In this March 23, 2020 photo, Karina Briceno plays with beans amid chickens outside her home in the Nueva Esperanza shantytown in Lima, Peru, during a near-total 15-day quarantine to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)





Mohamed Sheikh Yakub, a patient suffering with mental illness, sits inside the treatment room where a hyena believed to exorcise evil spirits that cause mental illness is secured in a cage, in Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia on February 15, 2020. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)





Caretaker Ephraim Ngiribwa tends to baby orphaned chimpanzees at Lwiro Primates centre in Lwiro, South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 05 March 2020. (issued 17 March 2020) Chimpanzees in DR Congo are threatened by deforestation and poaching. Poachers will often kill a chimpanzee family for bushmeat and capture infants for sale, deeply traumatising them. “As a caretaker, I watch them, make sure they don't fight, I watch for disease and problems.... its step by step, we create a friendly atmosphere amongst them, they have to get used to one another and learn to be a new family”.The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to some of the world’s most biodiverse locations, however, conflict, poachers and lawlessness are a constant threat to the unique species inhabiting the forests. Conservation authorities have created a safe haven for threatened chimpanzees and several other species of monkey. Orphaned by poaching, saved from the pet or bushmeat trade, rescued primates are often traumatised and medically vulnerable. (Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA/EFE)





A pelican takes an interest in a couple enjoying some early spring sunshine in St James's Park in London on March 6, 2020, as the weather briefly brightens after a series of storms over the last month. (Photo by Isabel Infantes/AFP Photo)





A young Chinese girl wearing a mask as part of precautionary measures against the spread of the COVID-19, is seen at BeiHai Park on March 16, 2020 in Beijing, China. Since the new coronavirus Covid-19 first emerged in late December 2019, more than 170,000 cases have been recorded in 150 countries and territories, killing 6,500 people. (Photo by Fred Lee/Getty Images)





A mule deer is released by Division of Wildlife Resources employees after a health check at Hardware Ranch, near Hyrum Utah, on March 4, 2020. The staff collect data to come up with “body condition score”. They measure loin thickness, rump fat and physical size to arrive at an overall score of the percentage of body fat. These deer were captured and measured last fall, so the new data will reveal how well they did during winter, the most difficult time of the year. (Photo by Natalie Behring/AFP Photo)





A resident feeds monkeys with potatoes at Ode village, during the first day of a 21-day government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, some 25 kms from Ahmedabad on March 25, 2020. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)





A man in a face mask feeds pigeons in Milan, as the country is hit by the coronavirus outbreak, February 25, 2020. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)





A dog owner hugs her English Pointer on the second day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, Britain, March 6, 2020. (Photo by Eddie Keogh/Reuters)





A woman wearing a protective face mask walks her pig named Dior, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Testaccio district, in Rome, Italy on March 21, 2020. (Photo by Alberto Lingria/Reuters)





A dog wearing a mask is seen on a street following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shanghai, China on March 22, 2020. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





In this photo taken December 11 2012, a park ranger wearing a mask walks past a mountain gorilla in the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo. Congo's Virunga National Park, home to about a third of the world's mountain gorillas, has barred visitors until June 1 2020, citing “advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the COVID-19 virus”. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A young boy rides his bike past a deer wandering around the shopping area in Nara, Japan, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





Director and veterinary of the Hortobagy Bird Park Janos Deri (R) and an volunteer set one of twelve stork free after it was healed from its injury in the bird park in Hungary 14 March 2020. The bird was decorated with a removable ribbon with the national colours of Hungary to mark the national holiday on 15 March. (Photo by Zsolt Czegledi/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A park security guard wearing a protective face mask feeds a squirrel, following restrictions on access to city parks in an attempt to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 22, 2020. (Photo by Dimitar Kyosemarliev/Reuters)





Visitors take selfies at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu in China's southwestern Sichuan province on March 25, 2020. The base reopened to the public on March 25 after closing due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)