Yevdokiia Beznoshchenko, 78, stands near her house in a Chornobyl exclusion zone village from which the locals were evacuated in 1986 around the Chornobyl nuclear power plant near a Belarus border, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Ukraine on October 18, 2023. This overgrown wilderness virtually devoid of people where buildings disappeared under a tangle of foliage is still home to a handful of pensioners who have stubbornly resisted leaving and vitally depend on Ukraine's military aid since the bridges were destroyed due to Russia's attack on Ukraine. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A dog sits in the stands during game two of the ALDS for the 2023 MLB playoffs between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on October 8, 2023. (Photo by Tommy Gilligan/USA TODAY Sports)





A green garden mantis has climbed on a man's hand and is behaving like a funny dog at Tehatta, West Bengal, India on October 15, 2023. The praying mantis are predatory insects that gets their name because they have very long folded forelegs held close together, and they are held in a position that reminds people of praying. There are about 1,800 species of praying mantids around the world. Praying mantids are carnivores, eating mainly insects and other small animals. Many gardeners and farmers welcome mantids because the insects they eat are often pests that hurt crops. In addition to insects such as crickets and grasshoppers, mantids eat spiders, frogs, lizards, and even small birds. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Members of the emergency services evacuate local residents from a flooded area in Brechin, Scotland, Friday October 20, 2023. The gale-force winds are expected to hit hardest the eastern part of Denmark's Jutland peninsula and the Danish islands in the Baltic Sea. But the British Isles, southern Sweden, northern Germany and parts of Norway also on the path of the storm, named Babet by U.K.’s weather forecaster, the Met Office. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/PA via AP Photo)





Visitors to West Midlands Safari Park in Bewdley, UK on October 17, 2023 are enjoying the bright October sunshine ahead of the storms to come. A curious giraffe meets eye to eye with a car full of happy visitors while licking the car windscreen with his long tongue. (Photo by Lee Hudson/Alamy Live News)





Measuring the Worlds largest moth, Uma Low (11) from Alva, Scotland, notes the Atlas's (Attacus Atlas) record breaking 27 centimetre wingspan whilst on an education trip to the Stratford butterfly farm in Warwickshire on October 17, 2023, where the moth, the size of a dinner plate, is the first to emerge from a cocoon in over two and a half years amongst the tropical environment. Emerging from it's cocoon, the species common to Thailand joins up to 250 different types of tropical butterfly from twenty countries flying in the rainforest conditions and will use it's wing tips that are reminiscent of snakes heads to warn off any predators in it's short week long life span. (Photo by Russell Sach)





People move a green turtle at a conservation place after being rescued by Indonesian Marine Police office, in Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on October 17, 2023. The Indonesian Marine Police thwarted the smuggling of 11 green turtles which at that time were about to carry out sale and purchase transactions in the West Bali National Park area, Melaya District, Jembrana Regency on 17 October 2023. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP Photo)





Baby squirrels, which lost their mother, are seen in Duzce, Turkiye on October 17, 2023. Baby squirrels taken under protection by the Duzce Department of Nature Conservation and National Parks teams after their mother was found dead. (Photo by Omer Urer/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Siobhan O'Donnell washes Amelia's Jewel after a trackwork session at Caulfield Racecourse on October 10, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)





Veterinarians Carolina Saenz (L) and Estefania Rubio treat a six-month-old silvery woolly monkey (Lagothrix poeppigii), species in danger of extinction, at the TUERI Wildlife Hospital, created by the San Francisco University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), in Quito on October 2, 2023, after it was seized in Puerto Francisco de Orellana, also known as El Coca, by the Environment Ministry and taken to this centre for evaluation. A pair of caged jaguars on a hacienda has uncovered a cruel trend among Ecuador's drug traffickers. In the style of cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, drug lords set up clandestine zoos that endanger the fauna in a megadiverse country. This is not the only case, but it is one of the most striking. (Photo by Galo Paguay/AFP Photo)





An Abyssinian cat is seen during the Sofisticat International Cat Show in Bucharest, Romania on October 21, 2023. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A bear eats a sandwich thrown by a passing driver, while another driver films with his mobile phone, on September 29, 2023, on a road in Covasna, Romania. It was the unexpected sight that made cars stop on a winding forest road in central Romania – a brown bear asleep, its head on its paws. In Romania, whose Carpathian Mountains are home to the largest brown bear population in Europe outside Russia, bears are increasingly venturing out of the forests – often attracted by food that tourists throw to them. (Photo by Andrei Pungovschi/AFP Photo)





Melissa Chavez feeds a treat to her toy poodle Milo, Thursday, August 24, 2023, in New York. Chavez decided to get a dog in the summer of 2020, she had an idea of the costs but was surprised by how fast they added up.When (Photo by Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo)





A woman drives a motorbike through a flooded road following recent rains in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, October 24, 2023. (Photo by Heng Sinith/AP Photo)





Undated handout photo issued by Guinness World Record/Whiskas of 14-year-old cat named Bella from Cambridgeshire, which has broken the Guinness World Record for the loudest purr. Bella, from Huntingdon, achieved a purr which measured 54.6 decibels, which is equivalent to the volume of a boiling kettle. Issue date: Tuesday October 17, 2023. (Photo by Guinness World Record/Whiskas/PA Wire)





A participant carries her pet dog as she runs through a foam bath during the “Colour My Run” charity fun run in Ta' Xbiex, Malta on October 15, 2023. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)





Pavel Ciechomovicz rescues his labrador Nanij from flooding on Main St., Midelton, Co.Cork, Ireland on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision/The Irish Times)





Visitors watch maritime animals in one of the aquariums at the “Nausicaa Centre National de la Mer”, the National Maritime Center, in Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France, 15 October. Nausicca is Europe's biggest aquarium and one of the top five in the world with unique conservatory of oceanic biodiversity and is home to over 58,000 animals. (Photo by Olivier Hoslet/EPA)





Steve Platt, right, and Steve Williams prepare to catch a swan for medical examinations on Lake Morton during the 43rd annual swan roundup Tuesday, October 10, 2023, in Lakeland, Fla. The late Queen Elizabeth II of England gifted the original pair of swans to the city back in 1957. (Photo by Chris O'Meara/AP Photo)





Alice, center, sits in her stroller dressed as a queen, during the First Annual Kalorama Park Halloween Dog Parade on Saturday, October 21, 2023 in Kalorama Park near the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)