People walk up the main stairs of the Yeni Camii or “New Mosque” at Eminonu, in Istanbul, Monday, September 29, 2025. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A Hindu devotee performs rituals during the Mahalaya festival in Mumbai, India, on Sunday, September 21, 2025. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





A Syrian boy, left, takes picture by a mobile phone for a veiled woman holds a hawk in the old city of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, October 2, 2025. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





The local community of Dunoy is releasing a juvenile specimen in a small creek adjacent to the Disulap River. The release of juvenile crocodiles into the wild represents the culminating phase of the Head Start programme, which seeks to enhance hatchling survival rates and facilitate the recovery of the Philippine crocodile population. Crocodiles serve as a keystone species in freshwater ecosystems. (Photo by Giacomo d’Orlando/Siena awards festival 2025)





A red panda feeds for Mid-Autumn Festival at a zoo in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, 29 September, 2025. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)





A child looks on as Ultra-Orthodox Jewish people perform the Kaparot ritual, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Bnei Brak, Israel, on September 30, 2025. (Photo by Shir Torem/Reuters)





The start of beautiful sunny autumn morning and the magnificent stags in Windsor Great Park, UK on September 30, 2025 as the autumn colours in the trees on the Long Walk provided a magnificent backdrop for the hundreds of deer roaming in sight of Windsor Castle. (Photo by Vagner Vidal Photography)





Cattle are prepared for judging at The Dairy Show at the Bath and West Showground on October 01, 2025 in Shepton Mallet, England. The Dairy Show event is one of the most important dates in the dairy farmer's calendar, combining a comprehensive trade show with an exhibition of top-quality dairy cattle. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)





Jasmine Entz gets a kiss from her Guinness Book of World Record-breaking 8-year-old Holstein steer called “Beef”, who weighs 2,400 pounds and stands nearly two meters (6 feet) tall, on her ranch in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, on Friday, September 26, 2025. (Photo by Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





Cross Innovation Day, 2024. Atziry, 9, stands in her courtyard in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, holding one of seven dogs that provide security in a dangerous environment. In Juárez, where women face persistent threats, even home isn’t always safe. As the daughter of Baby Star, a former Juárez champion, Atziry is part of a family with a long wrestling tradition. Already accompanying her mother to the ring in costume, she may one day step into the ring, continuing her mother’s legacy. (Photo by Jana Margarete Schuler/Siena awards festival 2025)





A man drives a herd of water buffaloes on Marajo Island, Brazil,October 1, 2025. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A cat is pictured during the World Cat Federation (WCF) cat show in Budapest, Hungary on September 28, 2025. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Polar bears have taken over the abandoned Soviet-era research station on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea, in Russia's far northeast. Photo taken on September 14, 2025. (Photo by @makhorov/Reuters)





Polar bears have taken over the abandoned Soviet-era research station on Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea, in Russia's far northeast. Photo taken on September 14, 2025. (Photo by @makhorov/Reuters)





A stag appears to stop to pose for a woman taking picture in Richmond Park, southwest London in the last decade of September 2025. (Photo by Robert Piper/Caters News Agency)





A dog sits in a basket on the ground as its owner votes at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Brno, Czech Republic, on October 3, 2025. (Photo by Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters)





This tiny female capuchin monkey, named Maria, was shot in the shoulder in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2025. She lost the use of her legs and was treated by the Instituto Vida Livre, but sadly did not survive. In almost 10 years, 69 wild animals have been shot in Rio, just some of the wildlife caught in Rio’s rampant gun crime. (Photo by João Laet/The Guardian)





A dog team carrying hunters and narwhal mattak crosses over a crack in the sea ice on Inglefield Fjord, near Qaanaaq, Greenland, on 24 May 2023. Dog teams are the primary form of transportation in north Greenland, where few snowmobiles exist. This is due to a number of factors, chief among them a desire by hunters to keep from disturbing calving narwhals with noise, as well as the desire to keep the traditional culture of dogsleds alive. (Photo by Kiliii Yuyan/Siena awards festival 2025)





A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator carries a cat during a protest to condemn the interception of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Rome, Italy, on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)





Thomas Price, executive director of the Conservation Through Commercialization conservation park, looks at an African wild dog imported from South Africa, as part of efforts to reintroduce the endangered mammal at the at the CTC park, a privately managed wildlife facility founded in 2015 combining wildlife breeding and commercial purposes with educational initiatives to fund conservation efforts, in Mpigi district, Uganda on September 19, 2025. (Photo by Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters)