A man with a child and a dog takes shelter inside a metro station during a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 6, 2025. (Photo by Alina Smutko/Reuters)





A blue crab, a highly invasive alien species, is seen at Lio Piccolo during the reforestation day on April 05, 2025 in Venice, Italy. The island of Lio Piccolo in the northern lagoon of Venice is being replanted with 16,000 new trees that will protect the salt marsh ecosystem that is fundamental to the natural health of Venice and the lagoon by WOWnature project, an Etifor initiative. (Photo by Simone Padovani/Getty Images)





Kelly Garcia, owner of Garcia Hardware & Houseware, brushes Princesa as she sits at the check-out counter on New York's Upper West Side, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Photo by Richard Drew/AP Photo)





Pigeons wait for collection at Whiteleas in South Shields, Britain on April 4, 2025. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)





A monkey holds a fruit drink bottle and walks on a street during a hot weather day in New Delhi, India, 08 April 2025. According to the India Meteorological Department, heatwave conditions are persisting in the national capital and will continue for the next two days, and a yellow alert is in place as Delhi’s maximum temperature is to hit 41 degrees on 08 April. (Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA/EFE)





After Opi the pet duck sustained an injury during what Emily Davies, his owner, described as a “a mating session gone wrong” he was left struggling to walk. Davies got inventive and built Opi a wheelchair in the first decade of April 2025 to help him waddle again. (Photo by Wales News Service)





Pigeons in flight at start of the Up North Combined opening day race in Wetherby, Britain, on April 5, 2025. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)





Female gorilla Fatou, the oldest of Berlin's zoo and also believed to be the world's oldest gorilla, enjoys her birthday basket with a “gorilla food surprise”, as the zoo celebrates her 68th birthday in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 11, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A golf ball skips the water in front of two turtles near the 16th green during a practice round for the 2025 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, USA, 08 April 2025. (Photo by Cj Gunther/EPA/EFE)





A rare Snowy Owl with burnt orange markings perches in Huron County, Michigan on April 7, 2025 – the striking bird, captured by photographer Julie Maggert after a four-day, 900-mile pursuit, has baffled experts and captivated wildlife lovers around the world. (Photo by Julie Maggert/Two Point O Media/Cover Images)





An iguana crawls at the Seminario Park, also known as the “Iguana Park”, in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 9, 2025. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)





A law enforcement officer holds a blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) seized by police and members of the Administrative Department of Environmental Management (DAGMA) in the Santa Helena market in Cali, Colombia, on April 6, 2025. Environmental authorities seized 109 blue crabs in a market in Cali that were to be sold at Easter. (Photo by Joaquín Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





Dave Manchon and horse Vegemite ride in a Mercedes convertible during a media preview of the Royal Easter Show at the Sydney Show Ground, in Sydney, on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Photo by Dan Himbrechts/AAP Image)





Border Terriers, Rosie and Brodie, sit next to a repaired and repainted statue of Paddington Bear after being returned to its home on a bench in Newbury, Berkshire on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, after it was destroyed by vandals last month. (Photo by Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)





A bird pauses on the statue of the Firefighter Heroes in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





Marshmellow yawns while wandering the aisles at Deli & Grill, on New York's Upper East Side, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Photo by Richard Drew/AP Photo)





A wild elephant which strayed out of the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, possibly in search of food, crosses a road in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Genetically modified wolf pups Romulus and Remus, two of three successfully bred by reconstructing a genome from the ancient DNA of fossils from the dire wolf that had been extinct for over 12,500 years by Colossal Biosciences, billed as “the world’s only de-extinction company”, are seen a month after their October 1, 2024 birth in north Texas, U.S. (Photo by Colossal Biosciences/Handout via Reuters)





Zorro sits under a display of herbs and peppers at Zaragoza Mexican Deli & Grocery in New York, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Photo by Richard Drew/AP Photo)





A vet holds kittens at Van Cat Research and Application Center of Yuzuncu Yil University in Van, Turkiye on April 07, 2025. Van cats, which are under protection at the center, gave birth to their first kittens of 2025. (Photo by Emre Ilikan/Anadolu via Getty Images)