A woman with a face mask and a dog sit on a bench at the almost abandoned downtown in Duisburg, Germany, Monday, January 25, 2021. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





A man goes through his daily routine of feeding the birds near the Great Ouse river on January 19, 2021 in Godmanchester, United Kingdom. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)





A sparrow sits on the handlebars of an e-scooter at Berlin's Ostbahnhof station on January 6, 2021. (Photo by Kira Hofmann/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa)





This undated handout photo released by Wildlife Reserves Singapore on January 26, 2021 shows a male lion cub, which was conceived through assisted reproduction, at the Wildlife Healthcare and Research Centre in Singapore Zoo in Singapore. (Photo by Wildlife Reserves Singapore/Handout via AFP Photo)





A dog wearing ski goggles rides on the back of a man as they both stand in Times Square in New York, USA on January 25, 2021. (Photo by John Angelillo/UPI/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Red deer in Richmond Park, London, United Kingdom on January 8, 2021. (Photo by John Walton/PA Images via Getty Images)





A dog licks its nose during a protest of animals rights activists demanding to toughen up the punishment for animal abuse in Almaty, Kazakhstan on November 21, 2020. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





An employee dressed as a Santa Claus costume feeds cats at the Catgarden in Seoul, South Korea, December 14, 2020. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Two miniature toy poodles take a ride in a dog carrier past the Old Bailey, London on Friday January 22, 2021, during England's third national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. (Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images)





A paralysed mouse is seen in a lab at Ruhr University, where scientists discovered a way to restore the ability to walk in mice that had been paralysed after a complete spinal cord injury, in Bochum, Germany, January 21, 2021. (Photo by Leon Kuegeler/Reuters)





A Harris's hawk named Lightning is held by Matt from pest control firm City Hawks in front of the BBC's New Broadcasting House, London on January 15, 2021. (Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images)





Golden retriever dog owners collect money during the 29th finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity on the streets of Poznan, Poland, 31 January 2021. The 29th Final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity is taking place all over Poland. Almost 120,000 volunteers (WOSP) take part in public fundraisers in many Polish cities. Also 79 employees participating in the fundraising campaign abroad were registered. The organizers inform that this year the collected money will be used to support children's ENT, otolaryngology and head diagnostics. The final is accompanied by a large number of events, including concerts, sports competitions, auctions and outdoor performances. (Photo by Jakub Kaczmarczyk/EPA/EFE)





Mr. Zhou is fishing using trained ducks in traditional way on Hongze Lake Wetland close to Suqian town, China, 15 November 2020. Hongze Lake Wetland provide a safe habitat for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds to live through the winter. Nowadays people grow crabs and fish in a fish nursery ponds around the wetland. Traditionally some of the local people were catching fish using trained ducks, but very few of them are today using this way of fishing. The ones like Mr. Zhou who are still doing it the way his ancestors did, are hoping to attract more visitors to the wetland by keeping the tradition. (Photo by Alex Plavevski/EPA/EFE)





A cat stands behind a machine gun of a militant of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) check the situation at the positions on a front line 25 km from pro-Russian militants controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, 23 January 2021. Six ceasefire violations were recorded in the area of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) on 22 January, the press center of the Ukrainian JFO Command claimed in an update on 23 January 2021. (Photo by Dave Mustaine/EPA/EFE)





A Thai woman reacts as she feeds bottles of yogurt to monkeys during the annual Monkey Banquet festival at the Phra Prang Sam Yod ancient temple in Lopburi province, Thailand, 29 November 2020. The annual gala feast event is hosted on the last Sunday of November to honor the long-tailed macaques for attracting tourists to the town and also promote tourism. Lopburi is well-known as the city of monkeys as the ancient city is overrun by monkeys. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





A herd of deer walks through the snow in Windsor, Britain on January 24, 2021. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





A man rides on a horse past an iconic Ambassador taxi in the morning in Kolkata, India, Sunday, January 3, 2021. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)





Parish priest Father Maurizio De Sanctis (known as Padre Nike) hugs his dog Miska after the evening mass dedicated to Sant'Antonio in the Catholic church of Santa Rosa on January 17, 2021 in Livorno, Italy. Usually every year on this day many churches in Italy celebrate a mass, open to animals, in honour of Saint Anthony, the 4th century Egyptian hermit, patron Saint of animals. This year, due to the pandemic and the new restrictions in areas of Italy, the masses have proved more difficult. (Photo by Laura Lezza/Getty Images)