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August in animals
New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried watches a squirrel on the field during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
A squirrel runs on the field during the fourth inning of a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
The twin Panda cubs Leni and Lotti play at the Panda Garden during their first birthday party at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
One of the giant panda cub twins Leni or Lotti plays at the Panda Garden during their first birthday party at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
A bee feeds on flower nectar in a park during a sunny day in Tallinn, Estonia, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Birds sit on a park bench as a dense fog envelopes the Sydney skyline causing major commuter delays, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Local fisherman Bulent Buyuk Turhan feeds seagulls with small fishes he has just caught at Galata bridge, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A starling sits near a man eating at a street cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A Cambodian Buddhist monk heads to his morning class in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian Buddhist monk feeds pigeon in a public park on his way to school in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A woman attends a goat yoga class at Gorky park in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Young ostriches walk at an ostrich farm at the Baltic Sea in Hohenfelde near Kiel, northern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Storks stand on a field on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, early Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Storks stand on a field on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, early Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A heron takes off from a dung hill in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Icelandic horses stand on a meadow at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Egyptian geese sit on a small pier near the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
A man feeds stray cats from the protected cat colony "Proyecto Aldameros," at a park in the historic area of Havana, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Stray cats gather on a table at the protected cat colony "Proyecto Aldameros," in a park in the historic area of Havana, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
FILE - A woman walks her dog along the beach as the sun rises in Port Aransas, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Firefighters evacuate a cat during search and rescue works in the damaged residential building following Russia's missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Petunia celebrates winning first place in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Little Prince Wonder, an 8-year-old Chinese Crested, gets love during the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office walks on the red carpet ahead of the arrival of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street in London, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
In this image made from video, handler Sue Stejskal lets Maple, an English springer spaniel, sniff a bee-themed dog toy at Michigan State University's Pollinator Performance Center Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)
Stray cats eat scraps of food left by animal lovers outside the Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/ Vadim Ghirda)
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling greets a dog with Canine Companions after the NFL football team's training camp Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A police dog looks at other dogs during a parade of dogs in costume, celebrating Bolivia's bicentennial, in La Paz, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Assam Police dog squads take part in a parade during the country's Independence Day celebrations in Guwahati, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 11th congressional district Jamie Ager's dog, Praire, walks through a field, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Fairview, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
An osprey perches on a flagpole near its nest at a high school athletic field Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Apple Valley, Minn. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)
A man walks a dog as District of Columbia National Guardsmen patrol the neighborhood near Nationals Park in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Children play with pigeons outside Yeni mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
