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Zebra -

Thousands of zebra congregate near the last remaining water hole before they begin their annual migration from Makadikadi Basin to the Boteti River in Botswana.

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Andean flamingo -

A shimmering colony of Andean flamingos dot the shallow waters of Laguna Colorada, a salt lake in southwest Bolivia.

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Elephant -

A family of elephants returning to dry brushland in the afternoon after a day of feeding on grass in the Linyanti River in northern Botswana.

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Roe deer -

Roe deer scatter across a snowy landscape in Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

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Killer whale -

A pair of killer whales—orcas—sighted in Vrangel Bay off the Russian Pacific coast.

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Brown fur seal -

Brown fur seals congregate at Cape Frio along the northern shoreline of Namibia.

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Adélie penguin -

Adélie penguins cluster on pack ice in Antarctica.

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Sandhill crane -

Sandhill cranes dot the surface of the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska.

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Giraffe -

A lone giraffe in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana.

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Gray seal -

Gray seals congregate at the tip of a sand bar on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

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Lechwe -

A herd of lechwe, a species of antelope, makes its way through the shallow waters of the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana during the flood season. 

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Vicuña -

Four vicuña found foraging early in the morning near the edge of Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, in southwest Bolivia.

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Oryx -

A solitary oryx standing on a sand dune in the Sossusvlei, a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia.

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Blacktip reef shark -

A blacktip reef shark hunting in a shoal of fish in the tropical waters off Lang Tengah Island, Malaysia.

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Hippopotamus -

A hippopotami herd in Namibia's Linyanti Swamp area set in the remote Mamili National Park.

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Green sea turtle -

A green sea turtle swims solo near the coral island of Liuqiu Island in Taiwan. The species is listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List.

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Pelican -

Pelicans sunning and preening themselves in the bay at The Entrance, in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Sheep -

A flock of sheep seen in a somewhat incongruous setting in Inner Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

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Pink flamingos -

A flock of pink flamingos glide over the Carmargue wetlands in southern France.

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Rhinoceros -

A rare pair of white rhinoceroses. Hunted almost into extinction, the species is only found in protected areas of Southern Africa and Northern Congo.

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Gannet -

A colony of incubating gannets on Quebec's Bonaventure Island in Canada.  

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Horse -

Wild horses in the Parc Natural de s'Albufera de Mallorca, in Spain's Balearic Islands.

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Polar bear -

A polar bear and its two cubs trek the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's Hudson Bay area.

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Bottlenose dolphin -

A bottlenose dolphin, unusually on its own, swimming in the Black Sea.

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Caiman -

Caimans gather in the swamps of Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland area.

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Lion -

A pride of female lions relax in the Serengeti National Park, in northern Tanzania.

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Great egret -

Flocks of great egrets feeding on rice fields in the Piedmont plains, in Italy.

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Whale shark -

A pair of gigantic whale sharks surface to investigate two kayakers in the sea off Oslob, in the province of Cebu, Philippines.

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Milu deer -

Milu deer, also known as the Père David's deer, make tracks through wetlands near the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in Yancheng, China.

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Humpback whale -

A humpback whale calf swims close to its mother off the coast of Kapalua, Hawaii.

Sources: (BBC) (World Wildlife Fund)

See also: Wildlife that can endure high altitudes

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