A Thai performer places his arm inside the gaping mouth of a crocodile during a media preview performance as part of preparation to reopen Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, 19 March 2024. Thailand's famous tourist attraction Samutprakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo is scheduled to reopen to welcome tourists on 01 April 2024 after a temporary closure in 2020 due to the loss of visitors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in the zoo suffering financial loss and going into liquidation. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





A view of a lion at Lujan Zoo, which hosts animals rescued from circuses, animal trafficking and private collections in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 16, 2024. The place had more than 400 animals between native and exotic species, in the same zoo where several animals were raised that were exhibited to the people and the main attraction was that people could enter and pet the big cats inside the cages, which was unique in the country. Losing its main source of money due to severe effects of pandemic, the zoo is abandoned to their fate which led to its closure. The owner of the zoo and an Ad-honorem employee are in charge of maintaining the animals however because of the expenses, the owner get rid of his collection of vehicles, including a classic car that belonged to the Argentine tango icon Carlos Gardel. (Photo by Luciano Gonzalez/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Zookeepers measure the temperature of an elephant during a daily medical check at the zoo in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





A cat wearing a pink dress sits in a pet carrier at the Pet Expo 2024, a pet show in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





Ernie the owl, one of Warwick Castle’s longest standing feathery staff members, is up for retirement after the Easter holidays, in the last decade of March 2024. Ernie has flown, on average, twice a day, every day for the past three decades. His most recent career highlight was with The Falconer’s Quest, the UK’s largest bird of prey show. (Photo by Nicola Gotts Photography)





A dog looks at a police robot, the first one in Spain, during a test carried out by the city's local police in a street of Malaga, on March 19, 2024. (Photo by Jorge Guerrero/AFP Photo)





Xander Galloway-Gee leads a donkey during a photocall following the Palm Sunday Eucharist Service at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire on Sunday, March 24, 2024. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





Revellers participate in a colourful “flour war”, celebrating the “Ash Monday” or “Clean Monday”, a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the 40-day Lent period until the Orthodox Easter, in the town of Galaxidi, Greece, on March 18, 2024. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters)





Jonathan Campbell, Shark Diving Guide, places his hand on a Lemon Shark's nose, off Jupiter, Florida, on February 24, 2024. Florida is the place in the world with the most shark attacks in 2023. The news might make you rethink those well-deserved vacations on the state's beaches; but experts have a message for you: these animals are not the sea monsters you imagine. “It's the place where I'm the calmest”, says Campbell. “In the movies, sharks are scary monsters, but in the water they're like shy puppies”. (Photo by Jesus Olarte/AFP Photo)





A pet cat follows its owner to enjoy the blooming plum blossoms on Meihua Mountain in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, March 2, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)





A man carries a snake as he waits for people to take pictures with it on the day of Friday prayers during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, near one of the gates of Jerusalem's Old City, on March 22, 2024. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





Andean bear Chui, plays with a coconut painted like an Easter egg, after arriving with female Bahia at Knowsley Safari, in Prescot, Knowsley, UK on Friday, March 22, 2024, marking the start of the Safari's conservation campaign to protect the plight of the Andean bear, also known as the Spectacled bear, due to their facial markings. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)





Saud Khalil Zafar Malik, 7, of the Joan Maragall school, acts as a veterinarian as he listens to the heart of a Greyhound during a visit to SOS Galgos (Greyhounds) shelter, which conducts workshops based on empathy and compassion for students on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain, on February 26, 2024. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)





Storks came their nests on an electric pole, try to clean their bodies from snow as their nest is filled with snow during spring season in Gurpinar district of Van, Turkiye on March 20, 2024. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Hungry swans in Windsor, Berkshire, UK search for food by the River Thames on March 19, 2024. Locals are delighted that a good number of the cygnets born last summer have survived and added to the Windsor Flock, which sadly lost over 50 swans last year due to bird flu. (Photo by Maureen McLean/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A person holds up a dog during a mass in honour of Saint Lazarus at the Magdalena church in the indigenous community of Monimbo in Masaya, Nicaragua on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Maynor Valenzuela/Reuters)





Ko Muang Phet, a white buffalo who was sold for 18 million baht, is seen with his new owner Jintanat Limtongkul, after a meeting between prime minister Srettha Thavisin and members of the Thai Buffalo Breeding Development Association at Government House in Bangkok on March 20, 2024. Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin took the bull by the horns on March 20, 2024 as he welcomed an unusual visitor to his offices – an enormous white buffalo. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Adrienne Yip takes a picture of her Burmese mountain dog named “Walter”, beneath the cherry blossoms in peak bloom at the Tidal Basin with the Washington Monument seen behind, in Washington, DC, USA, 18 March 2024. Peak bloom, as defined when seventy percent of the cherry blossoms are open, is occuring this week. This year's peak bloom, beginning the 17th of March, is tied for the second earliest in history and is seen as a reflection of warming temperatures. (Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A dog waits with its owner at the Mouille Point lighthouse ahead of the Paws on the Promenade dog walk fundraiser for Mdzananda Animal Clinic based in Khayelitsha, in Cape Town, South Africa, on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





People take shelter inside a metro station during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2024. (Photo by Alina Smutko/Reuters)