A squirrel uses its tail to shield it from the weather as rain falls in south London October Official figures showed that last month was the driest September in the UK since records began over one hundred years ago. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)
Image 24 of A firefighter holds a red panda (Ailurus fulgens) from its tail while removing it from a tree at a residential area in Kunming, Yunnan province, China July REUTERS/Stringer
An employee feeds a one-week-old coati cub with a bottle of milk at the Royev Ruchey zoo in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, October The mother of three cubs refused to nurse them, according to zoo employees. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
Kamchatka Brown Bear Mascha stands beside a Christmas tree, decorated with fruits and fish, at Hagenbecks zoo in Hamburg, December (REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer)
A western lowland gorilla named Mbeli holds her baby in their enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. The baby gorilla was born three days ago, and is the first sired by the zoo's new Silverback who arrived from France in Picture: REUTERS/David Gray
A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park in south west London, October Over 600 red and fallow deer roam in the largest of London's Royal Parks, and have their numbers managed in an .
A three-month-old macaque bites its toe in front of a fan heater at a wildlife park in Kunming, Yunnan province, China Photograph: Wong Campion/Reuters Animal photographs of the year 2014
-- A family of giraffes look out from their enclosure before taking part in a Christmas-themed feeding session at Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo, December (REUTERS/Jason Reed)
