A Brazilian dancer performs during the flowers parade as part of the 137th edition of Nice's Carnival with the theme “King of Animals” in Nice, France, February 13, 2022. (Photo by Eric Gaillard/Reuters)

Revellers take part in the annual block party known as “Casa Comigo” (Marry Me), during carnival festivities in Sao Paulo, Brazil on February 15, 2020. (Photo by Rahel Patrasso/Reuters)

Bristol celebrates “wonderful diversity” at St Paul's carnival on Saturday, July 6, 2019. Thousands filled the streets for the city’s 51st procession highlighting the contribution of the Windrush generation. (Photo by Alex Turner/The Guardian)

Dancers take part in “La Vijanera”, a winter masquerade at the beginning of carnival season in Europe, in Silio, northern Spain, January 8, 2017. (Photo by Vincent West/Reuters)

An armed forces members patrol during an operation against drug dealers in Vila Kennedy slum in Rio de Janeiro, March 7, 2018. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

A girl in a swimsuit participates in the BoogelWoogel alpine carnival at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, Russia on March 31, 2018. (Photo by Artur Lebedev/TASS)

A biker shows his 12-year-old cat “Chiquinho” – which always rides with him on his motorbike – in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 19, 2016. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)

Members of a comparsa, a Uruguayan carnival group, dance during the Llamadas parade, a street fiesta with traditional Afro-Uruguayan roots in Montevideo February 9, 2017. (Photo by Andres Stapff/Reuters)