Punxsutawney Phil's handler A.J. Dereume holds the famous groundhog during the 136th Groundhog Day, at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 2, 2022. (Photo by Alan Freed/Reuters)





A ferret plays with its owner's hair ahead of the Ferret Racing Championship at the Craven Arms and Cruck Barn in Appletreewick, Britain, February 16, 2022. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)





A bloodied bull is taunted by onlookers during the running of the bulls to celebrate the feast of the virgin of Candelaria in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz state, México, Tuesday, February 1, 2022. (Photo by Felix Marquez/AP Photo)





This undated photo provided by The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota, shows a lead-poisoned bald eagle in St. Paul, Minn. Victoria Hall, veterinarian and executive director of the center, said that “85 to 90% of the eagles that come into our hospital have some level of lead in their blood”, and we know that no level is safe.” X-rays often show fragments of lead bullets in their birds' stomachs. (Photo by The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota via AP Photo)





Kiwi the dog sports a shiny outfit while being walked by the Sea of Azov in Mariupol, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, February 13, 2022. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





A horse is paraded during the Arabian Horse Festival at the Bait al-Arab in Kuwait City on February 5, 2022. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A young man carries a pet infant monkey in the corridors along a popular habour that is frequently visited by tourists for its old history in the downtown alleyways of an old fort, in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania, on 17 February 2022. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA/EFE)





Two animal keepers hold a family of armadillos as part of the inventory at Hoyerswerda Zoo in Saxony on February 10, 2022. (Photo by Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa)





Mariana Jaglo, mother-of-three, holds her Ukrainian Z-15 – Zbroyar long rifle during an interview in the kitchen of her flat in Kiev on January 28, 2022. As fears grow of a potential invasion by Russian troops massed on Ukraine's border, this 52-year-old army reservist, insists in her willing to fight to defend her country. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A protester with a dog speaks to police officers as they tighten a perimeter at the Chateau Laurier hotel as they aim to end an ongoing protest against COVID-19 measures that has grown into a broader anti-government demonstration and occupation in Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, February 18, 2022. (Photo by Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





A protester and her dog meet others at the M25 services before the convoy takes to the motorway on February 6, 2022 in South Mimms, England. The protesters arrived from a number of convoys from around the UK organised in solidarity with Canadian lorry drivers who, starting last month, have created a blockade in Ottawa to decry a requirement that drivers crossing from the US into Canada must be vaccinated against Covid-19. (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)





Pelicans sitting on a fishing boat moored on Celestun beach on Thursday, February 17, 2022, in Celestun, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A monkey is seen at a center established for the rehabilitation of wild animals in the village of Andreikovo of Moscow, Russia on January 28, 2022. The animals, whose rehabilitation and health checks are completed, are released into nature. (Photo by Pelagiya Tikhonova/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A volunteer places a sea lion pup into a boat with others after they fell into the ocean, before they are being released back to a rock and sanctuary for a herd of sea lions, in Cobquecura, Chile on February 3, 2022. (Photo by Jose Luis Saavedra/Reuters)





Polar bears living in an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin, an island in the Russian far east. Photographer Dmitry Kokh discovered the polar bears while on a trip to Wrangel Island in January 2022, a Unesco-recognised nature reserve that serves as a refuge to the animals. (Photo by Dmitry Kokh/The Guardian)





A man carries a dog at a site of a mudslide at Morro da Oficina after pouring rains in Petropolis, Brazil on February 16, 2022. (Photo by Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)





A dog owner and her Bedlington Whippet, Merlyn, enjoy a walk by the sea at Gyllyngvase Beach on February 18, 2022 in Falmouth, Cornwall. The Met Office has issued two rare, red weather warnings for the South and South West of England today as Storm Eunice makes landfall. Much of the rest of the UK is under amber and yellow warnings with winds up to 100 mph, rain and snow expected. This is the worst storm to hit the UK for three decades (Photo by Hugh Hastings/Getty Images)





A file photo taken on November 2, 2019 shows a dehydrated and injured koala receiving treatment at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie. Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as “endangered” on February 11, 2022, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease. (Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP Photo)





Australian kelpie dog Rasy rests after patrolling for seagulls at Sydney’s Opera Bar in Australia on February 15, 2022. (Photo by James Redmayne/Reuters)





Women hold their dogs during a symbolic wedding as part of the MatriCan (a play on the Spanish words for “wedding” and “dog”) local competition on Valentine's day, in Lima, Peru February 14, 2022. (Photo by Angela Ponce/Reuters)