A stray cat is checked on the eve of International Cat Day in Banda Aceh on August 7, 2023. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)

A starling jealously guards a seed station in the back garden of the photographer’s Michigan home in January 2024. (Photo by Lisa Cavanary/Solent News)

A boy looks on as he swims in an area affected by floods due to the overflowing of the Batanghari River at Sungai Bungur village in Muaro Jambi, Jambi province, Indonesia, on February 20, 2024, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. (Photo by Wahdi Septiawan/Antara Foto via Reuters)

A woman releases birds as people celebrate the start of the Lunar New Year in Surabaya on February 1, 2022, which ushers in the Year of the Tiger. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto/AFP Photo)

A man participates in the Pacu Jawi, a traditional bull race, at Nagari Labuah, in Tanah Datar of West Sumatra, Indonesia, on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Yorri Farli/Xinhua News Agency/Alamy Live News)

A woman and child look on at volcanic ash rising into the air during the eruption of Mount Ibu, as seen from Duono Village in West Halmahera, North Maluku province, on January 15, 2025. (Photo by AZZAM via AFP Photo)

A man carries a civet while taking part in an animal welfare campaign ahead of the World Animal Day celebrations on October 4, in Banda Aceh on October 2, 2022. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)

This sumatran orangutan named Kulsum was captured playing with a piece of broken bottle making a pair of makeshift sunglasses to ward off the sun in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2022. Sumatran orangutans are critically endangered of the three orangutan species and are only found in the north of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. An orangutan has a long lifespan and can live up to 30 years in the wild with many living up to 50. (Photo by Syahrul Ramadan/Media Drum Images)