Yearender 2019: Best animal pictures

A zebra rubs its head against another at London Zoo, Britain

A pelican catches a fish during feeding time in St. James's Park in London, Britain

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

A white-lipped pit viper snake is seen at a fire station in Bangkok, Thailand

A giraffe walks near an elevated railway line that allows movement of animals below the Standard Gauge Railway line linking Nairobi and Naivasha inside the Nairobi national park in Nairobi, Kenya

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

A frog is pictured on a lotus leaf in a pond after rain in Lalitpur, Nepal

Walrus Polosa and her unnamed calf, born on May 5 in the Hagenbeck Zoo, dive in their compound as they are presented to the public in Hamburg, Germany

A newly hatched baby sea turtle makes its way into the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, as part of the Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Center's conservation program at a beach near Mikhmoret, north of Tel Aviv, Israel

Don Smith reacts as Cap'n Crunch the Great Dane yawns during the Meet the Breeds event ahead of the 143rd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York

Victor, a nine-year-old white-tailed eagle equipped with a 360 camera, flies over glaciers and mountains in Chamonix, France, during a preparation flight of the Alpine Eagle Race, an event aiming at raising awareness on global warming

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

A zoo keeper carries a pelican to move it to its winter enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in Dvur Kralove nad Labem, Czech Republic

Berani, a three-year-old orangutan from Sumatra, is pictured at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park, zoo and botanical garden in Brugelette, Belgium

A zompopa ant, reared for human consumption, is pictured in the insect farm of biologist Federico Paniagua, who promotes the ingestion of a wide variety of insects as a low-cost and nutrient-rich food, in Grecia, Costa Rica

Prince Dudeman stands on Ryan Thor's head at the 14th annual Helen Woodward Animal Center "Surf-A-Thon" where more than 70 dogs competed in five different weight classes for "Top Surf Dog 2019" in Del Mar, California

A woman takes a picture of a squirrel eating a nut in Omsk, Russia

Dogs play on the beach at Shingle Street, Suffolk, Britain

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

Cranes court at a mating ground in a marsh near the village of Kulyashy, Belarus

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

A seals swims in the water at the Berlin Zoo, Germany

Three-month-old twin panda cub Bao Di is seen at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium

A worker feeds a horse at a private stable at the Equestrian Club in Khartoum, Sudan, June 27, 2019. The club has had to cut back activities since popular unrest erupted in December and led to the fall of autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in April

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

One of three newborn white Bengal tiger cubs is pictured with its mother in La Pastora Zoo in the municipality of Guadalupe, Mexico

Stray dogs walk along a railway located in the Siberian Taiga forest near Krasnoyarsk, Russia

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

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