Blood is seen in the water as rescuers retrieve the carcass of a stranded fin whale in Christchurch on January 29, 2024. The whale, which had been stranded off the coast of Moncks Bay on January 28, died in the early morning. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/AFP Photo)





Customers play with micro pigs at a mipig cafe, Wednesday, January 24, 2024, in Tokyo. The Mipig Café in fashionable Harajuku is among 10 such pig cafes the operator has opened around Japan, including one in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido and another in Fukuoka on the southern Kyushu island. The first one opened in Tokyo in 2019. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





AJ Dereume holds up groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, as he makes his prediction on how long winter will last during the Groundhog Day Festivities, at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 2, 2024. (Photo by Alan Freed/Reuters)





Norma Jean Gargasz and her 3-year-old red healer, Ryder, at the Santa Catalina Mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona on February 2, 2024. (Photo by Joe Rondone for USA TODAY Network)





A slow loris is treated by vets before the release in the Gunung Koneng Part of Gunung Halimun Salak National Park on January 19, 2024, in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia. The Indonesian branch of International Animal Rescue, Yayasan YIARI, released 7 Javan slow lorises (Nycticebus Javanicus) from illegal wildlife keep by residents and illegal trade and has rescued over a thousand slow lorises and released more than 600 into the wild. (Photo by Garry Andrew Lotulung/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Benito the giraffe (L) is presented to the media at Africam Safari animal park in Puebla, Puebla state, Mexico on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Jose Castañares/AFP Photo)





A Bentley-driving show-off sparked panic when he was seen cruising through a city with a baby lion leaning from the car. Footage shows the collared big cat enjoying the joyride as it sits in the back of the white open-top Continental GTC car in Pattaya, Thailand on January 22, 2024. (Photo by ViralPress)





Monkeys are seen on the roof top of the residential building during a sunny winter day in Gulmarg, about 55kms from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir on January 24, 2024. (Photo by Saqib Majeed/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A pigeon that was captured eight months back near a port after being suspected to be a Chinese spy, is released at a vet hospital in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, January 30, 2024. Police had found two rings tied to its legs, carrying words that looked like Chinese. Police suspected it was involved in espionage and took it in. Eventually, it turned out the pigeon was an open-water racing bird from Taiwan that had escaped and made its way to India. With police permission, the bird was transferred to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose doctors set it free on Tuesday. (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via AP Photo)





Rescue workers turn a young manatee named Churro on it's side as they document any marks or injuries before releasing it into a canal, Thursday, January 18, 2024, at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Teams from SeaWorld Rescue, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and others returned Churro and its mother, Reckless, back to Florida waters after Reckless was rescued alongside her newborn calf following a May 2022 boat strike that left Reckless with catastrophic injuries and little hope for survival. (Photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)





This handout picture released by Bogota's Environment Secretary shows a member of the national police showing one of the frogs seized at the El Dorado international airport in Bogota, on January 28, 2024. This Monday, Bogota authorities seized 130 poisonous frogs that were going to be trafficked from the Colombian capital's airport to Sao Paulo and arrested a Brazilian woman who was carrying them in a suitcase. (Photo by Handout/Bogota's Environment Secretary/AFP Photo)





A swan causes havoc on the A1 in Northumberland, UK in the last decade of January 2024, where it brought traffic to a standstill after getting stuck on the northbound carriage. The bird was unable to fly because of strong winds associated with Storm Isha. (Photo by Andy Commins/Mirrorpix)





A ten-week-old North China leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis) is handled during a routine health check in the Zoo of Debrecen, northeastern Hungary, 30 January 2024. The female cub, which was born on 21 November 2023, belongs to a leopard subspecies that is endemic to the forest habitats of Northern China. (Photo by Zsolt Czegledi/EPA/EFE)





Carla, a 14-year-old California sea lion, has her teeth and mouth examined by a zookeeper, Alice Fraser, as part of a health check at Chessington World of Adventures, Surrey in the last decade of January 2024. (Photo by Joe Pepler/PinPep)





Sled dogs pull a Czech racer during second day of the 2nd International Dog Sled Championship at Snow Park Ladová near Stratená, Slovakia on 28 January 2024. (Photo by Robert Nemeti/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A boat makes it's way through a pod of common dolphins fleeing from an Orca off of Point Loma Monday January 29, 2024, in San Diego. The pod has been sighted in the waters off of Southern California since December 2023. Marine biologists believe that the Orcas may stay around for a while due to abundance of their preferred food, common dolphins. (Photo by Denis Poroy/AP Photo)





Alina Panina, 27-year-old, Ukrainian border guard member and former prisoner of war (POW), embraces her service dog “Roksi”, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Novovolynsk, Volyn region, Ukraine on January 23, 2024. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Five species of turtle hatchlings in the hands of an environmental agent from the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), upon arrival with boxes containing more than 800 turtle hatchlings to be released into the wild, in the Parque Nacional do Jau, some 195 kilometers from Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon, Brazil, 27 January 2024. The historic drought that the Amazon has been suffering since September 2023 made it difficult to rescue the endangered turtle eggs in the world's largest rainforest, but did not prevent activists fighting to save the species in Brazil from commemorating the release of 800 chelonian hatchlings this weekend. (Photo by Raphael Alves/EPA)





A man interacts with Kodiak bears, which escaped from an inadequate enclosure at a local residence, according to Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, on a road in Baker, Florida, U.S., in this handout image released January 31, 2024. (Photo by Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters)





Pigeons flutter beside people resting at the seaside in Tel Aviv, Israel on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)