A veterinarian carries an injured bird he rescued in an area consumed by wildfires near the Transpantaneira, also known as MT-060, a road that crosses the Pantanal wetlands, near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Thursday, November 16, 2023. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)





Local resident Rita holds a cat while her neighbour Raisa saws firewood next to their residential building heavily damaged by permanent Russian military strikes in the front line town of Avdiivka, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via Reuters)





A participant falls with his horse as members of the security forces look on during the parade to mark the 113th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico on November 20, 2023. (Photo by Henry Romero/Reuters)





Foxhounds in the parade ring prior to racing at Cheltenham Racecourse on November 17, 2023 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)





Rio, a bulldog from rescue charity Pro Dogs Direct, arrives at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden in London, Saturday, November 18, 2023. Following the success of Broadway Barks in the US, stage icons Elaine Paige and Bernadette Peters hosted the first live West End Woofs (and meows) at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden. Bringing together much-loved talent of the West End and their four-legged friends for a dog and cat adoption event to raise money and awareness and find homes for animals in need of adoption. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





A baby interacts with dogs at the Pet Show in Sydney, Australia, on November 18, 2023. The Pet Show, the first national pet show in Australia, kicked off in Sydney on Saturday, featuring education, entertainment, and products for all dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles and small animals. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Welcome High Voltage, a red Persian cat, who is the reigning world champion 2023, is seen at the Supercatshow 2023 on November 11, 2023 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images)





A customer eats abalone from South Africa in Hong Kong, Saturday, April 22, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





82-year-old Bernd Dysel, and the three Tierpark alpacas Nelly, Lara Madonna and Peaces (r-l) greet the cashier from their zoo after a walk in the park in Delitzsch, Saxony on November 3, 2023. For 15 years, every Friday has been walk day for the three alpaca ladies, making it one of the most varied days of the week. The former marketing manager, who is known in his area as an alpaca breeder and alpaca whisperer, shares his love of alpacas in his retirement with his wife Anita, who worked as a traffic education lecturer. For both of them and the three residents of the zoo, the hour-and-a-half walk in the meadows and the adjacent park has become a fixed ritual in all weathers, much to the delight of visitors and walkers. (Photo by Waltraud Grubitzsch/Avalon)





Fernando de los Rios carries his dog Luti in a backpack as he attends a rally supporting presidential hopeful Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, November 5, 2023. Milei has gone from being a television talking head that garnered high ratings with his unrestrained outbursts against the “political caste” that he blamed for Argentina's perennial economic woes to a frontrunner for the presidency. A presidential runoff election is set for Nov. 19. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





Two birds play havoc with the autofocus on Jean-Jacques Alcalay-Marcon’s camera on the Galapagos Islands in November 2023. (Photo by Brigitte Marcon-Alcalay/Solent News)





Members of National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) try to move a carcass of a male whale shark, about 10 metres long and weighing 1.5 tonnes, for burial at Garongon Beach, Yogyakarta, on November 9, 2023. BKSDA reported that dozens of stranded whale sharks had been found on the southern coast of the Java Sea during this year's dry season. (Photo by Devi Rahman/AFP Photo)





Marcos Cruz, biologist and fauna management coordinator at Belo Horizonte International Airport, poses with Aurora, a Saker falcon who patrols the runways and airspace to scare away incursions of birds, at Belo Horizonte International Airport in Confins, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on November 14, 2023. The BH Airport concessionaire reported that more than 340 wild animals were captured in 2022 by the fauna management professionals at Belo Horizonte International Airport. Six birds, including hawks and falcons, have been trained to patrol the skies around the terminal, and a pointer dog runs after the birds, chasing them away, which has reduced bird-aircraft collisions. (Photo by Douglas Magno/AFP Photo)





Andre Bressan, trainer and donator, poses for a picture with dogs that are transported in a bus named “Escaolar”, with music and air conditioning, to a dog daycare in Icara, Santa Catarina state, Brazil on November 2, 2023. (Photo by Nilton Santos Junior/Reuters)





An Israeli soldier takes part in ground operations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at a location given as Gaza in this screen grab from a handout video released on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Israeli Defense Forces/Handout via Reuters)





An Amazon river dolphin, known as a boto, plays in a nature preserve and tourist visitation area on the banks of the Tocantis River, in the municipality of Mocajuba, Para state, Brazil, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)





A worker collects black soldier (Hermetia illucens) fly larvae at the production plant to produce food sustainably while conserving the environment for animals and pets in Guapiles, Costa Rica, on September 14, 2023. Raised on vertical farms and stuffed with fruit waste, flies have become animal feed and the mainstay of a circular economy venture in Costa Rica. (Photo by Ezequiel Becerra/AFP Photo)





Jodie Whileman, partner at the camel farm feeding donkey at the camel farm in Dubai on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Pawan Singh/The National)





A couple feeds seagulls at Bang Pu seaside resort in Samut Prakan province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





President Joe Biden stands next to Liberty, one of the two national Thanksgiving turkeys, after pardoning them during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, November 20, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)