A bird flies by as Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, on October 26, 2025. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)





An albino squirrel looks up at a visitor at the Company’s Garden in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 27, 2025. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Giant tortoises enjoy pumpkins during the upcoming halloween festivities at the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, Tuesday, October 28, 2025. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo)





A hippopotamus goes for a pumpkin during the upcoming halloween festivities at the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, Tuesday, October 28, 2025. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo)





Luca, an Amur Tiger, being prepared for a CT scan to investigate locomotion abnormalities at the Big Cat Sanctuary near Ashford in Kent, UK on October 27, 2025. Luca is one of three big cats being scanned at the sanctuary with a mobile unit brought to the site which is the first time it has been tried. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)





A member of the police walks with a monkey on his shoulder during a police operation against drug trafficking at the favela do Penha, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 28, 2025. (Photo by Aline Massuca/Reuters)





A magpie looks at security cameras in Downing Street in London, Britain, 24 October 2025. (Photo by Tolga Akmen/EPA)





A brown bear enjoys a treat in its enclosure at the Bear Sanctuary near Pristina, Kosovo on October 24, 2025. (Photo by Armend Nimani/AFP Photo)





Three lynx who were rescued by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) after being abandoned in the Cairngorms earlier this year have started showing their energetic and curious personalities at Highland Wildlife Park in the last decade of October 2025. (Photo by Royal Zoological Society of Scotland)





A woman holds a Cornish Rex cat during the FIFe World Show Romania 2025, the world's largest cat event, held in a different country every year, which brought together more than 1000 cats from over 30 countries, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, October 25, 2025. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





This handout picture taken and released by Customs Mumbai International Airport on October 30, 2025, shows a silvery gibbon as it was seized from a checked baggage of a passenger travelling from Malaysia via Thailand, at Mumbai International Airport. Indian customs officers have arrested a passenger after discovering two endangered gibbons stuffed inside a checked bag, the latest animals seized from smugglers, enough to make up a zoo. One of the tiny apes from Indonesia was dead, while the other, in a video shared by Indian Customs, was seen cradled in the arms of an officer, softly hooting before covering its face with its arm. (Photo by Handout/Customs Mumbai International Airport/AFP Photo)





A young tiger tries to get at poultry parts hidden in a pumpkin at Magdeburg Zoo, Germany on October 30, 2025. The zoo is celebrating Halloween from October 31, 2025 to November 1, 2025. In addition to the puppet theater, children's carousel and children's train, visitors can carve their own pumpkins, which are then distributed to the zoo animals and serve as food. (Photo by Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/Avalon)





A model walks the runway with two dogs during a pet fashion show in Shanghai on October 31, 2025. (Photo by Jade Gao/AFP Photo)





One of the Brown bears rescued from restaurant cages across Kosovo and Albania, eats a pumpkin treat at the Four Paws Bear Sanctuary in Mramor near Pristina, Kosovo, on October 24, 2025. (Photo by Valdrin Xhemaj/Reuters)





Handout photo issued by Whipsnade Zoo of Hugo, a Greater One Horned Rhino, investigates Halloween pumpkins in his enclosure at Whipsnade Zoo, Dunstable, UK on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/Whipsnade Zoo/PA Wire)