A Thai veterinarian from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation's animal welfare team sterilizes a monkey as part of the macaques population control campaign at a residential community in Bang Khun Thian district, Bangkok, Thailand, 23 January 2024. As part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's campaign to control the urban monkey population, at least one hundred monkeys in Bang Khun Thian district are expected to be caught for sterilization. This is due to the monkeys causing a nuisance to local residents, damaging their houses and assets, and raising fears of disease. The Bang Khun Thian district of Bangkok is situated near the Gulf of Thailand and is home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques that are facing a threat due to urban expansion, with many being hit by cars or attacked by locals when they approach for food. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





Members of the public look at the cages containing the pigeons at the British Homing World Show of the Year in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, Britain, on January 20, 2024. (Photo by Carl Recine/Reuters)





A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Tuesday, January 16, 2024. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, dozens ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the “Luminarias”, a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)





A woman shows her pets as she waits in the bus while sappers operate at the site of a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, January 23, 2024. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Nataliia Popova, 51-year-old, head of Wild Animal Rescue Centre, pets wolf “Venera” at the centre's facility, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Chubynske, Kyiv region, Ukraine on January 25, 2024. Wild Animal Rescue Centre rescuers provide medical treatment and find new homes abroad for wild animals who suffered from the war. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Photographer Peter Bennett takes pictures of the prize winning pigeons at the British Homing World Show of the Year in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, Britain, on January 20, 2024. (Photo by Carl Recine/Reuters)





A sled dog team pull their rig on a training run before this weekend’s annual sled dog rally in Aviemore, Scotland, Britain, on January 25, 2024. (Photo by Russell Cheyne/Reuters)





A man waits with his bulbul birds to participate in a fight held as part the Magh Bihu harvest festival in Hajo town, on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, January 15, 2024. Traditional bird and buffalo fights resumed in India’s remote northeast after the supreme court ended a nine-year ban, despite opposition from wildlife activists. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Nurahun Osman catches a pigeon as he shows journalists the damage done to his coop during the earthquake in Yamansu township of Uchturpan county, Aksu prefecture in western China's Xinjiang region, Wednesday, January 24, 2024. As aftershocks continued to rock western China on Wednesday, thousands of people were staying in tents and other shelters, lighting bonfires to fend off the freezing weather. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Nik Ricci, left, Senior Animal Care Specialist with Seaworld Orlando, comforts a large manatee named Reckless as workers prepare to release her into a canal, Thursday, January 18, 2024, at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Teams from SeaWorld Rescue, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and others returned Reckless and her calf Churro, back to Florida waters after Reckless was rescued alongside her newborn calf following a May 2022 boat strike that left Reckless with catastrophic injuries and little hope for survival. (Photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)





A girl holds her hedgehog to be blessed by a priest at the Cathedral San Bernardino de Siena during the ceremony commemorating the Feast of San Antonio Abad, the patron saint of domestic animals, in Xochimilco on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Raquel Cunha/Reuters)





A coyote spotted in a parking lot covered with snow in South Lake Tahoe of California, United States on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Clad in a yellow vest, Efruz, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs a wave accompanied by his caretaker Mauro Canella, a surfing instructor, in the Pacific waters of San Bartolo, Peru, January 25, 2024. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)





Eric McGill, of the bird education and conservation company Earthwings.org, holds his 10-year-old eagle-owl named Pumpkin on Main Street on the opening day of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Thursday, January 18, 2024, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)





A herder in Bayan Ulgii, western Mongolia, braves driving snow as he move the family herd of livestock, including camels, horses and goats in January 2024. (Photo by Hirak Bhattacharjee/Solent News)





The pet giraffe “Benito” of Ciudad Juarez stands in a container in which it will be transferred to Africam Safari in the city of Puebla, in the Central Park in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on January 21, 2024. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)





A person holds newborn rabbits as rabbits were caught and treated during rescue operations carried out by animal lovers for days, is seen with her newly born babies in Ankara, Turkiye on January 23, 2024. Of the nearly 50 domestic rabbits left on the bridge on the Ankara-Eskisehir road, 32 were caught and treated by animal lovers during rescue operations. (Photo by Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Driver Lucas Moraes and co-driver Armand Monleon drive past a camel during stage 11 of the 2024 Dakar Rally from Al Ula to Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)





British Short Hair cats are presented by their owners during the Cat Expo 2024 in Athens, Greece, 20 January 2024. Owners of cats from several European countries participate in the expo. (Photo by Orestis Panagiotou/EPA)





A priest anoints a dog at the San Anton church during the feast of Saint Anthony, Spain's patron saint of animals in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, January 17, 2024. The feast is celebrated each year in many parts of Spain and people bring their animals to churches to be blessed. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/AP Photo)