A man dressed as Santa Claus dives at the Creta Aquarium in the city of Heraklion on the Greek southern island of Crete on December 14, 2019. (Photo by Jason Tavlas/AFP Photo)





A Sumatran orangutan accepts a banana before being repatriated from Thailand to Indonesia after having been smuggled into the kingdom, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok in December 17, 2020. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A motorist stops to take a closer look at the red deer alongside the A82 in Glencoe, Scotland on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





Dog-handler Paula Ziadi instructs Truman after he tracked down an 8ft python in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is beginning a new programme to use dogs to sniff out invasive pythons. (Photo by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission/AP Photo)





People train parrots during a parrot-training show held by Kuwaiti bird lovers in Jahra Governorate, Kuwait, December 7, 2020. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A person plays with a dog in the snow that fell during a Nor'easter storm amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 17, 2020. (Photo by David “Dee” Delgado/Reuters)





The Irish Guards' new canine regimental mascot, an Irish wolfhound called Turlough Mor, with his new handler, Drummer Adam Walsh of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, as he arrives at Wellington Barracks in London, United Kingdom on December 10, 2020. (Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)





A lady tries to feed a swan but seagulls invade the scene on a frosty start to the day at Nene Park in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom on December 31, 2020. (Photo by Paul Marriott/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Rashid Barzan Othman, a 30-year-old Syrian Kurd, poses while holding his pet lion cub in al-Malikiyah (Derik) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on November 29, 2020. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)





Athari Alkhaldi, the first Saudi woman to qualify and participate in the King Abdulaziz Falconry Festival, holds a falcon during the show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 6, 2020. (Photo by King Abdulaziz Falconry Media Center via Reuters)





Annie Orfalian, 45, walks near dogs at her dog shelter in Damascus, Syria on December 7, 2020. (Photo by Feras Makdesi/Reuters)





Foggy weather on Hampstead Heath in north London on Monday, December 28, 2020. (Photo by Matt Crossick/Empics via Getty Images)





Men from the Paiwan tribe push a cart with a pig to the wedding ceremony in Pingtung, Taiwan, December 12, 2020. (Photo by Ann Wang/Reuters)





A participant holds his tamed golden eagle during a traditional hunting contest, near the town of Esik in Almaty region, Kazakhstan on December 5, 2020. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





Two-year-old Sofia Fox is nuzzled by a donkey wearing a Santa hat in a shopping street in Galway, Ireland, December 22, 2020. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





A dog is transported in the taxi driven by Nicolas Walteros, in the company of his pet Coronel using Santa's hats, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Bogota, Colombia on December 23, 2020. (Photo by Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters)





A swimmer passes a Swan in Open Water at Serpentine Swimming Club on December 2, 2020 after the second national lockdown ends and England has a strengthened tiered system of coronavirus restrictions. (Photo by John Walton/PA Images via Getty Images)