Retail store owner Fatma Ciftci and the cats that she hosts are seen in her store in Izmir, Turkiye on January 02, 2023. Last year, a pregnant cat took shelter in the store and gave birth multiple times to 12 cats in total. After the mother cat died in a car accident, Fatma Ciftci and her husband started to take care of her 12 kittens. (Photo by Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Liubov, 9, waits with her Granddad to receive a Christmas gift from humanitarian aid organisation UA Future, who are delivering gifts to children living in underground shelters ahead of Orthodox Christmas, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Bakhmut, Ukraine on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





This photograph shows a dog lying next to a Christmas tree inside a shelter in the city of Izium, eastern Ukraine on January 2, 2023. During the long months of Russian occupation in Izium, Andryi Pleshan took in up to 60 people in his basement. Among them was Nyka, a two-month-old baby, whose presence permeates the shelter where the 60-year-old still lives. (Photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP Photo)





Pilaheia Mykhailivna, 73 calls for her pet cat at her home, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, during intense shelling in Bakhmut, Ukraine, December 26, 2022. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





People take shelter inside a metro station during massive Russian missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine on December 29, 2022. (Photo by Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters)





Crowds gather to see an Atlantic Walrus resting on a harbour slipway on New Years Eve in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England on December 31, 2022. (Photo by Will Palmer/SWpix.com/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





The wandering walrus has delighted locals and tourists in a Yorkshire seaside town on Saturday, December 31, 2022. The marine mammal arrived in Scarborough on Friday night and has drawn huge crowds to the harbour. The Arctic walrus is believed to be Thor - the same animal that was spotted on the Hampshire coastline earlier this month. (Photo by Stuart Ford/PA Wire)





A squirrel monkey gets curious during the annual stocktake at ZSL London Zoo in central London on January 3, 2023. (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP Photo)





Man feeding birds at the Corniche in Abu Dhabi on January 3, 2023. (Photo by Khushnum Bhandari/The National)





A old man feeds a starling at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin, Germany, 26 December 2022. More and more starlings can be spotted in the city during winter time. This trend has been observed for about ten to 20 years in various bird species that otherwise travel medium distances to reach their wintering grounds in Spain or North Africa, for example. Climate change and the associated milder winters with a more favorable food situation in this country are considered to be the most important causes for the wintering of birds in Berlin as well, according to the German Nature Conservation Union NABU. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A dog takes part in the “Sanperrestre”, an annual festive dog walk version of the traditional year-end San Silvestre race, to make a stand against animal abuse and abandonment while also raising awareness about adoption over the purchase of dogs and cats, in Madrid, Spain on December 30, 2022. (Photo by Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)





Employees try to remove fur seals from a working area, on December 29, 2022, in the Amsterdam Island, part of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories. The research station at Martin-de-Vivies, is the only settlement on the island and is the seasonal home to about thirty researchers and staff studying biology, meteorology, and geomagnetics.The island is home to the endemic Amsterdam albatross. Purest air on earth. Amsterdam is a world benchmark for atmospheric analysis. The site has exceptional qualities: distance of more than 3,000 km from any continent and any human activity. (Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP Photo)





A stand with pigeons is seen during the Racing Pigeons International Fair and National Exhibition in Katowice, Poland on January 6, 2023. Poland has one of the world's largest number of pigeon fanciers in the world. Every year during the expo birds selling breeders and companies offering speciality products present their stands, as well as trophies-winning racing pigeons are exhibit. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Humboldt Penguins are counted during the annual stocktake at London Zoo in London, Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Caring for over 500 different species, zookeepers will be kicking off the new year by tallying up every mammal, bird, reptile, fish and invertebrate at the Zoo – from gorillas to turtles. (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP Photo)





Aquarists at the SEA LIFE London Aquarium during the annual “count and clean” at the London attraction on Monday, December 19, 2022. Each year the creature 'count and clean' allows staff at Sea Life to check the overall health and well-being of its marine stock in which experts carefully and accurately count all the fish at the aquarium. (Photo by James Manning/PA Wire)





A woman feeds a seagull near the Bosphorus on a sunny day in Istanbul, Turkey, 02 January 2023. (Photo by Erdem Sahin/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A man takes an early morning swim on New Year's Day at the Serpentine in London on Sunday, January 1, 2023. (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Wire)





A deer canters past participants in the Darkness into Light event in Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland on May 7th, 2022. The annual pre-dawn walk raises funds for Pieta, a charity that supports people who are in suicidal distress or engage in self-harm, as well as families affected by suicide. All counselling sessions and other services are provided free of charge. (Photo by James Crombie/INPHO)





Sandbar sharks swim next to a snorkeler in the Mediterranean Sea near a power plant off the coast of Hadera, Israel, Friday, December 30, 2022. The hot water gushing from an industrial plant in Israel's northern city of Hadera draws these sharks that are not considered to be dangerous to people, but are increasingly endangered by overfishing. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)





Young lady feeding the birds by the Corniche in the capital, Abu Dhabi on December 30, 2022. (Photo by Khushnum Bhandari/The National)