Maryam Al Balushi feeds her pets in her home Oman's capital Muscat on November 20, 2020. Despite complaints from neighbours and mounting expense, she has accumulated 480 cats and 12 dogs, describing her pets as a mood-lifter and better companions than her fellow humans. (Photo by Mohammed Mahjoub/AFP Photo)





A man shows a newborn calf in his car on a road outside the town of Lachin on November 29, 2020, after six weeks of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. A Moscow-brokered peace deal was announced on November 10 after Azerbaijan's military overwhelmed Armenian separatist forces and threatened to advance on Karabakh's main city Stepanakert. (Photo by Karen Minasyan/AFP Photo)





Indian policemen look at the monkeys roaming around in an empty street during the curfew in Ahmedabad, India, 21 November 2020. Gujarat government imposed 60 hours of curfew in Ahmedabad starting from 9pm on 20 November till 6am 23 November in an attempt to counter the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 disease. India has the second highest total of confirmed COVID-19 cases in world, as Indian tally cross nine million cases, only behind the United States. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





Twenty month-old Sumatran Tiger Pemanah is seen during a health check at Taronga Zoo on November 18, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Pemanah, whose name means Archer in Indonesian, is a 20-month-old Sumatran Tiger. Health checks are conducted by Taronga Wildlife Hospital staff once a year to allow zoo veterinarians the chance to assess the health of the animals by checking overall body condition. In order for the check to take place, Pemanah's regular keepers trained him to come to a station and voluntarily accept an injection through mesh to administer the initial anesthetic. Once vets asses that the animal is safely under anesthetic, he is temporarily restrained using a net before being transferred to a table for the health check. An ankle restraint is also used on the tiger as an additional safety measure.As part of the procedure, Pemanah was given a hormone implant to help manage breeding as well as having his teeth, eyes and ears checked, blood tests taken in addition to an overall examination. After the procedure, Pemanah was transferred to a heated hay pile to recover before being given a reversal injection to bring him out from under anesthetic. Taronga Zoo was allocated $37.5million as part of Tuesday night's 2020-21 NSW state budget to build new, state-of-the-art wildlife hospitals in Sydney and Dubbo. The remaining $35.9 million to complete the project will be sought from philanthropic and private donors. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)





Humboldt penguins at Copenhagen Zoo are being vaccinated on December 1, 2020. Once a year, all Copenhagen Zoo's birds must undergo a health check and be vaccinated against the bird flu. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP Photo)





Motorcycle enthusiast Gilbert Delos Reyes rides with his pet dog Bogie, in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines, November 26, 2020. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A New Zealand Fur Seal is seen washed up on Manly Beach November 30, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The seal appeared this afternoon as wildlife officers ands surf lifesavers set up an exclusion zone around the seal to keep onlookers at bay. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)





Harvey Fay relaxes as he tickles his favourite donkey Smurphy Murphy, during a visit to Future Roots, a community farm staying open to support the vulnerable amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Sherborne, Britain on November 13, 2020. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)





British musician Paul Barton plays the piano for monkeys that occupy abandoned historical areas in Lopburi, Thailand on November 21 2020. (Photo by Prapan Chankaew/Reuters)





Wild turkeys cross a street on the eve of Thanksgiving in Staten Island, New York, November 25, 2020. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)





A donkey jumps off a boat after crossing a river from Ethiopia to Sudan, near the Hamdeyat refugees transit camp, which houses Ethiopian refugees fleeing the fighting in the Tigray region, on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, Sudan, November 30, 2020. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





An internally displaced Afghan boy sits outside his shelter during snowfall in Kabul, Afghanistan on November 23, 2020. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





A man feeds pigeons at sunrise in Mumbai on November 26, 2020. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





Musicians pose with Kavaan, Pakistan's only Asian elephant, during his farewell ceremony before travelling to a sanctuary in Cambodia later this month, at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad on November 23, 2020. (Photo by Farooq Naeem/AFP Photo)





A red deer lifts its hoof towards a member of the public as they enter their car in the Highlands on November 26, 2020 in Glen Coe, Scotland. Britain’s largest wild animal, The Red Deer, roam on open moorlands around the country during the summer and move to lower ground into forests and wood for shelter during the harsh Scottish winters. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)





A drone sprays disinfectant at a seasonal home for migratory birds on South Korea's southern Jeju Island, 23 November 2020, following the detection of a highly pathogenic avian influenza strain in the region. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)





American Iconic singer and actress Cher (R) visits the elephant named “Kaavan” at Maragzar zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, 28 November 2020. Music icon singer and actress Cher arrived in Pakistan on Friday 27 November to celebrate the departure of Kaavan, dubbed the “world's loneliest elephant”, who will soon leave a Pakistani zoo for better conditions after years of lobbying by animal rights groups and activists. (Photo by Sohail Shahzad/EPA/EFE)





Dr. Amir Khalil, center, a veterinarian from Four Paws an international animal welfare organization, feeds an elephant named Kaavan loaded in a crate before he is transported to a sanctuary in Cambodia, at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, November 29, 2020. Kavaan, the world's loneliest elephant, became a cause celebre in part because America's iconic singer and actress Cher joined the battle to save him from his desperate conditions at the zoo. (Photo by Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)