Pictures of the year 2021: Animals

An eleven-day-old baby Bornean orangutan is held by his mother Suli at Bioparc Fuengirola in Fuengirola, southern Spain, on August 15.

A dog with blue fur is pictured inside a cage at a veterinary hospital taken for examination in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on February 16. A pack of stray dogs with blue fur was found earlier near an abandoned chemical plant in Dzerzhinsk.

A woman wearing a protective face mask carries her pet cat in a backpack as they wait to cross a street amid the coronavirus outbreak in Barcelona, Spain, on April 9.

A fox walks outside 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, on January 6.

A horse stands in a snow-covered field in Cowshill, County Durham, Britain.

Disabled dogs in mobility aids run during a daily walk at The Man That Rescues Dogs Foundation in Chonburi, Thailand, January 26.

A cat walks among incense sticks drying at a home-industry factory, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, February 10.

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

Visitors are seen giving carrots to a giraffe at their enclosure at the Xenpal Zoo in Garcia, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico October 21.

Bengal tiger Garfield reacts at the zoo in Havana, Cuba, April 14.

A horse is photographed in Tacande while the Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to erupt, on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, November 28.

Sheep prepared for slaughtering are seen during celebrations of the Muslim festival of sacrifice Eid al-Adha in Kazan, Russia July 20.

Volodymyr, a service member of the Ukrainian armed forces, plays with puppies at fighting positions on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 10. The two unnamed puppies living on frontline positions will be taken home and named by soldiers departing on troops rotation.

A cow is transported by a helicopter after its summer sojourn in the high Swiss Alpine meadows near the Klausenpass, Switzerland August 27.

People and security members run away as Kurdish animal rights activists release a bear into the wild after rescuing bears from captivity in people homes, in Dohuk, Iraq February 11.

Migrating Great White pelicans gather at a water reservoir in Mishmar Hasharon, central Israel November 8, 2021.

Runners and riders compete in race 6 during the annual one-day Laytown races held on the beach under official horse racing turf club rules, which has returned after being cancelled for the past two years due to the coronavirus, in Laytown, Ireland, November 1

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