A cat named Lola waits in her kennel before receiving a blessing during a religious ceremony held in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment, in Panama City, Panama, on October 5, 2025. (Photo by Enea Lebrun/Reuters)





A visitor takes images of a Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) in their newly renovated habitat at the Lisbon Oceanarium on October 8, 2025. The recent renovation of the penguin habitat — which houses a total of 29 Magellanic penguins and 12 Inca terns — marks the first major reconstruction of one of the original exhibits at the Lisbon Oceanarium, opened in 1998 for the Expo '98 World's Fair. (Photo by Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP Photo)





A dog named Cooky waits to receive blessings during a religious ceremony held in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment, in Panama City, Panama, on October 5, 2025. (Photo by Enea Lebrun/Reuters)





Police stand guard before a press conference on the extradition of “Tren de Aragua” gang members from the United States, at the a high-security prison where they are being held in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, October 1, 2025. (Photo by Esteban Félix/AP Photo)





A European Tree Frog,hyla arborea, once native to the UK, in its enclosure at Celtic Rewilding in Staffordshire on October 14, 2025 in Leek, England. The small frog likely went extinct in the UK in the 16th to 17th century, due to habitat loss and over-collection for medicinal purposes. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





Giant pandas eat mooncakes to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chongqing Zoo, China, on October 6, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Vet Elliott Simpson-Brown monitors the heart and breathing of Lira the lion during dental surgery at the Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, UK on October 12, 2025. Lira is one of four lions rescued from Ukraine after being abandoned during the war. (Photo by Richard Pohle/Times Media Ltd)





A pelican investigates a fallen ketchup bottle outside a cafe in St James’s Park in London, England on October 9, 2025. The species has lived there for hundreds of years and remain a popular sight for visitors. Introduced in 1664 as a gift from the Russian ambassador, about 40 pelicans have since made the park their home. The bottle was safely retrieved from the pelican. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News)





A woman embraces a rabbit rescued from the debris of destroyed houses after an attack that authorities blame on a dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Robles, Colombia, Thursday, October 9, 2025. (Photo by Santiago Saldarriaga/AP Photo)





A woman holds her dog to be blessed by a priest at a church during the ceremony commemorating the Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 4, 2025. (Photo by Tita Barros/Reuters)





A man carries his dog along the Avenue Champs Elysees as over 500 dogs take part in the “Marche Des Animaux” (Animal Walk) to celebrate World Animal Day on October 05, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Kiran Ridley/Getty Images)





A bull elk joins other elk in wandering through the parking lot of a shopping center Wednesday, October 1, 2025, in Estes Park, Colo. (Photo by David Zalubowski/AP Photo)





Natalie Gudgeon, a former teacher who now works with deaf and neurodivergent students, with her assistance dog Oakley at the Conservative Party conference on October 7, 2025 in Manchester. (Photo by James Glossop/The Times & Sunday Times)





A Squirrel eats food given on a wall in Siliguri, West Bengal, India on October 10, 2025. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Feven Melesein, 29-years-old, holds a dog that was abandoned on the streets of the capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday, September 7, 2025. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





Women walk by cats at a park in Strovolos area of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, October 6, 2025. (Photo by Petros Karadjias/AP Photo)





A cat walks on debris in a church damaged by Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters)





A cheeky juvenile fox played a game of peek-a-boo with an amateur photographer in Surbiton, Surrey, UK in the first decade of October 2025. (Photo by Dimitar Nedelchev/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A demonstrator holds a dog and a Palestinian flag during a pro-Palestinian protest after Israeli forces intercepted the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, on the day of the two-year anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza, in Mexico City, Mexico on October 7, 2025. (Photo by Raquel Cunha/Reuters)





A Loggerhead sea turtles is seen being released at La Marina Beach in Elche, Spain, 07 October 2025. Thirty-six loggerhead sea turtles were released into the sea, all of which were part of a nesting event in 2024 of turtles bred in captivity at the Oceanografic Aquarium in Valencia. (Photo by Morell/EPA)