Urki, a male Iberian lynx, a feline in danger of extinction, is released with other four lynxes as part of the European project “Life LynxConnect” to recover this species, in the Arana mountain range, in Iznalloz, near Granada, southern Spain on February 20, 2024. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





A dog dons an alligator costume during the “Blocao” dog Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, February 10, 2024. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)





A dog named Tunito takes part in the “Blocao” dog Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, February 10, 2024. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)





A dog shakes the sand out of its fur at the Woodbine Beach during a sunny day in Toronto, Ontario on February 20, 2024. (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A Scottish Fold cat is held up by a judge at the Cat Extravaganza event at Olympia in London, Sunday, February 18, 2024. Loving Cats Worldwide brought its Cat Extravaganza and Rescue Awareness Event to London, where visitors could learn all about this intelligent species by observing the show's five judging rings. Plus, meet with local rescues and charities, as well as hear educational anecdotes about different cat breeds. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





70 years old Tukezziban Pastutmaz, living in Kuyucuk village of Kars, a goose breeder for 50 years poses for a photo with a goose in Kars, Turkiye on January 20, 2024. Goose breeding, which constitutes an important source of income for the local people, is widely practiced in the city, especially in the form of family farms. Female goose breeders look after and raise goose since their youth age despite the harsh climate conditions. (Photo by Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This handout photo taken on February 17, 2024 and released on February 19 by Thailand's Customs Department shows star tortoises in a cardboard box that were rescued after being found in the luggage of a man travelling to Mongolia, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok. A Mongolian man has been arrested at Thailand's main airport for allegedly trying to smuggle komodo dragons, pythons, tortoises and 24 live fish out of the country, authorities said on February 19, 2024. (Photo by Thailand's Customs Department/Handout via AFP Photo)





A black golden shaded British Shorthair cat is admired by visitors as he is carried at the Cat Extravaganza event at Olympia in London, Sunday, February 18, 2024. Loving Cats Worldwide brought its Cat Extravaganza and Rescue Awareness Event to London, where visitors could learn all about this intelligent species by observing the show's five judging rings. Plus, meet with local rescues and charities, as well as hear educational anecdotes about different cat breeds. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





An owner prepares her cat during a show organised by the Kuwait Cat Club in Kuwait City on February 17, 2024. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





Second Sergeant Ronaldo Sousa of the 8th Military Police Battalion of the State of Para gives a brief demonstration of patrolling after preparing the buffalo Minotauro for in the city of Soure, Marajo Island, Brazil on January 27, 2024. For many years, police in the city of Soure on the Brazilian island of Marajo have been using buffaloes to patrol the island, especially in remote areas that cannot be reached by other means of transportation. The 8th Buffalo Battalion, which has been active since 1992, is especially active in wetlands and areas where other vehicles cannot enter. Buffaloes have become a symbol of the island of Marajo. (Photo by Anderson Barbosa/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Jameela, a western lowland gorilla, is being hand-reared by keepers after being born five weeks premature at Fort Worth Zoo, Texas. Vets intervened when her mother, Sekani, showed signed of preeclampsia, and an obstetrician more used to delivering human babies helped perform the zoo’s first emergency caesarian section. Photo released February 16 2024. (Photo by South West News Service)





A tagged adult horseshoe crab is seen before its release into Tung Chung Bay, marking the initiation of the first underwater automated acoustic telemetry system for a pilot tracking study of endangered horseshoe crabs, in Hong Kong, China, on February 21, 2024. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





A local resident holds her dog as she stands near her apartment building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Roman Baluk/Reuters)





Aleksandr Batrak sits with his pet bird in an evacuation train in Pokrovsk, Ukraine on February 20, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Tiffany Pierre, partner of Gregory Guiot, from Belgium's Wallonia region, pets Oscar, an 80-kg wild boar which lives with them at their home, after the animal was rescued during a hunting trip with their dog when it was a 700-gram boar, in Laneuville, Belgium on February 12, 2024. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)





Holger, a local citizen, votes as his dog Oskar waits during a partly rerun election of the German federal parliament from September 26, 2021, after Germany's constitutional court decision, in Berlin, Germany on February 11, 2024. (Photo by Annegret Hilse/Reuters)





A dog wears a headdress during the “Blocao” dog Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, February 10, 2024. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)





A donkey dressed as groom stands amidst the media personnel after symbolical solemnization of the marriage between two donkeys on the occasion of Valentine's Day celebrations, in Bengaluru on February 14, 2024. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





Laura Carreno, wild animals veterinary, holds a Bengal Tiger cub born in captivity at the “Reserva La Pequena Africa” in Jimena de la Frontera, near Cadiz. The baby bengal tiger was born on December 29, 2023. Tigers are classified as endangered on the Red List of threatened species prepared by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). Of the nine subspecies that existed, only six remain today: the Bengal tiger, the Amur tiger, the South China tiger, the Sumatran tiger, the Indochina tiger and the Malayan tiger. (Photo by Jorge Guerrero/AFP Photo)





Couples ride elephants during a Valentine's Day celebration, at the Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chonburi province, Thailand, on February 14, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)