Birds trainer Valerie Recher trains a vulture in Frouzins near Toulouse, France, October 26, 2018. (Photo by Regis Duvignau/Reuters)





British holidaymaker Sean Chinn captures a crocodile on camera during a dive at the Jardines de la Reina marine park in Caribbean Sea, Cuba. (Photo by Sean Chinn/Caters News Agency)





A zoo keeper catches a pelican to move it to its winter enclosure at Zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, 31 October 2018. Two tens of zoo keepers catched 25 pelicans around the Zoo area. (Photo by Martin Divisek/EPA/EFE)





Researchers examine a bat for body size and fat. Scientists are working across the western US and Canada, capturing and studying thousands of bats to better understand their hibernation habits and which are best suited to survive a deadly plague now decimating bat populations. (Photo by Wildlife Conservation Society)





People follow king penguins exploring their outdoor pen at Zurich's Zoo, Switzerland, December 4, 2013. (Photo by Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)





Gudeta touches a Mochena goat at her farm. Gudeta escaped from her home town of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia on July 20, 2018. (Photo by Alessandro Bianchiethiopia/Reuters)





Fisherman Cyril Delley gives fishes to the gulls on Lac de Neuchatel near Portalban, Switzerland, November 1, 2018. (Photo by Denis Balibouse/Reuters)





In this file photo taken on Friday March 16, 2018 a pangolin from the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital is taken to a nearby field to forage for food near Johannesburg. Nearly 100 countries took part in a globe-spanning crackdown on the illegal wildlife trade, seizing tons of meat, ivory, pangolin scales and timber in a monthlong bust that exposed the international reach of traffickers, Interpol said Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (Photo by Denis Farrell/AP Photo)





This picture taken on October 19, 2018 shows ranger looking at a green turtle in a nesting ground on Thameehla Island. Peril plagues the young life of a baby turtle in Myanmar; if the crabs don' t get them before they scramble from the beach to the sea, poachers or fishing trawlers may do – while habitat destruction also decimates their numbers. Myanmar' s waters boast five of the world' s seven sea turtle species, including the critically endangered hawksbill, the endangered green turtle as well as the olive ridley, leatherback and loggerhead turtles, all listed as vulnerable. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)





Caretaker Li Feng cradles her precious charge by the window of Bifengxia's panda nursery, the most popular stop for visitors touring the facilities. More than 400,000 people visit each year to glimpse and snap photos of China's most beloved baby animals. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Reuters/National Geographic Magazine/Courtesy of World Press Photo Foundation)





Wardens assist the last surviving male northern white rhino named 'Sudan' as it grazes at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia national park, Kenya June 14, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





In this May 13, 2009 file photo, Firefighter Eforrest Allmond houses down Asian Elephants from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in Philadelphia. (Photo by Matt Rourke/AP Photo)





In this May 7, 2009, file photo, a Siberian tiger crouches on top of a tourist bus at a branch of Harbin Siberian Tigers Breeding Center in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province. China says it will allow trading in products made from endangered tigers and rhinos under “special circumstances”, reversing a previous ban and bringing condemnation from conservation groups. A notice from the Cabinet issued Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, avoided mentioning any change in the law, saying instead that it would “control” the trade and that rhino horns and tiger bones could only be obtained from farmed animals for use in “medical research or in healing”. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





In this September 26, 1997, file photo, a handler holds Tuatahi, a 3-week-old Kiwi bird, the first kiwi born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo for more than 26 years. (Photo by Rick Rycroft/AP Photo)





In this August 3, 2016 photo, a large bison blocks traffic in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park as tourists take photos of the animal. Record visitor numbers at the nation's first national park have transformed its annual summer rush into a sometimes dangerous frenzy, with selfie-taking tourists routinely breaking park rules and getting too close to Yellowstone's storied elk herds, grizzly bears, wolves and bison. (Photo by Matthew Brown/AP Photo)





Zoom Room is a gym like any other but with one important distinction: dogs are the clientele. The American franchise train dogs to improve fitness and socialisation, helping owners deepen the bond of communication with their dog. Zoom Room offers small group training classes specially designed to encourage dogs to build confidence and success as they master new behaviours. (Photo by Caters News Agency)





Kate Masteic, 23, with Digby before they left for the awards ceremony. Two-year-old Digby, an American miniature horse, was in training to help his blind owner-to-be, who is scared of dogs, cross roads, find post boxes and activate traffic lights. Once fully trained, Digby was supposed to live with a dog-phobic journalist at his home in Blackburn to help him with the same day-to-day tasks as a guide dog would. But now, Digby has grown too large to work as a guide horse as hes 33 inches in height, too high for a conventional guide horse. Devastated owner-to-be Mohammed Salim Patel said the while Digby wouldnt be working as a guide horse, he will still have an instrumental role in promoting guide horses in the UK. (Photo by Caters News Agency)





A pelican got its beak around Juan van den Heever, 18, a student and photographer from Pretoria, South Africa, during a family boat trip off Namibia. (Photo by Juan Van Den Heever/Caters News Agency)





Hungarian National Circus elephants are sprayed with water during a promotional event in Balatonlelle, Hungary on July 14, 2018. (Photo by Balazs Mohai/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Undated UK Ministry of Defence handout photo of Air Dog Baco exiting an RAF Northolt Police Car via the window, taken by Cpl Lee Matthews, which has been shortlisted for the general public to pick their favourite RAF Image of the Year. (Photo by Cpl Lee Matthews/MoD Crown Copyright/PA Wire)