This handout photo taken and received from whale rescue charity Project Jonah via New Zealand's Department of Conservation on February 22, 2021 shows rescuers racing to save dozens of pilot whales that beached on a stretch of New Zealand coast at Farewell Spit, notorious for mass strandings. (Photo by Project Jonah/Handout via AFP Photo)





This picture taken on February 21, 2021 shows gray seals and sea calves lying on a beach near Calais, northern France. According to a study by the Eco-Seals project in the Hauts-de-France region in 2018, about 1100 seals live in the region. In the Bay of Somme, the number of seals increased by 14.4% between 1990 and 2017 and by 20% for gray seals. Disturbed by walkers, the seals risk leaving their shoals, claim the specialists. The sworn officers (gendarmes, guards from the national hunting office, etc.) who notice the disturbance of the colony, have the right to issue a ticket. (Photo by Denis Charlet/AFP Photo)





A handout photo made available by Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) shows veterinarian wearing protective masks and suit, conducting anesthesia procedure on Nenuah, a nine year old Bornean Orangutan before being transported and released to the Bukit Batikap protection forest, at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, 15 February 2021. BOSF and the national nature conservation agency (BKSDA) released 10 orangutans back to the wild in Bukit Batikap Protection Forest in Central Kalimantan and the Kehje Sewen Forest in East Kalimantan amid the pandemic according to BOSF. (Photo by BOSF Handout/EPA/EFE)





A stableboy bathes a horse at the Lambafar stable in Niaga, Rufisque department, Senegal, January 27, 2021. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





An American Bison (buffalo) rubs its head against a signpost in the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, about 45 minutes from downtown Des Moines, Iowa on February 19, 2021. The Wildlife Refuge has the largest herd of wild bison in Iowa and the only herd of wild elk in Iowa. Both animals were once native to Iowa and common in the state, but were hunted to extinction in 19th century. Controlled herds were reintroduced in the mid 20th century. Both the bison and elk herds are carefully managed to maintain genetic diversity. (Photo by Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Kyrgyz man rides a horse holding a golden eagle for an eagle hunt during the hunting festival “Salburun” in Tuura-Suu, a small village nestled among the mountains, about 250 km. (156 miles) south-east of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Salburun comes from the nomadic tradition of hunting and protecting herds from predators such as wolves. (Photo by Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo)





Raccoons are fed by an animal keeper at the Neumünster Zoo, Schleswig-Holstein on February 25, 2021. From 1 March 2021, after several months of lockdown in Schleswig-Holstein, zoos, zoos, garden centres, flower shops and nail salons will be allowed to reopen alongside hairdressing salons. (Photo by Axel Heimken/dpa)





Penguins of the Lasta-Rica circus at the Bryansk Regional Art Museum in Bryansk, Russia on February 25, 2021. The penguins came to the circus in March 2020, but all the events were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bryansk circus is opening after 10 months of down time. (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS)





Zacharia Kipkirui, one of the primary rhino caretakers at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy, with Najin, a female northern white rhino in Nanyuki, Kenya in April 2019. (Photo by Justin Mott/Media Drum Images)





A man walks past a goat, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Llandudno, Wales, Britain February 22, 2021. The herd of Kashmir goats has visited the seaside resort town several times since the coronavirus pandemic began, roaming streets emptied during lockdown and feasting on hedges. (Photo by Carl Recine/Reuters)





A hare runs over the runway at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, February 19, 2021. Due to the coronavirus there is less traffic at the airport since almost one year. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A handout photo made available by Galapagos National Park shows the reinsertion of 461 land iguanas on Santiago Island, Galapagos, 13 February 2021. Technicians from the Galapagos National Park reinserted 461 land iguanas on Santiago Island from another island in the Ecuadorian archipelago in order to return these reptiles to a habitat from which they had become extinct. (Photo by Galapagos National Park/EPA/EFE)





Federation Square on February 16, 2021 in Melbourne is quiet and empty with seagulls during a “circuit breaker” lockdown imposed suddenly by the Victorian Government. This is due to increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in north western Melbourne. (Photo by Chris Putnam/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)





A worker feeds a cat at the Ailuromania Cat Cafe, which offers therapy to human and adoption to cats in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on February 24, 2021. (Photo by Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)





A dog runs down the Stelvio slope on February 14, 2021 in Bormio's world famous ski resort in the Italian Alps. Italy's Health Ministry on February 14 banned amateur skiing activities until March 5, 2021, the expiry date of the government's latest decree, dashing the hopes of an entire sector. (Photo by Miguel Medina/AFP Photo)





A cat sits in the window of a frame shop in London, Britain, 28 February 2021. (Photo by Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA/EFE)





Polar bear Vitus is seen in his enclosure in a re-opened zoo, which was closed for several months due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, in Neumuenster, Germany, March 1, 2021. (Photo by Fabian Bimmer/Reuters)





Baarack the sheep is seen before his thick wool was shorn in Lancefield, Victoria, Australia February 5, 2021. Volunteers at Edgar's Mission, a sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Lancefield, Australia, said they rescued the wayward sheep in a state forest. “Beneath that convoluted moving mass of matted fleece, adorned with countless sticks, twigs and insects ... was not Australia's answer to the yeti – but a sheep”, they wrote in a Facebook post. (Photo by Edgar's Mission Inc/Handout via Reuters)





Indian forest workers watch as a rescued tigress leaps into the river Sundarikati on being released from a cage at Sunderbans, some 150 kms south of Kolkata on February 19, 2008. The pregnant tigress, which had strayed nearly 30 kms from deep inside the Sunderbans forest, was rescued by the forest workers after being stoned and badly beaten by villagers. (Photo by Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP Photo)





These picture show a rescued orangutan on its first day at “Forest School” on February 25, 2021 learning to climb a tree – after it developed a fear of heights in captivity. Kukur is just five-years-old and was rescued from a hut in West Borneo where he was being kept tied up as an illegal pet. He has now started the rehabilitation process as he learns to climb properly. Carers say life in captivity many apes like Kukur develop a fear of heights. (Photo by IAR Indonesia/Action Press/South West News Service)