President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, stand next to national Thanksgiving turkey Gobble during a pardoning ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, November 25, 2025. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)





A woman holds Filip the cat as they watch members of Romania's armed forces marching during a full rehearsal for the national day military parade that will take place on December 1, 2025. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





Student Lovisa Ode (left) and Crown Princess Victoria pet a dog during celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of Swedish veterinary medicine at the Swedish University of Agriculture (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden on November 27, 2025. (Photo by SPA/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A young leopard feeds on a cow carcass beside rubbish and fast-moving traffic in Udaipur, India. The picture is the winner in the conservation category of the Nature in Focus Photography Competition 2025. (Photo by Nature in Focus)





A stray dog wades through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in Kaduwela on the outskirts of Colombo on November 28, 2025. Sri Lanka deployed the military for relief and rescue operations on November 28 as the death toll from floods and landslides across the island rose to 56, with another 21 people missing. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





An endangered parma wallaby is held as it comes out of sedation after getting a full health check and a microchip on Peter Pigott’s property at Mount Wilson, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia in November 2025. (Photo by Jessica Hromas/AAP)





A mulgara is released by scientist Rebecca West in the Wild Deserts precinct of Sturt national park, New South Wales, Australia on 2025.. Many of the country’s distinctive small marsupials – the bilbies, bandicoots and quolls – have been missing for a century or more, wiped out by land clearing and the hunting prowess of feral cats. A group of scientists has started a bold project to see if small marsupials can train themselves to survive alongside the cats that drove their species almost to extinction. (Photo by Richard Freeman/UNSW)





Chickens perch on the roof of a hennery to escape rising floodwaters after Typhoon Utor hit Maoming, Guangdong province, China, on August 15, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





A pelican in St Jame's Park, London on Sunday, November 30, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Moore/PA Images via Getty Images)





Tim, a hippopotamus at BioParque do Rio, eats a fruit and vegetable cake during the celebration of his 29th birthday at the Quinta da Boa Vista zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 27, 2025. (Photo by Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images)





A giant panda cub plays with a yellow rubber duck at Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, Southwestern China on November 30, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Roxy, a Red Labradoodle, Jaku, a Black and Tan Lurcher, Kobe, a White German Shepherd, Rocky, a Black and Tan German Shepherd, and Busy, an English Springer Spaniel Cross, queue outside an Aldi store in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK on Monday, December 1, 2025. (Phoot by Lucy Ray/PA Media Assignments)





Cats rest at a temporary shelter in Hat Yai district, affected by deadly flooding due to heavy rainfall, which has impacted several provinces in southern Thailand on November 26, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Regional Coordinator of the Kitabanga Project Debora Carvalho measures a sea turtle at the Longa base in Hojiua, in Cuanza Sul province, Angola, on November 8, 2025. (Photo by Cesar Muginga/Reuters)





Nicholas, the son of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, crouches next to Waddle the turkey inside the White House press briefing room in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, November 25, 2025. Waddle was one of the two turkeys pardoned by President Donald Trump as part of an annual Thanksgiving tradition. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)