People take photos during the Loy Krathong festival which is held as a symbolic apology to the goddess of the river in Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

A man in Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in the Russian Far East on November 23, 2021. Located in Tuimaada Valley on the Lena River, Yakutsk is the largest city in the permafrost zone. On 23 November 2021, the daytime temperature ranged between –35 and –31 degrees Celsius in Yakutsk. On the night between 22 and 23 November, the temperature went down to –37 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Vadim Skryabin/TASS)

A yawning leopard appears to be laughing instead at Chobe National Park in Botswana in January 2023. (Photo by Nick Dale/Solent News & Photo Agency)

Combat between two male stag beetles, Italy, 2022. During the mating season, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) go into a frenzy, with lively but harmless clashes, in which bigger males often have the advantage over smaller ones due to their impressive mandibles. Longer larval development and genetic traits can increase the size of some individuals, but all saproxylic beetles are threatened by poor forest management, logging and dead wood removal to “clean” the forest. (Photo by Iacopo Nerozzi)

Participants pass an egg using their mouths during a religious ritual as they play the role of traditional fighters in a parade during the Popo (Mask) Carnival of Bonoua, in the east of Abidjan, April 18, 2015. The carnival has its origins in the changes that Aboure youths in Bonoua introduced to the annual festival of yams. (Photo by Luc Gnago/Reuters)

A mahout guards the elephants during the annual Vrischikolsavam festival, which features a colourful procession of decorated elephants along with drum concerts, at a temple in Kochi, India, November 18, 2017. (Photo by Sivaram V/Reuters)

A mother reacts as she pleads with police to allow her daughter to pass a checkpoint for cancer treatment after she arrived from Hubei province at the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge in Jiujiang, China, February 1, 2020. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Mortuary Chamber of the Ponte San Pietro Hospital in the Province of Bergamo on March 18, 2020 – the area in Italy where the highest number of infections was recorded by COVID19 Coronavirus. (Photo by Carlo Cozzoli/IPA/SIPA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)