Thousands of pigeons with tiny LED lights strapped to their legs swoop through the skies of New York as performance art
Britain's Catherine and William feed elephants and rhinos during a visit to a wildlife rehabilitation and conservation center in India.
Mushers from around the world embark on the first leg of Alaska's gruelling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Behind-the-scenes at the Westminster Dog Show.
Pet owners bring their animals to be blessed on the day of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals.
Tucked away in a wooded corner of southern New Hampshire, Jenness Farm draws yoga enthusiasts seeking to practice poses while goats climb around and sometimes on them.
Pet proprietors have their creatures favored each year upon the arrival of Saint Francis of Assisi.
From a miniature pony to goats, and dogs to elephants, Derrick Campana fashions prosthetics to help animals walk again.
It's man versus hog at the annual 'greased pig contest" in Quebec, Canada.
Worshipers throw offerings such as livestock and other crops into the volcanic crater of Mount Bromo to give thanks to the Hindu gods.
Local herders and their families mark Reindeer Day, a professional holiday of reindeer breeding workers, which is celebrated annually in far northern Russia.
Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity, died at the age of 60 at the Columbus Zoo where she was born in December 1956.
In honor of Saint Anthony, patron of animals, revelers ride their horses through the village of San Bartolome de Pinares in Spain to purify the animals with the smoke and flames of the bonfires.
Handlers bathe horses in the Caribbean Sea near Bridgetown, Barbados.
Hong Kong opens its first rabbit cafe despite warning from vets that it could put stress on the animals.
The last survivors of a Gaza zoo, where dozens of animals died of starvation and children petted stuffed carcasses, left for a sanctuary outside the Palestinian territory.
Outrage follows the killing of Zimbabwe's famous lion by a Minnesota dentist.
The prime minister may be changing at number 10 Downing Street but Larry, the office cat, will stay on.
The first Croatian beach bar specifically designed for dogs opens in Crikvenica, Croatia.
From tortoises to goats to rats, a look at the pets of Manhattan.
People gather at the Kyrgyz national horse games and festival near the Tulpar-Kul lake in the Chon Alai mountain range, some 11,483 feet above sea level, in the Osh region of
From cockatoos in water bottles to fish under a dress, some of the exotic animals that are illegally trafficked around the world.
Honor, a 10-month-old miniature therapy horse, visits dozens of children and teens being treated at a Manhattan hospital.
SeaWorld says it will stop breeding killer whales and that those currently at its parks will be the last.
