Jury member Nicole Kidman attends the Jury Press Conference. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

A large Pacific sideband snail slowly crosses a rain wet road in rural Douglas County, Oregon near Elkton on Sunday, December 2, 2012. The moisture loving snail should be very content with the recent heavy rains in southwestern Oregon and northern California. (Photo by Robin Loznak)

A man transports passengers on an improvised motorized rickshaw during heavy rains in Agartala, India, April 20, 2018. (Photo by Jayanta Dey/Reuters)

Italy is the latest country to boast a sеx doll brothel amid predictions the market for robot romps is “going to explode” world-wide. “LumiDolls”, which operates robot knocking shops in Barcelona and in Moscow is now opening a bot bonking branch in the Italian city of Turin on September 3, 2018. (Photo by Giulio Lapone/IPA/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Daniel Cheong, a dog behaviorist and trainer, steps over a leash as he walks a pack of dogs in Arlington, Va. on November 13, 2018. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

A young visitor interacts with a baby hippopotamus swimming in its enclosure at the Berlin Zoo on January 1, 2018. Tourists and locals flocked to the zoo in the German capital on the unseasonably warm first day of the year. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP Photo)

Teachers, students and sympathizers take part in an anti-government protest in Budapest on March 15, 2023, to mark the 175th anniversary of the 1848-1849 Hungarian Civic Revolution and War of Independence. (Photo by Peter Kohalmi/AFP Photo)

“Himalayan Dog”. This dog just appeared out of nowhere and followed us for an entire week during our trekking trip in the Himalayan outback. He always used to sleep in front of our tent and guarded us in the nights. When I decided to get up at 4 a.m. to climb the next 5000 m peak for sunrise he accompanied me as well. On the top he was sitting for the entire 30 minutes on this place looking straight into the countryside. Photo location: Ladakh, India. (Photo and caption by Sebastian Wahlhuetter/National Geographic Photo Contest)