A rare snowy owl looks down from its perch high atop the large marble orb of the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain at the entrance to Union Station in Washington, Friday, January 7, 2022. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)





A flock of flamingos are pictured in a pond in Navi Mumbai on January 16, 2022. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP Photo)





A wild otter shakes off water from its fur while hunting for fish in a pond in Kirkcudbright, a harbour town on the Solway coast in Scotland in January 2022. (Photo by Brian Matthews/Animal News Agency)





Elephants stroll inside the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawala on January 15, 2022. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Icelandic horses play at a stud farm in Wehrheim, Germany, Monday, January 17, 2022. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A lion looks ahead inside its enclosure at the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa in Pretoria on January 19, 2022. Big cats caged in zoos are at risk from catching Covid-19 from their keepers, a study said January 8, 2022 Research led by scientists at the University of Pretoria found three lions and two pumas fell ill with Covid-19 coronavirus, and the clues point to infection by their handlers, some of whom were asymptomatic. (Photo by Phill Magakoe/AFP)





A giant tortoise is seen on Santa Cruz Island after Ecuador announced the expansion of a marine reserve that will encompass 198,000 square kilometers (76,448 square miles), in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador on January 14, 2022. (Photo by Santiago Arcos/Reuters)





A pelican is seen on Santa Cruz Island after Ecuador announced the expansion of a marine reserve that will encompass 198,000 square kilometres (around 76,448 square miles), in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, January 16, 2022. (Photo by Santiago Arcos/Reuters)





A sea lion rests on a dock on Santa Cruz Island, after Ecuador announced the expansion of a marine reserve that will encompass 198,000 square kilometres (around 76,448 square miles), in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, January 16, 2022. (Photo by Santiago Arcos/Reuters)





A blue-footed booby is seen on Santa Cruz Island after Ecuador announced the expansion of a marine reserve that will encompass 198,000 square kilometres (around 76,448 square miles), in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, January 16, 2022. (Photo by Santiago Arcos/Reuters)





Marine iguanas are seen on Santa Cruz Island after Ecuador announced the expansion of a marine reserve that will encompass 198,000 square kilometers (around 76,448 square miles), in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador on January 16, 2022. (Photo by Santiago Arcos/Reuters)





A wild macaque carries its baby on the back is seen at Huaguoshan Mountain after a snowfall on January 6, 2022 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Wang Chun/VCG via Getty Images)





A long-tailed tit is seen in a park in Sapparo, northern Japan, 17 January 2022. Also called “snow fairy”, the 14cm-long bird is popular on social networking service and became a favorite for photo enthusiasts. (Photo by JIJI Press/EPA/EFE)





A manatee pokes its nose out of the water as it swims near the main spring, Wednesday, January 19, 2022, at Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Fla. The manatees are attracted to the warmth of the 73-degree Fahrenheit spring during cold weather, with a record-breaking number counted by volunteer manatee watchers this week. (Photo by Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP Photo)





Brent gooses feed in the waters in salt marshes of the French national nature reserve Lilleau des Niges during the counting of wintering waterbirds coordinated at world level by Wetlands international on the Ile of Re island, western coast of France, on January 14, 2022. These censuses mobilize a global network of nearly 150,000 volunteers who count nearly 1.5 billion birds in 50,000 referenced wetlands in 180 countries. (Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP Photo)





A gemsbok or South African oryx (Oryx gazella) in the Namib-Naukluft national park in Namibia. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An owl plays peek-a-boo from its nest in a hole in a tree in Elverum, Norway on January 15, 2022. (Photo by Erik Enersen/Mercury Press)





Wild goats which is on the Red List of Endangered Species published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) are seen at Mount Pagan in Turkiye's Van province on January 06, 2022. It has been determined that the number of wild goats living on Mount Pagan in Van's Gurpinar district and taken under the protection of the The Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks and the gendarmerie teams has increased. Wild goats draw attention with their populations on Mount Pagan in the county's Norduz Region. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A black bear cub performs for its mum at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife park in North Carolina, US in January 2022. (Photo by Jennifer Hadley/Animal News Agency)





A cat plays in the snow during a huge winter storm in Mississauga, Ontario, on Monday, January 17, 2022. (Photo by Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)