Ring-tailed Lemurs sit on a measuring scale as keepers at London Zoo record animals' vital statistics at the annual weigh-in as a way of monitoring their health, development and even identifying pregnancies, in London, Tuesday, August 19, 2025. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





A person treats a burned horse in an animal shelter, after a wildfire, in Tirana, Albania on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Florion Goga/Reuters)





The British angler Gary Newman in the second decade of August 2025 holds a goliath tigerfish, a razor-toothed predator often described as Africa’s version of the piranha. (Photo by Gary Newman/Bournemouth News)





A fox found hanging upside down with its leg stuck in a letterbox was freed by Liam Clement, a 16-year-old paper boy on August 20, 2025. The fox panicked and got stuck again in a nearby fence so a wildlife rescue charity was called and it is being treated at the South Essex Wildlife Hospital in Orsett, UK. (Photo by Solent News & Photo Agency)





An orphaned baby hedgehog, one of almost 400 being cared for at Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital in Buckinghamshire, UK, is fed with a pipette on August 20, 2025. The hospital, started 40 years ago by a family in their back garden, has treated more than 300,000 animal. (Photo by Jeff Moore)





A heron perches on a plastic container on Lake Suchitlan affected by the aquatic plant Pistia Stratiotes in Cuscatlan, El Salvador, 14 August 2025. Fishing and tourism are affected by the proliferation of the plant, which has covered practically the entire surface of the lake, causing economic losses for the inhabitants of the area. (Photo by Vladimir Chicas/EPA)





A fox yawns at the police lodge in Ercis district, where it comes every evening, in Van, Turkiye, on August 16, 2025. (Photo by Necmettin Karaca/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Members of Yogyakarta classic bicycle group pose with horses after taking part in a ceremonial event to mark the 80th Indonesian Independence Day on August 17, 2025 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia became an independent nation on August 17, 1945, having previously been under Dutch rule. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)





A sick California sea lion sits in a crate after being rescued on August 20, 2025, in Pebble Beach, California. The Marine Mammal Center is seeing an unprecedented surge of sick California sea lions, a vast majority infected with leptospirosis, a disease that can cause irreversible kidney damage. The Marine Mammal Center has seen over 100 sea lions with leptospirosis since July 1, and nearly two-thirds have not survived. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)





This picture taken on August 16, 2025, shows a competitor shearing a sheep during the Brewarrina Quick Shear competition, a popular rural event drawing shearers from across the region to showcase speed and skill in the heart of outback New South Wales. (Photo by Glenn Nicholls/AFP Photo)





Female pygmy hippo “Toni” gets showered in a pond in her enclosure during her farewell week before leaving Zoo Berlin, in Berlin, Germany, 20 August 2025. The pygmy hippopotamus, born on 03 June 2024, will move to Mulhouse Zoo in France. The move to France is being carried out on the recommendation of the European Endangered Species Program (EEP), which is intensively involved in the long-term prospects of this highly endangered species. The pygmy hippopotamus is classified as 'endangered' according to the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/EPA)





A pigeon sits on the cap of an Indonesian military personnel during a ceremony marking the country's 80th Independence Day, at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters)





Shire horses at the Wessex Historic Tractor and Implement Club’s Tracks Across The Field annual ploughing competition at Froxfield in Hampshire, UK on August 16, 2025. (Photo by Paul Jacobs/Picture Exclusive)





Milly Johnson, 16, and her sheep Kevin receiving her GCSE results at Tarleton Academy near Preston, Lancashire, UK on Thursday, August 21, 2025. Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving grades to help them progress to sixth form, college or training. (Photo by Eleanor Barlow/PA Wire)





Keeper Poppy Jewell strokes a Capybara as it is weighed, as keepers at London Zoo record animals' vital statistics at the annual weigh-in as a way of monitoring their health, development and even identifying pregnancies, in London, Tuesday, August 19, 2025. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





Louis the persian’s owners say he walks six miles a day and conquered the Three Peaks Challenge last year. Now the eight-year-old cat has completed the Great Ridge walk in the Peak District and, pictured, Catbells in the Lake District, UK in the second decade of August 2025. (Photo by Solent News & Photo Agency)





Keeper Jessica Ray weighs Humboldt Penguins as keepers at London Zoo record animals' vital statistics at the annual weigh-in as a way of monitoring their health, development and even identifying pregnancies, in London, Tuesday, August 19, 2025. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





A dog stands on the head and shoulders of a man during an event for followers of the Afro-Brazilian religions Candomble and Umbanda, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 17, 2025. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Jinny Lu, a 5-year-old pug, prepares to compete in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, California, on Friday, August 8, 2025. Jinny went on to win second place and a spirit award. (Photo by Noah Berger/AP Photo)





Staff photo by Matt Hamilton/ UTC student Chitra Karunanithi takes a picture of Arya Purohit as she performs yoga with goats from Goat Yoga Nashville on Chamberlain Field at UT Chattanooga for the first week of classes on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, Chattanooga, Tenn. (Photo by Matt Hamilton/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP Photo)