Adem Yilmaz in his fishing boat with his stork companion, Yaren.

Dachshunds have long been a national symbol in Germany.

A cat inside an apartment building in Sydney, Australia.

Stuart McKenzie catching a carpet python at a home on the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

A yellow-winged bat in Kenya. In nearly half of all bat species, females are larger than males.

The Bengal Safari park in 2020. Names given to a pair of lions have been drawn into a religious and legal debate.

A shepherd with donkeys in southern Ethiopia last year.

Cape Town in 2021. The livestock carrier that was the source of this week’s foul odor in the city was expected to leave by Wednesday.

A female polar bear and her cub on Hudson Bay, near Churchill, Manitoba, in 2022.

The pigeon was released on Tuesday from the veterinary hospital that had held it since it was found wandering in a port with Chinese writing on its wings.

Scotland will strictly regulate bully XL dogs, after England and Wales passed similar measures.

Humane Society International workers rescued a dog at a farm in Wonju, South Korea, in 2017. Under the new law, anyone who butchers dogs for human consumption could face three years in prison or a fine of about $23,000.

A polar bear in Kaktovik, Alaska in 2016.

A pigeon at a closed shopping area near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo.

Sandra Wray, the owner of a seafood restaurant in Tasmania, Australia, said Neil the Seal often liked to rest in the middle of the road.

In July, officials in Finnmark, Norway, collected birds that had died of avian flu.

A large panda seen in its enclosure at the Edinburgh Zoo in Britain in 2020. The country will return its pandas to China after about 12 years of having them as zoo residents.

Lappet-faced vultures, Shredder and Kenya, residents of the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.

A saltwater crocodile caught in the Northern Territory, at Sydney Wildlife World in Sydney, Australia.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the heart of Washington has panda posters, panda mugs, panda pajamas, panda puzzles and even panda ice cream.

An orca seen near the boats of Moroccan fishermen in the Strait of Gibraltar in 2015.

A sheep named Fiona was rescued on Saturday after spending at least two years at the bottom of a Scottish cliff.

Avian flu has killed countless farmed and wild birds. Scientists worry that it could acquire mutations that help it spread more easily among humans, potentially setting off a pandemic.

Beau Moriarty with his 3-year-old son, Max, hunting in Waiau on the South Island of New Zealand.