Veterinarians diagnose and treat an exhausted young male brown bear named Ada at the center, for Rehabilitation of Protected Animals in Przemysl, Poland, on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. The bear was spotted Monday wobbling alone in the cold, snowy forest in southeastern Poland, with wolf tracks and blood spots nearby, while no sight of his mother. He remains in life-threating condition with neurological symptoms. (Photo by Rehabilitation of Protected Animals via AP Photo)





Olive Ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) hatchlings will be released into the sea at a sanctuary in the town of Naic, Cavite province, Philippines, 04 January 2022. According to village chief Roger Bilugan who runs the Labac sea turtle nesting facility, the number of sea turtles that laid eggs doubled in 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Restrictions on human movements, and the reduced ship-based activiites, are reasons for the increase of sea turtles visiting the Naic coastline which is their nesting place during this season, Bilugan added. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA/EFE)





A bevy of smooth coated otters crossing a park connector network are pictured against the city skyline at the Gardens by the Bay on January 3, 2022 in Singapore. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





In this photo provided by Tokyo Zoological Park Society, visitors use smartphones to take pictures of Japanese-born twin pandas and their mother at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Twin panda cubs made their first public appearance Wednesday before their devoted fans but only briefly – just for three days for now – due to the upsurge of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant. (Photo by Tokyo Zoological Park Society via AP Photo)





A murmuration of migrating starlings is seen across the sky near the city of Beer Sheva, southern Israel, December 28, 2022. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)





Olympic Cougar Project members work to replace the GPS collar on Lilu, a wild cougar, near Port Angeles, Washington, U.S., December 14, 2021. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Reuters)





Parents and children look at a Mandrill move a Christmas tree in the monkey enclosure after the children received a COVID-19 vaccine at the Antwerp Zoo in Antwerp, Belgium, Wednesday, January 12, 2022. In an effort to make children more at ease in getting their vaccine, specially designed safari tents with photos of zoo animals have been installed to provide a more private setting with a vaccinator. Once they have received the vaccine, children and parents can stroll through the greenhouse and visit the monkey enclosure. (Photo by Virginia Mayo/AP Photo)





A peacock walks around a residential street in Knutton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Britain, January 11, 2022. (Photo by Carl Recine/Reuters)





A man measures a green turtle after it was rescued from smuglers during a press conference at a pier in Serangan island near Denpasar, on Indonesia resort island of Bali on December 31, 2021. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP Photo)





Wild elephants scavenge for food at an open landfill in Pallakkadu village in Ampara district, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of the capital Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, January 6, 2022. Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in the open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants in the region, after two more were found dead over the weekend. Around 20 elephants have died over the last eight years after consuming plastic trash in the dump. Examinations of the dead animals showed they had swallowed large amounts of nondegradable plastic that is found in the garbage dump, wildlife veterinarian Nihal Pushpakumara said. (Photo by Achala Pussalla/AP Photo)





An undated handout picture released by UK veterinary charity PDSA on September 25, 2020 shows Magawa, an African giant pouched rat receiving a treat while at work detecting landmines in Cambodia. The rodent has won the animal equivalent of Britain's highest civilian honour for bravery on September 25, 2020 because of his uncanny knack of sniffing out landmines and unexploded ordnance. (Photo by PDSA/Handout via AFP Photo)





Magawa, the recently retired mine detection rat, plays with his former handler So Malen at the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem Reap, Cambodia, June 10, 2021. (Photo by Cindy Liu/Reuters)





Women hold disguised cuys or guinea pigs (Cavia Porcellus), a popular source of meat in southern Colombia, at the Cuy Festival in La Laguna municipality, Nariño department, Colombia, on January 7, 2022. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





A goldfish navigates on land using a fish-operated vehicle developed by a research team at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel, January 6, 2022. (Photo by Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)





Yanna Xian, 24, and her boyfriend Mitch Brown, 27, were swimming while on a boat tour off Honolulu, Hawaii last year, when a curious two-week-old humpback approached them. (Photo by South West News Service)