A humpback whale makes a splash for passing boats, including an Australian Navy vessel. The photographer Rachelle Mackintosh spotted the whale on its way back to Antarctica, passing along the Sydney coastline early April 2024. (Photo by Rachelle Mackintosh/Caters News Agency)





Denmark's Queen Mary and Environment Minister Magnus Heunicke release a deer, as they inaugurate a new part of The Deer Park, near Naerum, Denmark, on April 7, 2024. (Photo by Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via Reuters)





A sea turtle looks through a window of a tank at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Conservation Centre, where they rescue and rehabilitate them, at the V&A Waterfront, in Cape Town, South Africa, on April 9, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





An activist of Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre holds a bat, as they rehabilitate thousands of bats rescued in cities across Ukraine and then return them to the wild, in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 6, 2024. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Horses graze next to military hardware at a firing range in the Almaty Region, Kazakhstan on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





Pet dogs interact with each other while riding a pet-friendly train along the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) in Taipei on March 31, 2024. The Taipei Metro on March 31 began operations of two pet-friendly trains along the Red Line, departing Xiangshan station and Tamsui station respectively, with eight trips throughout the day and stopping at all stations along the line as normal. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng/AFP Photo)





A forest department worker displays newly hatched Olive Ridley turtles at a hatchery along a beach after their eggs were collected by the volunteers and forest department workers from along the coastline of Bay of Bengal, in Chennai on April 1, 2024. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





A worker feeds a turtle hatchling at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Conservation Centre, where they rescue and rehabilitate turtle hatchlings after hatchlings were stranded during the recent storms and intense winds on South Africa's coastline, at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa on April 9, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Golden retriever guide dog Trigger in Leamington Spa, UK in the first decade of April 2024 celebrates his final litter for charity Guide Dogs as he retires from his position as top stud dog at the age of nine. Father to more than 300 puppies, Trigger has offspring working all over the UK. (Photo by Doug Peters/PA Media Assignments)





Meteorologist Katarzyna Kudłacz in March 2024 looked up from her breakfast at a Polish research station in Svalbard to see three polar bears – a female and two cubs – with their noses pressed up against the window. The team fired a signal gun to scare off the bears. “It was a wonderful experience, but we must remember that they are wild animals and for them and for us it is better to keep our distance”, she said. (Photo by Katarzyna Kudłacz)





Hundreds of storks rest on their nests built in power poles near the city of Coimbra, Portugal, Saturday, April 6, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A Hummingbird (Coeligena helianthea) is been photographed at the birdwatching route at The Paramuno Ecological Trail, house of hundreds of Hummingbird in Bogota, Colombia on March 9, 2024. Colombia boasts the highest diversity of hummingbird species globally, surpassing countries like Ecuador, Costa Rica, or Peru. Out of the 360 known species of hummingbirds worldwide, Colombia is home to an impressive 165 species. Hummingbirds are unique in their ability to fly backward, making them extraordinary avian creatures. (Photo by Juancho Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A volunteer from Kosice places frogs into a bucket to help them cross the busy road as they make their way to the nearby waters of the Ruzin water reservoir for breeding as part of their amphibian migration near Margecany in Kosice region, Slovakia on March 28, 2024. (Photo by Robert Nemeti/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Veterinarians and biologists from the Quito Zoo and the Andean Condor Foundation transfer the juvenile Andean bear Tupak to the helicopter that returns him into the wild, after the bear's life was deemed in danger due to proximity to humans, in Quito, Ecuador on March 31, 2024. (Photo by Karen Toro/Reuters)





A competitor in the carting category of the Henrik Sečnik dog mushing race in Hraše, Slovenia on April 8, 2024. Over 100 dogs and their owners from Slovenia and abroad competed in the 10th edition of this international race. (Photo by Luka Dakskobler/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Visitors looks at marine species at the Two Oceans Aquarium at the V&A Waterfront, in Cape Town, South Africa, on April 9, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Local resident Yevgenia Perednya pets her cat as she sits in a tent placed atop the ceiling of an unfinished house to escape record floods in the settlement of Ivanovskoye, Orenburg region, Russia on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A police dog of the French Brigade de Recherche et d'Intervention (BRI - Research and Intervention Brigade) police unit participates in a training session at the Eurosatory international land and airland defence and security trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, on June 12, 2022. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Photo)





An elderly man waits to refill his donkey-drawn water tank during a water crisis in Port Sudan in the Red Sea State of war-torn Sudan on April 9, 2024. The war between Sudan's army and a paramilitary force since last April has killed tens of thousands and forced millions to flee their homes, in one of the world's most dire humanitarian emergencies. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Keeper Silvia Salvatierra, 59, is kissed by a chimp named “Jony”, 54, who was rescued from a circus, at the Lujan Zoo from where felines, including tigers and lions, will be transferred to a wildlife sanctuary in India, in Lujan, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Agustin Marcarian/Reuters)