Pictures of the year: Animals

Bengal tiger Garfield reacts at the zoo in Havana, Cuba, April 14. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

A polar bear is pictured after sparring with another bear near the Hudson Bay community of Churchill, Manitobamore

A gibbon walks amid models of vehicles at a zoo in the park of miniatures in Bakhchisaray, Crimea May 24. REUTmore

People and security members run away as Kurdish animal rights activists release a bear into the wild after resmore

A cow is transported by a helicopter after its summer sojourn in the high Swiss Alpine meadows near the Klausemore

Runners and riders compete in race 6 during the annual one-day Laytown races held on the beach under official more

Disabled dogs in mobility aids run during a daily walk at The Man That Rescues Dogs Foundation in Chonburi, Thmore

A horse stands in a snow-covered field in Cowshill, County Durham, Britain, January 5. REUTERS/Lee Smith

Camels rest and graze next to a field near the southern Israeli village of Nitzana, Israel October 8. REUTERS/more

Camels stand near laundry on a clothesline at the Royal Circus home base in Senas as circus shows remained shumore

A cat walks among incense sticks drying at a home-industry factory, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Tamore

A dog with blue fur is pictured inside a cage at a veterinary hospital where it was taken for examination, in more

A horse is photographed in Tacande while the Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to erupt, on the Canary Island of more

A silhouette of a deer is seen during the rutting season in Richmond Park, London, Britain, November 16. REUTEmore

A farmer gives a pig a microphone "to sing" on the stage of  The Pork Chop Revue comedy show at the 117th Kentmore

A pigeon walks past social distancing markers in an empty light rail car at Circular Quay during a lockdown tomore

A horseman rides a purebred Spanish horse during the SICAB International PRE Horse Fair, which is dedicated tomore

Visitors are seen giving carrots to a giraffe at their enclosure at the Xenpal Zoo in Garcia, on the outskirtsmore

Zookeeper Charli Ellis measures the shell of Polly, a Galapagos tortoise, during the annual stocktake at ZSL Lmore

Migrating Great White pelicans gather at a water reservoir in Mishmar Hasharon, central Israel November 8, 202more

Sheep prepared for slaughtering are seen during celebrations of the Muslim festival of sacrifice Eid al-Adha imore

Pigeon fancier Yonisbel Santana poses for a photo at his rooftop in Havana, Cuba, May 18. REUTERS/Alexandre Memore

Volodymyr, a service member of the Ukrainian armed forces, plays with puppies at fighting positions on the linmore

A woman wearing a protective face mask carries her pet cat in a backpack as they wait to cross a street, amid more

Cats are pictured at Ernesto's sanctuary for cats in Idlib, Syria March 28. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

An Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) exercises at Basondo Animal Refuge, in Kortezubi, Spain, February 8. REmore

Fireflies light up inside a forest at Pitrufquen area, Temuco, Chile, January 21. REUTERS/Cristobal Saavedra Emore

A nineteen-day-old male baby giraffe stands next to an adult giraffe in an enclosure at the Zoo de la Fleche zmore

People feed seagulls from a boat at Yamuna river, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India November 18. REUTERSmore

Zoo keeper Thomas Maunders measures a Postman Butterfly at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo 2021 weigh-in and measurement, inmore

An eleven-day-old baby male Bornean orangutan is held by his mother Suli at Bioparc Fuengirola in Fuengirola, more

An injured turtle recovers in a tank after volunteers cleaned its wounds, at the Marine Fauna Rehabilitation Cmore

A squirrel crosses the Cherry Alley at Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark April 20.  Mads Claus Rasmusmore

A fox walks outside 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, January 6. REUTERS/John Sibley

People watch a flock of sheep during the annual parade on the streets of Madrid, as shepherds demand to exercimore

A worker covers the eye of an African elephant during a medical assistance, as according to local news, the Simore

A handler attempts to help pose a white-crested black Polish bantam chicken for a portrait at the annual Balmomore