Pucho and its caretake are sprinkled with holy water during a Blessing of the Animals service at San Francisco Church in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, October 4, 2024, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo)





A lifeguard hut is on its side after Hurricane Milton at Clearwater Beach, Fla., on Friday, October 11, 2024 (Photo by Haven Daley/AP Photo)





Geese are reflected in a puddle as they walk past the skyline in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, October 11, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Two humpback whales make a splash in front of a crowd of onlookers in California in the first decade of October 2024. (Photo by JodiFrediani/Caters News Agency)





Duck Hospital volunteers Kari Wright (L) and Brianna Rigg (R) evaluate a sick duck that was found at the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge on October 03, 2024 in Dorris, California. An avian botulism outbreak at the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge has killed over 90,000 ducks and waterfowl since late August, the most severe outbreak in the refuge's recorded history. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ended the collection of sick and dead birds today and estimates that tens of thousands more birds could still be sickened or die in the coming weeks. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)





A stag follows a hind over a road in a forest of the Taurus region near Frankfurt, Germany, as rutting times slowly comes to an end, Friday, October 11, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force One safety officer Shayne Anderson pets search dog Saturn, 5, as members of the task force gather before they prepare to deploy ahead of Hurricane Milton, Wednesday, October 9, 2024, in Doral, Fla. (Photo by Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)





Turkish citizens carry their cats as they wait to board a Turkish navy vessel to be evacuated to Turkey at a gathering point, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, October 9, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Boki, a two-year-old brown bear is prepared ahead of surgery by specialist wildlife veterinary surgeon, Romain Pizzi at the Wildwood Trust in Kent on Wednesday, October 9, 2024. The surgery to drain fluid from the brain of Boki is first time an operation of this kind has been carried out in the UK. An MRI scan earlier this year on Boki, who had been suffering from seizures and related health issues, revealed he has hydrocephalus (fluid on the brain). (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)





A goggle-wearing dog is strapped to a motorcycle driver's back as they wait at a stoplight in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, October 9, 2024. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





A view of two kittens named “Duman” and “Alev” who were rescued from an engine compartment of the vehicle by the fire brigade driver Huseyin Gedikli, who then adopted the kittens and brought them to his workplace in Duzce, Turkiye on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Omer Urer/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A fox passes by the military honor guard prior to the welcoming ceremony for the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani on October 8, 2024 at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP Photo)





A dog is groomed by students of the Advanced Grooming Techniques course of Senac (National Business Learning Service) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 7, 2024. In Brazil, the expression 'dog's life' takes on a whole new meaning. With twice as many dogs and cats as children, Latin America's largest country offers all kinds of attention and vanities for the furry ones. (Photo by Pablo Porciuncula/AFP Photo)





A dog on a leash reacts to a cyber dog being operated in a park in Kyiv, Ukraine, 13 October 2024. Ukraine could soon unleash robot dogs on its front lines, replacing soldiers for perilous missions according to some media reports. Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory on 24 February 2022, starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA)





A lion plays with the padlock of their enclosure at the Daarusalaam zoo that offers a rare glimpse of wildlife to residents of the conflict-torn nation, in Mogadishu, Somalia on September 27, 2024. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Your’re my wonderwall – Liam, one of two endangered African penguin chicks that were named after the Oasis frontmen, at Hertfordshire Zoo, UK in the first decade of October 2024. (Photo by Hertfordshire Zoo/PA Wire)





Mallory Tollett, 12, comforts her dog Maggie after a suspected tornado went through her family's property along Southeast Azimuth Way as Hurricane Milton bands move through Port Salerno, Florida, U.S., October 9, 2024. (Photo by Crystal Vander Weit/USA TODAY Network via Reuters)





A monkey named Miguel receives a Franciscan's blessing during a mass in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi on the Saint’s feast day in Brasilia, Brazil on October 4, 2024. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)





A Chacma baboon feeds during a raid on refuse bins by a troop of Chacma baboons foraging in the residential neighborhood of Capri in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Nic Bothma/Reuters)





Bison roam the land on Antelope Island at the Great Salt Lake on September 10, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where bison arrived in 1893 and remain in one of the oldest and largest publicly owned bison herds in the country. In forty years, the Great Salt Lake has lost two-thirds of its surface area, a victim of an agricultural sector and a mining industry that consume too much water, and of global warming which reduces the flow of the rivers that feed it. reaching a historic low in 2022. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)