Pictures of the year: The best animal pictures of 2022

An Indian rhino is pictured during the second heatwave of the year at the Zoo Aquarium in Madrid, Spain.

Two Red-eyed Tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) mate at “Exotic Fauna" breeding zoo, where exotic animals are reproduced to be marketed as pets in U.S., Canada and Asia, in Ticuantepe, on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua.

A shark cruises over the ocean bottom during a scuba trip with dive company Emerald Charters off Jupiter Inlet, Florida.

A 19-year-old partially blind tiger named Rambo looks on from inside a cage on a truck, after being rescued by a team of veterinarians and Wildlife Friends Foundation staff from a bankrupted Phuket Zoo, which was forced to shut down after the COVID-19 crisis and the lack of tourism in Phuket, Thailand.

A biologist poses with newly-hatched Cuban crocodiles (Crocodylus rhombifer) as they are relocated at a hatchery at Zapata Swamp, Cienaga de Zapata, Cuba, August 25. Cuban crocodiles, an endemic species found only here and in a swamp on Cuba's Isle of Youth, are critically endangered and have the smallest natural habitat left of any living crocodile species, scientists say.

A peregrine falcon calls out as it perches on a branch above the Palisades Cliffs in Alpine, New Jersey.

An axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), or Mexican salamander, floats in a tank, as part of a conservation project to preserve the species in Xochimilco in Mexico City, Mexico.

Whitetail deer are pictured at sunset in Buffalo, New York.

Dogs pose for a photo at Happy Bark Day, a dog cafe in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Janus, a two-headed Greek tortoise named after the Roman god with two heads, is washed with a toothbrush one day ahead of his 25th birthday at the Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland.

A white-handed gibbon infant born at the Skopje Zoo is seen with his mother in Skopje, North Macedonia.

New born crabs run on a beach, during low tide, at the edge of the Casamance River, on Kafar island, Senegal.

Ring-tailed lemurs eat a pumpkin ahead of Halloween, at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium.

A flock of starlings fills the sky in the village of Val-de-Vesle near Reims, France.