A worker feeds a falcon at a shop in Doha, Qatar, Friday, December 16, 2022. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





A person dressed in a Santa Claus costume waits with his donkey as they take part in a race, a week ahead of the Christmas season's celebration, in Capljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Dado Ruvic/Reuters)





Giraffes Pali, Pepo and Fito receive a gift from Santa Claus during the Christmas celebration in The Aurora Zoo, in Guatemala City, Guatemala on December 20, 2022. (Photo by Sandra Sebastian/Reuters)





Dressed as Santa Claus, Issa Kassissieh sits astride a camel while a dancer dances next to him, as he visits Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on December 22, 2022. (Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters)





People caress a horse during the traditional “El Tope” end of the year parade in San Jose on December 26, 2022. - Cowboy hats and boots, in the purest “wild west” style, flooded the streets of downtown San Jose this Monday to proudly display the horse culture in Costa Rica. (Photo by Ezequiel Becerra/AFP Photo)





Men dressed in traditional gaucho outfits wait for the pass of the bus taking the Argentine team that worn the World Cup to the training grounds where they will spend the night after landing at Ezeiza airport on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





An emergency worker and his dog warm up in front of a wood-burning oven in a shelter in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, December 9, 2022. (Photo by LIBKOS/AP Photo)





A fox crosses a snow covered Coniston Road in Muswell Hill on December 12, 2022 in London, England. Snow and ice disrupted rail travel and closed schools in parts of southeast England on Monday. (Photo by Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images)





An aquarist dressed as Santa Claus swims inside a tank at the AquaRio aquarium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





Officials and a surfer look at a dead beached whale on Rockaway beach on December 13, 2022 in the Queens borough of New York City. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the 23' sperm whale to be beached. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)





A cat walks atop a net as a Ukrainian soldier takes position during fights with Russian forces near Maryinka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, December 23, 2022. (Photo by Libkos/AP Photo)





Pets Farm Keeper Carolyn Booth at Blair Drummond Safari Park feeds their Cameroon sheep wearing their very own Christmas jumpers as temperatures dropped below zero at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park near Stirling on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)





Echo the basset hound plays fetch the puck with Kai, 10, from Peterborough, United Kingdom on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Terry Harris/The Times)





Dolphins at the Kharkiv Dolphinarium in Kharkiv, Ukraine on December 18, 2022. Due to the Russia-Ukraine war, the facility's workers were forced to evacuate the seals, sea lions and dolphins to another city, however they were returned back to the Kharkiv Dolphinarium later on. Dolphins Zlata and Moon are among those who have already turned around. Several dolphins, including a pregnant one, remained in Kharkiv all this time, as did the polar dolphins Plombir and Snizhka. (Photo by Sofiia Bobok/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A man has snapped a series of images showing a cheeky fox stealing a McDonald's from a bin in a London park early December 2022. (Photo by Ashley James/Caters News Agency)





Undated handout photo issued by Oliver Ridley Project of Heidi, a 29kg male turtle with only three flippers, being cleaned up after he was rescued from a ghost net in South Male Atoll in the Maldives and is now settling in at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Issue date: Tuesday December 20, 2022. (Photo by Oliver Ridley Project/PA Wire)





Father Christmas keeps Comet the reindeer well-fed with a few days to go until their big day, at Somerset Reindeer Ranch, near Yeovil, Somerset in the last decade of December 2022. (Photo by Max Willcock/BNPS)





In this photograph taken on December 13, 2022 French horse trainer Sabine Rouas rides her bull “Aston” in Vieville-Sous-les-Cotes, northeastern France. Sabine Rouas trained her bull like an horse. Aston performs in horse jumping and dressage competition. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo)





A person crosses a street in the Mile End, a borough in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as the snow comes down on December 22, 2022. A “once-in-a-generation” winter storm with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit caused Christmas travel chaos in the United States on Thursday, with thousands of flights cancelled and major highways closed. (Photo by Andrej Ivanov/AFP Photo)





Dachshunds at the annual Hyde Park Sausage Walk, in Hyde Park, London on Sunday, December 18, 2022, as dachshunds and their owners meet up to celebrate the Christmas season, with many of the sausage dogs in fancy dress. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)