß is the middle part of the peninsula of Fischland-Darß-Zingst on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. | Darß - Germany | September 2020 |

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    Red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
    Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
    Common cranes (Grus grus)