Storks nest on the electric wires on the Berdesh-Rovya road in Duhok, Iraq on April 8, 2025. Storks are known as the harbinger of spring. (Photo by Muhammet Bamerni/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Two bear cubs, found by citizens in Karabuk and Bingol districts of Yenice, are being carefully cared for at the Celal Acar Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Bursa, Turkiye on April 17, 2025. (Photo by Fatih Capkin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Sophie, a cat that wandered onto the White House grounds, is held by Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent for USA Today, at the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington. (Photo by Alex Brandon/AP Photo)





Ignacio Idalsoaga, head of the Buinzoo in Santiago, Chile, feeds an Easter egg to ring-tailed lemurs, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)





Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, centre, with, Victoria Collins, Liberal Democrat MP for Harpenden & Berkhamsted, right, holds a hedgehog at the Hornbeam Hedgehog Sanctuary, in Harpenden, left, Martin Maylin, owner and manager of the sanctuary, as Ed Davey campaigns for local elections in Hertfordshire, UK on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Jacqueline Lawrie/London News Pictures)





An injured woman sits with her dog near a house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A volunteer releases toads and frogs from a bucket after carrying them across the road toward the lake near St. Petersburg, Russia on April 16, 2025. Every spring amphibians begin their migration. With the arrival of warmth, they move from the forests to the shores of the Sestroretsky Razliv to lay eggs. Their path crosses a roadway and to save their lives, volunteers carry them across the road as part of the “Roads for Amphibians!” campaign in the Sestroretskoye Bog nature reserve. (Photo by Andrei Bok/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Pigeons are released during the start of Up North Combine race in Worksop, Britain on April 18, 2025. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)





Ben Wilkes leading Gucci (L) and Diane Livingston leading Vivienne run along 90 Mile Beach during the final day of the the Great North Gallop on April 21, 2025 in Houhora, New Zealand. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Northland's wild beaches and dense forests, the Born to Run Great Northern Gallop is a one-of-a-kind 100km multi-day adventure race where participants run or walk alongside spirited miniature ponies. Each day covers 25km across terrain rarely open to the public, with runners and their tiny equine partners navigating stretches of the iconic 90 Mile Beach and remote wilderness, all while wild horses may be glimpsed roaming free. Evenings are spent camping near the coast, fostering camaraderie under the stars, and every team—whether seasoned athletes or families—receives training and support, ensuring both runners and ponies are cared for. Chloe Phillips-Harris organises the annual event to raise funds for the welfare of miniature horses in her care. She rescues and rehabilitates at least 15 ponies a year and takes them from crippling lameness, starvation and neglect to running 100km over four days. Chloe says the event takes people out of their comfort zone and shows how robust and capable these horses can be. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)





Arafat al-Qafarna, one of the Palestinian children displaced by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, spends his time playing with a pigeon at the large conference hall of the Islamic University, which has been turned into a temporary shelter, in Gaza City, Gaza on April 20, 2025. Arafat, who migrated with his family from the northern city of Beit Hanoun, is living with the birds he brought from his home and has been feeding for some time. (Photo by Mahmoud Abu Hamda/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A monkey holds an Easter egg given to him by staff at the Buinzoo in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)





A woman takes a selfie with her two dogs next to St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday April 24, 2025. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)





A trader pulls a sheep to sell in a street market a day before Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter Sunday,in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A police officer calms an injured dog near a multi-storey building damaged by a Russian strike on residential neighbourhood in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (Photo by Kateryna Klochko/AP Photo)





A meerkat sits on a deckchair at Peak Wildlife Park in Leek, England, on Friday, April 11, 2025. (Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Wire via AP Photo)





A student in hazmat suit moves around a taxidermied giraffe at the “crime scene” set up in the warehouse of the Wildlife Forensic Academy in the Buffelsfontein Game and Nature Reserve near Cape Town, on April 16, 2025. The crime scene was carefully set up by the Wildlife Forensic Academy, a training centre that aims to fight poaching by teaching investigation skills to rangers, conservation officers, law enforcement and students. Set inside a sunny warehouse in a private game reserve an hour north of Cape Town, the academy recreates poaching scenarios featuring taxidermied victims like “Frikkie”, the rhino who was poached a few years ago. By teaching how to protect a crime scene, find and collect evidence and later present a testimony in front of a court, they hope to strengthen prosecution of wildlife crime across Africa. (Photo by Marco Longari/AFP Photo)





An iguana is seen at the Seminario Park, also known as the “Iguana Park”, in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 9, 2025. (Photo by Raúl Arboleda/AFP Photo)





Wild elephants enter an army cantonment near Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, possibly in search of food, in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Rosie Payne, 12, feeds the alpacas and llamas at West Wight farm in Yarmouth, UK on April 20, 2025. (Photo by Vicki Couchman for the Times)





Weimaraner with his owner enjoys riding on a Vespa in Belgrade on April 19, 2025. (Photo by Milan Maricic/ATAImages)