A dog licks its nose in front of a Ukrainian Mi-24 combat helicopter in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, March 18, 2023. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A wounded baby nutria Denny Lacoste rescued is photographed in Metairie, La. Monday, March 13, 2023. Denny and Myra Lacoste have run afoul of state law by keeping a 22-pound nutria – a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered a wetlands-damaging pest – as a pet that frolics with their dog, snuggles in their arms and swims in the family pool. (Photo by David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP Photo)





African refugee woman from Nigeria works as cat caretaker for upper-middle-class family in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil on August 21, 2022. Nigerian refugee women live on the outskirts of the city, work as helpers in car junkyards, make a living from food donations, and face problems such as racism, xenophobia and unemployment. More than 2,000 Nigerians were living in Brazil illegally and without proper documentation before February 9, 2009, when they began to enjoy the amnesty offered by the Brazilian government. (Photo by Fabio Teixeira/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A Palestinian fisherman washes up a manta ray on the beach of Gaza City, Sunday, March 12, 2023. Gaza fishermen catch the rare, endangered rays when they pass offshore during their winter migration. They say they know the rays are protected, but Israeli limitations on the size of an authorized fishing area leaves them no other option. Impoverished Gazans buy it as a source of protein because it's cheap, with a kilogram (2.2 pounds) sold for around $3. (Photo by Fatima Shbair/AP Photo)





Jack Morley skateboards with his dogs, Mystic, a Norwegian Elkhound, and Astra, a Collie, on the pier in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland on March 20, 2023. (Photo by Tom Honan/The Irish Times)





A commuter with a dog stands on a Berlin transport company BVG subway platform at Alexanderplatz station during a nationwide strike called by the German trade union Verdi over a wage dispute, in Berlin, Germany on March 27, 2023. (Photo by Annegret Hilse/Reuters)





This frame grab taken from video footage provided by the Gwangjin Fire Station on March 23, 2023 and made available via AFPTV on March 24 shows Sero the zebra walking past handlers after escaping from his pen at the Seoul Children's Grand Park in Seoul. A zebra that escaped its pen and roamed freely for hours through the South Korean capital, captivating the internet and sparking thousands of memes, is safely back at the zoo, officials told AFP on March 24. (Photo by Handout/AFP Photo)





Musher Richie Diehl takes one of his dogs back to it's his trailer before the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Saturday, March 4, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska. Warm weather is making it tough sledding for mushers in this year's Iditarod, and Diehl said the conditions could be “soft and punchy”. (Phoot by Mark Thiessen/AP Photo)





A child carries a goat on her shoulders through a flooded river caused by last week's heavy rains caused by Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Phalombe, southern Malawi Saturday, March 18, 2023. Authorities are still getting to grips with destruction in Malawi and Mozambique with over 370 people confirmed dead and several hundreds still displaced or missing. (Photo by Thoko Chikondi/AP Photo)





A soldier carries a dog found among the rubble of buildings destroyed by a deadly landslide that buried dozens of homes in Alausi, Ecuador, Monday, March 27, 2023. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo)





A young sloth named Gloria, that was rescued after being stolen and destined for trafficking, is released back into the wild by Roched Seba, president of the Free Life Institute NGO, and the biologist of the city's Botanical Garden, Marina Bordinat, at the city's Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, March 13, 2023. The Free Life Institute returns rehabilitated animals back to the wild when possible. Those that are too injured to be released are sent to other rehab centers or sanctuaries to live out their lives in protected environments. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





A keeper lets out a white rhino to outside enclosure at the Safari Park in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic, 14 March 2023. The third calf of the seriously endangered eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) has been born in just one year in the Safari Park Dvur Kralove, zoo located 150 kilometres east of Prague. According to the zoo, Safari's cubs represent fifty percent of all cubs born in zoos in a given period. Worldwide population of this species, decimated in their natural habitat by hunting and poaching for their horns, is estimated at 800. The newborn male is the 49th addition to the breeding population of eastern black rhinoceros in Dvur Kralove which began in the 1970s. It currently lives in a safari 15 eastern black rhinoceros, the largest group in the gardens worldwide. In the past years also repeatedly eastern black rhinos from Dvur Kralove headed back to Africa, specifically to Tanzania and Rwanda. (Photo by Martin Divisek/EPA/EFE)





A group of animal lover from Aleppo treat several of cats and dogs injured in areas affected by the earthquakes that hit Syria and Turkiye in Idlib, Syria, on March 12, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A man from Ernesto's Sanctuary for Cats spends time with injured cats in areas affected by the earthquakes that hit Syria and Turkiye in Idlib, Syria, on March 12, 2023. The group helped nearly 2200 animals mostly cats. (Photo by Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A boy holds a green sea turtle hatchling before releasing it at Pekan Bada beach on the outskirts of Banda Aceh on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)





A cat called Lucas wears a tie in a store in Bogota, Colombia on March 17, 2023. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)





A Ukrainian serviceman rides a horse during a hippotherapy session in Kyiv on March 17, 2023. In a cosy barn on the outskirts of Kyiv, a group of Ukrainian soldiers are taking a break from battle with a session of hippotherapy – using riding and contact with horses to achieve a therapeutic effect. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A pensioner caresses Dounka, a 10 years old mare, used to work with old people at the MARPA (Maisons d'Accueil et de Residence pour l'Autonomie) “Pays de Courbet” in Ornans, eastern France, on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Sebastien Bozon/AFP Phoot)





An elephant stands painted with decorative motifs in preparation of the annual Rath Yatra, or the chariot procession of Lord Jagannath, in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, June 30, 2022. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





A dog is dressed up during the celebration in honor of Saint Lazarus, in the Santa Maria Magdalena church in Masaya, Nicaragua, 26 March 2023. The festivities of Saint Lazarus, the patron saint of dogs, take place on the fifth day of Lent annually. The dogs parade in costumes along with their owners through the streets of the city, accompanied by music until they reach the church of Santa Maria Magdalena. Finally, a contest for the best outfit is traditionally held. (Photo by Jorge Torres/EPA)