A seagull flies as two others sit on an electric light on a bridge over the Anzali Lagoon in the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in port city of Bandar Anzali, Iran, Thursday, December 5, 2024. (Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)





Syrian shepherds lead their sheeps in the neighbourhood of Jobar, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, December 21, 2024, as they pass by buildings that were destroyed during the civil war. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Pomeranians Peanut and Coco ahead of the Christmas Day morning church service attended by the royal family at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, UK on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. (Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images)





Gorillas open their Christmas gifts at the Bioparc zoo in Fuengirola on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jorge Guerrero/AFP Photo)





In this photo released by the Mammoth Museum at the Russian North-Eastern Federal University on Monday, December 23, 2024, University's Scientists show the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia's Siberia. (Photo by Michil Yakovlev, Mammoth Museum at the Russian North-Eastern Federal University telegram channel via AP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Department of Conservation, rangers inspect what is believed to be a rare spade-toothed whale on July 5, 2024, after it was found washed ashore on a beach near Otago, New Zealand. (Photo by Department of Conservation via AP Photo)





A diver wearing a blue Santa Claus costume swims inside the “Penguins in the Sky” tank with African penguins at Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan, on December 24, 2024. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Two deer walk between tombstones at the snow-covered Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario on Christmas Day, December 25, 2024. (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A coati receives food wrapped as a Christmas tree by zookeepers at the Cali Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Iusef Rojas/AFP Photo)





A baboon (Papio hamadryas) receives food wrapped as a Christmas gift by zookeepers at the Cali Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Iusef Rojas/AFP Photo)





Baboons (Papio hamadryas) receive food wrapped as a Christmas gift by zookeepers at the Cali Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Iusef Rojas/AFP Photo)





An Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) receives food with the image of the Grinch from zookeepers at the Cali Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Iusef Rojas/AFP Photo)





A baboon (Papio hamadryas) receives food wrapped as a Christmas gift by zookeepers at the Cali Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Iusef Rojas/AFP Photo)





A man in a Santa Claus costume presents gifts to lemurs at the Bioparc zoo in Fuengirola on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jorge Guerrero/AFP Photo)





Gorillas open their Christmas gifts at the Bioparc zoo in Fuengirola on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jorge Guerrero/AFP Photo)





A grizzly bear attempts to open Christmas presents given to them by their keepers, at the La Fleche Zoo, western France, on December 23, 2024. (Photo by Jean-Francois Monier/AFP Photo)





A ring-tailed lemur eats from a box of food given by their keepers as a Christmas present, at the La Fleche Zoo, western France, on December 23, 2024. (Photo by Jean-Francois Monier/AFP Photo)





A cheetah discovers a box of food given by their keepers as a Christmas present, at the La Fleche Zoo, western France, on December 23, 2024. (Photo by Jean-Francois Monier/AFP Photo)





In Belgrade, the snow in December caused problems for some, and brought joy to others on December 24, 2024. (Photo by F.S./ATAImages)





Wefa, 13, a female Western lowland gorilla, looks inside a Christmas box that contained food as a gift, after a caretaker dressed up as Santa Claus placed it in the enclosure of the family of gorillas, at Bioparc Fuengirola, in Fuengirola, Spain, on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)