A woman carrying dogs looks on amid smoke from wildfires, in Tumbaco, Ecuador on September 5, 2024. (Photo by Karen Toro/Reuters)





Milo Cui, pet of Chinese tennis player Xu Yifan, attands day four of the US Open tennis tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, on August 29, 2024. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP Photo)





American comedian Rachel Sennott attends the premiere of “Saturday Night” during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Royal Alexandra Theatre on September 10, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Robert Okine/Getty Images)





A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird prepares to have lunch at a feeder in Ontario, Ohio on September 5, 2024. The first Saturday in September is celebrated as National Hummingbird Day. (Photo by Jason J. Molyet, News Journal via USA TODAY Network)





A participant wearing traditional Bavarian lederhosen races to the finish on his ox in the 2024 Muensing Oxen Race (Muensinger Ochsenrennen) on September 01, 2024 in Muensing, Germany. The event, which pits the pride and glory of local ox breeders against one another, takes place only once every four years. The 2020 race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)





The border collie named Floki and athlete Natalia Guitler play footvolley, a combination of soccer and volleyball, on Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, September 8, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





The border collie named Floki high-fives his coach Gustavo Rodrigues as they prepare to play footvolley, a combination of soccer and volleyball, on Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, September 8, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





A military dog wears protective goggles during ceremonies in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Poland, Friday, September 6, 2024. (Photo by Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)





A fox named as “Depp”, that was found hanging upside down in a plum tree, is checked for injuries at the Fox Project's “Den” office on September 06, 2024 in Paddock Wood, England. The fox was reported by a member of the public whose dogs had alerted them to its misadventure. The animal was taken to the Fox Project's 'Den' facility to be checked over and would be later sent to the vet for an x-ray with a suspected leg injury. The Fox Project is a wildlife charity rescuing and rehabilitating sick and injured foxes and orphaned cubs. Operating daily, their specialised ambulances cover Kent and Greater London, transporting foxes to their Paddock Wood hospital for medical care and cubs to 'foster' gardens for recovery. The charity's goal is to nurture the animals back to health and independence for their eventual release, while also providing public guidance on humane deterrents and fox protection. The red fox, Vulpes vulpes, is an omnivorous mostly nocturnal mammal, widespread across the whole of mainland Britain and the Isle of Wight with populations estimated to be between 150,000 and 450,000. Numbers fluctuate depending on the time of year, with many cubs born in springtime but with a 60% mortality rate. While numbers in urban areas continue to rise, it is estimated that there has been an overall decline in the species by 40% in the UK between 1995 and 2019, according to a British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) survey. Figures that can be attributed to loss of rural habitat and the expansion of urban areas, within which foxes can easily adapt and thrive. Foxes divide opinions, either loved or maligned, and often villainised in popular culture, seen by many as crafty and devious creatures most famously Beatrix Potter's' Peter Rabbit. A hunting ban was introduced by the Labour Government in 2004 which banned the use of dogs to hunt foxes and other wild mammals in England and Wales. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





Supplied undated image obtained Wednesday, May 16, 2018 of a Brush-tailed Phascogale, also known as a Tuan, found near Dalyesford in central Victoria, Australia. Five mature Brush-tailed Phascogales have been spotted near Daylesford during an annual monitoring program in the Hepburn Regional Park and Wombat State Forest. The shy tree-climbing marsupial, also known as a Tuan, is classified as vulnerable in Victoria and is under threat from big cats, foxes and the impacts of illegally harvested firewood. (Photo by Parks Victoria/AAP Image)





A farmer leads cows back into the valleys during the traditional Viehscheid festival in Bad Hindelang, Germany, 11 September 2024. Viehscheid and Almabtrieb are the names of the annual festival which takes place at the end of summer. During the festival the farmers lead their cattle from the mountain pastures to bring them back to the valleys. (Photo by Anna Szilagyi/EPA/EFE)





A man and racehorses swim in Lake Van during the summer season on August 27, 2024 in Van, Turkiye. Champion racehorses who have competed in major races in Turkiye are returning to form after recovering from injury with training sessions led by their trainers at Lake Van. Horses that are injured or exhausted in races held in various cities receive care and treatment. (Photo by Necmettin Karaca/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Workers perform an ultrasound on a Green Sea turtle as part of a research to monitor turtles' health, weight and pollution level, by Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 27, 2024. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)





Najin, one of the last two northern white rhinos, is looked after at the Ol Pejeta conservation centre in Laikipia, Kenya on September 07, 2024. The northern white rhinos were once found in Central Africa, but illegal hunting fueled by the demand for rhino horn has decimated their presence in the wild. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A male Sumatran elephant calf named Rocky Balboa, born on May 25, 2024, stands next to its mother, a 40-year-old elephant named Lembang, at the Surabaya Zoo during the introduction of the 3-month-old calf to the public in Surabaya on August 31, 2024. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto/AFP Photo)





During the pannage season, farmers in the New Forest, UK exercise their right to set pigs out on forest lands, a right afforded to them by William the Conquerer to help reduce the number of ponies and cattle falling ill after eating the acorns and beech mast. (Phoot by Russell Sach/The Times)





Farmers put a bell around the neck of a cow, a day before the traditional Viehscheid festival in Hinterstein, Germany, 10 September 2024. Viehscheid and Almabtrieb are the names of the annual festival which takes place at the end of summer. During the festival the farmers lead their cattle from the mountain pastures to bring them back to the valleys. (Photo by Anna Szilagyi/EPA/EFE)





Local resident Phan Thi Tuyet, 50, carries her dogs as she is evacuated on a boat through a flooded street in Hanoi on September 10, 2024, a few days after Typhoon Yagi swept through northern Vietnam. Emergency workers raced to evacuate thousands of people from severe floods after Typhoon Yagi swept through northern Vietnam, killing 63 people and leaving 40 others missing. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)





A model walks a dog on the runway to present creations during the Catwalk Furbaby Fashion Show at New York Fashion Week, in New York City on September 5, 2024. (Photo by Kent J Edwards/Reuters)





Two cows and a stork stand in the drizzle on a pasture in the Taunus, Germany on September 9, 2024. According to the meteorologists' forecast, the weather is set to remain cool and rainy in the coming days. (Photo by Boris Roessler/dpa)