Raging bull, fashionable camel, majestic peacock and more: Top animal pictures of 2023

Revellers react to a bull with flaming horns during a festival known as "bou embolat", which was banned in Valencia in 2016, but has been reinstated by the new regional government, in Carpesa, northern Valencia, Spain, September 17, 2023.

Monarch butterflies rest on a tree at the Sierra Chincua butterfly sanctuary in Angangeo, Michoacan state, Mexico, December 6.

Fireflies light up inside a forest at Pitrufquen area near Temuco, Chile, January 19, 2023.

A bee feeds on a sunflower field in Thun-Saint-Martin, France, August 11, 2023.

Wild horses are pictured on the mountain Stolovi in Serbia, August 31, 2023.

Cormorant fishing master, known as usho, Youichiro Adachi (left), 48, holds the leashes tied to the necks and bodies of cormorants as he prepares for cormorant fishing or ukai, on the Nagara River in Oze, Seki, Japan, September 8. This 1,300-year-old fishing technique consists of swinging a basket of flames over the river to wake the ayu river fish, who dart away from their resting spots and give the birds a chance to catch them and then release them into a bucket with the usho's help.

A camel wearing a hat amid a heatwave, looks on, in front of the Great Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, July 19, 2023.

A frog blows up its cheeks as it sits on a water lily in an artificial pond in Bad Honnef near Bonn, Germany, June 8, 2023.

Schoolchildren observe a Caretta Caretta sea turtle that was released on Melenara Beach, after recovering from its injuries at the Taliarte Wildlife Recovery Center, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, March 30, 2023.

A goat of the "Buena Cabra" (Good Goat) project, an initiative that relies on goats to control dry pastures and other vegetation that fuel forest fires in the summer, on his way to nibble on foliage in Santa Juana, Chile, May 11, 2023.

A pony stands in the doorway of a cottage converted into a stable, in the County Galway village of Rosmuc, Ireland, May 16, 2023.

One of two peacocks that remain from a population of eighteen in Holland Park displays its plumage as part of an annual courtship ritual, despite there being no females left, in London, Britain, April 25, 2023.

Highland cattle wade in Loch Etive, Connel, Scotland, Britain, June 15, 2023.

Ducks are seen in a park during a foggy day in Moscow, Russia, October 23, 2023.

A seagull and crow chase a bald eagle from their nesting areas in the West End next to Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 11, 2023.

A spider sits in its net on a bridge crossing river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, November 8, 2023.