A man carries a falcon during the Haddad Al-Tahadi Championship, as part of the activities of the Qatar International Falconry and Hunting Festival at the Sabkhat Marmi in Sealine, south of Doha on January 10, 2025. (Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP Photo)





Spanish driver Carlos Sainz drives by Arabian camels during Stage 2B of the 47th Dakar Rally between Bisha and Bisha, on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





A woman on skis walks her dog along the National Mall as snow falls during a winter storm in Washington, DC. on January 6, 2025. Dangerous wintry conditions affect a large swath of the central and eastern United States as a severe storm system continues to track eastward, prompting travel and work disruptions from Kansas City to Washington. (Photo by USA Today)





The endangered baby gorilla, found by Turkish Ministry of Trade Customs Enforcement teams at Istanbul Airport, plays with toys as it is named “Zeytin” (Olive) with the social media work initiated by the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Istanbul, Turkiye on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An Orca performs at the marine theme park Marineland in Antibes, south-eastern France, on January 2, 2025. Marineland park will close its doors to the public permanently on January 5, 2025. Created in 1970 and located in Antibes, Marineland is the largest marine zoo in Europe. The November 2021 law “banning cetacean shows means that Marineland will have to envisage this closure” in January 2025, said the park, adding 90 percent of its visitors come for its orca and dolphin performances. Marineland has until December 2026 to part with its two remaining killer whales, Keijo and Wikie. (Photo by Miguel Medina/AFP Photo)





The three-legged cat “Tripod”, who has become the mascot of tradesmen with his energetic nature despite his disability and lives in a veterinary clinic, plays with a toy at the veterinary clinic where she lives in Ankara, Turkiye on January 09, 2025. The cat named Tripot, who was noticed struggling to survive with one of her legs seriously injured after being stuck in the engine of a car when she was only 2 months old, recovered in a short time and clung to life. (Photo by Didem Mente/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A volunteer cleans up a bird from oil following a recent incident involving two tankers damaged in a storm in the Kerch Strait, at a veterinary clinic in the Black Sea resort city of Saki (Saky), Crimea, on January 8, 2025. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





This little spotted owlet has taken up residence in a terracotta pot in the grounds of Kanchannagar D N Das High School in Burdwan, West Bengal, India in the second decade of January 2025. (Photo by Prasenjit Dutta/Solent News)





A young grey seal scratches against a post in the dunes at Horsey in Norfolk on Friday, January 3, 2025, as the pupping season draws to a close at one the UK's most important sites for the mammals. Wardens from the Friends of Horsey Seals have done their final count and announced 3246 pups have been born this season. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





Security guards working at the solar power plant feed the fox named “Boncuk” with their hands as they become friends in Solhan district of Bingol, Turkiye on January 9, 2025. (Photo by Ridvan Korkulutas/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Police reunite stolen puppies with their owner after a break-in at a rural property in Shroton, Dorset, UK in the first decade of January 2025. Taken from their mother during the theft, the five-week-old puppies were tracked down after public appeals and an extensive investigation. (Photo by Anna Poe/South West News Service)





Marine specialists treat a sea turtle on a care barge in Tunisia's Kerkennah Island, the only one in the Mediterranean, on December 18, 2024. Harbouring netted enclosures underwater, the barge is used to treat injured loggerhead turtles, allowing the threatened species to receive care in saltwater, its natural habitat, and is the first floating rehabilitation centre for the species in the Mediterranean, organisers of the UN-funded project said. (Photo by Akim Rezgui/AFP Photo)





A tourist carrying a child shakes the paw of a stray dog at the Hypostyle Hall in the ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak in the southern city of Luxor on January 10, 2025. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





This handout photo released by Tennis Australia on January 10, 2025, shows Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka holding a wombat, a native Australian animal, ahead of the 2025 Australian Open in Melbourne. (Photo by Fiona Hamilton/Tennis Australia via AFP Photo)





A tortoise named Houdini walks on the street as powerful winds fueling devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area force people to evacuate, at the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, U.S. January 8, 2025. (Photo by David Swanson/Reuters)





Horses compete during the 22nd Ajman Arabian Horse Championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, concluded with the participation of 289 horses from various countries, on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Waleed Zein/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A dog rests on the shoulder of a sadhu or a Hindu holy man during the “Maha Kumbh Mela”, or the Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India, on January 14, 2025. (Photo by Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters)





A dog and people participate in the Great Meridian Chill Battle, an annual snowball fight, at Meridian Hill Park following a snowstorm on January 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. This snowball fight marks the 15th season of the event, organized by the Washington DC Snowball Fight Association. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)





On the afternoon of the January 3, 2025, seagulls are gathering around a child holding shrimp crackers at Haeundae Beach in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Dong-Hwan Kim)





A pelican (genus Pelecanus) is silhouetted against the first full moon of the year, also known as the wolf moon, in Puerto Caimito, Panamá, 13 January 2025. (Photo by Bienvenido Velasco/EPA/EFE)