It’s once again time for a look at the animal kingdom and our interactions with the countless species that share our planet. Today’s photos include the testing of deer in Minnesota for COVID-19, a rhino census in India, shepherds finding water in Senegal, abandoned and rescued pets in Ukraine, the Iditarod sled-dog race in Alaska, a llama rescue amid flooding in Australia, a reindeer roundup in Russia, and much more. These images from recent months are collected as part of an ongoing series on animals in the news, seen from the perspectives of their human observers, companions, captors, and caretakers.
Animals in the News
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A Ukrainian service member plays with a dog that was abandoned by its owners, inside a house that the residents left on the front line near Kyiv, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, on March 29, 2022. #
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Reindeer move about in a pen in Russia's Lovozero region on March 14, 2022. During a spring census, the reindeer, which were brought in for vaccinations, health, and horn care, were counted one by one. #
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Tamara Nazarova, who was evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Irpin amid heavy clashes, is seen with several dogs on March 26, 2022, in Kyiv, where she lives in a tent. Nazarova brought 24 dogs, 12 of which belong to her. #
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The senior biologist Allan Jan feeds Methuselah, a four-foot-long, 40-pound Australian lungfish in its tank at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, on January 24, 2022. The fish was brought over in 1938 from Australia. #
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Radek, a co-founder of the ADA Foundation, an animal clinic and shelter, examines Shasha, a male goat that was rescued from a farm in Ukraine with problems with his front legs, in Przemyśl, Poland, on March 28, 2022. Since the beginning of the Russian attacks on Ukraine, thousands of domestic and wild animals have been saved by foundations and volunteers, who travel daily to different parts of the country to evacuate them. #
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Volunteers from the State Emergency Service rescue a llama from a flooded farmhouse in western Sydney, Australia, on March 3, 2022. The area faced its worst flooding after record rainfall caused its largest dam to overflow. #
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A drug-sniffing dog stands with its handler during a ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of the anti-narcotics police force in Bogotá, Colombia, on March 30, 2022. #
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In this picture taken on March 25, 2022, a forest-department worker displays newly hatched olive ridley sea turtles at a hatchery on a beach in Chennai, India, after their eggs were collected by volunteers and forest-department workers along the coastline of Bay of Bengal. #
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Jeff King, a four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, takes his team through a snowstorm during the race's ceremonial start on March 4, 2022, in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. #
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A shepherd collects water for his sheep from a makeshift well, dug into a dried-up riverbed on the outskirts of the village of Madina Torobe, in Senegal's Matam region, on March 12, 2022. Access to drinking water in the northwest areas of Senegal is a constant issue—some herders will walk for hours to get to the nearest animal-water point. #
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A wildlife team covers a young buck's head with a cloth to help calm it before testing the deer for the coronavirus and taking other biological samples in Grand Portage, Minnesota, on March 2, 2022. Scientists are concerned that the virus could evolve within animal populations—potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people and possibly reignite what for now seems like a waning crisis. #
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A goat stands on a cliff in Fajã do Ouvidor on Sao Jorge island, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, on March 28, 2022. For the past week, Sao Jorge island has been the epicenter of thousands of small earthquakes that could precede a volcanic eruption. #
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Pete, an eight-week-old German shepherd, gets a treat from his puppy raiser, Leigh Goetzke (right), and Gin Owens, as they practice the "sit" command while placing a tinsel heart over his head. Pete was in a Guiding Eyes for the Blind foundation class at St. Matthew's United Methodist Church, in Bowie, Maryland, on Valentine's day, February 14, 2022. #
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