It doesn’t make for the most flattering photoshoot, but there is a reason these zebras at Lewa wildlife conservancy in Kenya in the second decade of August 2025 are stood head to tail: they use their tails to swat flies from each others’ faces. (Photo by Andrew Campbell/Solent News & Photo Agency)

Germany's Darja Varfolomeev competes with a ribbon during the individual apparatus final at the 41st FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships at Carioca Arena, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, August 24, 2025. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)

Portuguese firefighters and Spanish military personnel work together to battle a forest fire in the parish of Bouses, Oimbra, Ourense, Galicia, Spain on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pascual/Anadolu Agency)

Colombian rider Diana Carolina Penuela Martinez competes in the women's Elite Individual Time Trial cycling event during the UCI 2025 Road World Championships, in Kigali, on September 21, 2025. (Photo by Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP Photo)

A child dressed as a New York Fire Department member watches the Veterans Day parade behind a New York Police Department officer on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City on November 11, 2025. (Photo by Kylie Cooper/Reuters)

This picture taken on July 9, 2013 shows heavy flood waters sweeping through Beichuan in southwest China´s Sichuan province. Rainstorms sweeping across parts of China have affected millions, causing landslides and disabling transportation in provinces such as Sichuan and Yunnan, state media reported. (Photo by AFP Photo)

A couple dances a tango in front of Saint Peter's basilica at the Vatican, December 17, 2014. At the rear edge of the square more than 2,000 people, who came to Rome from all over Italy for the 78th birthday of Pope Francis, danced in “A tango for Pope Francis” event as music blared. (Photo by Tony Gentile/Reuters)

A visitor celebrates after attending a bare hand fishing event in a frozen river during the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival at Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon province, South Korea, 09 January 2016. The festival runs under the theme “Unfrozen Hearts, Unforgettable Memories” from 09 January to 31 January 2016. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA)