Pictures of the year: Animals

A zebra rubs its head against another at London Zoo, Britain, August 22, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Pusha the cat, which adopted four orphaned baby squirrels and feeds and lives with them, lies in a park in Bakmore

A snake charmer's monkey performs in Colombo, Sri Lanka October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

A heron is seen near the Sevres river in Vertou near Nantes, France, September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

A tiger lays in a pool of water inside a cage at a zoo, during hot and humid weather in Lahore, Pakistan June more

A giraffe walks near an elevated railway line that allows movement of animals below the Standard Gauge Railwaymore

A seal sits on a rock in front of the "Ile aux moutons" island in front of Loctudy, Brittany, France, Septembemore

A frog is pictured on a lotus leaf in a pond after rain in Lalitpur, Nepal September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Navesh more

A white-lipped pit viper snake is seen at a fire station in Bangkok, Thailand, August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Soe Zeymore

Walrus Polosa and her unnamed calf, born on May 5 in the Hagenbeck Zoo, dive in their compound as they are premore

Don Smith reacts as Cap'n Crunch the Great Dane yawns during the Meet the Breeds event ahead of the 143rd Westmore

Victor, a nine-year-old white-tailed eagle equipped with a 360 camera, flies over glaciers and mountains in Chmore

A panda is pictured at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park, a zoo and botanical garden in Brugelette, Belgium May 29more

A zoo keeper carries a pelican to move it to its winter enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labemore

Berani, a three-year-old orangutan from Sumatra, is pictured at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park, zoo and botanicmore

A zompopa ant, reared for human consumption, is pictured in the insect farm of biologist Federico Paniagua, whmore

Prince Dudeman stands on Ryan Thor's head at the 14th annual Helen Woodward Animal Center "Surf-A-Thon" where more

A woman takes a picture of a squirrel eating a nut in Omsk, Russia October 8, 2019. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

A cat disrupts play in the second half between Tigres UANL and Real Salt Lake during their Leagues Cup game inmore

Dogs play on the beach at Shingle Street, Suffolk, Britain, June 15, 2019. REUTERS/Matthew Tostevin

A newly born Barbary lion cub jumps inside its enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech more

A sheep shearer participates in the blade category of the World Sheep Shearing and Woolhandling Championships more

Cranes court at a mating ground in a marsh near the village of Kulyashy, Belarus March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Vasilmore

Geneva and Belka, female border collies, react during training on the frozen Yenisei River outside Krasnoyarskmore

A seals swims in the water at the Berlin Zoo, Germany June 25, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

Three-month-old twin panda cub Bao Di is seen at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium November 14, 2019. REUmore

A worker feeds a horse at a private stable at the Equestrian Club in Khartoum, Sudan, June 27, 2019. The club more

A newborn albino red-necked wallaby joey is carried by its mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Decin, Czecmore

A newborn orangutan is pictured at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park, a zoo and botanical garden in Brugelette, Bemore

One of three newborn white Bengal tiger cubs is pictured with its mother in La Pastora Zoo in the municipalitymore

Stray dogs walk along a railway located in the Siberian Taiga forest near Krasnoyarsk, Russia April 3, 2019. Rmore

Jim, a two-month-old baby gibbon, embraces a teddy bear in a winter enclosure at a zoo in Almaty, Kazakhstan Omore

Mamy, a caretaker, plays with a pair of pet lions in an enclosure built in a house on the outskirts of Peshawamore

A pelican catches a fish during feeding time in St. James's Park in London, Britain August 21, 2019. REUTERS/Hmore

A newly hatched baby sea turtle makes its way into the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, as part of the Ismore