Reuters: Pictures of the Year 2017 (Animals)

2. Pictures of the year: Animals

3. Anfisa, a 12-year-old female
chimpanzee, picks its nose at the
Royev Ruchey Zoo in a suburb of
the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk,
Russia October 18, 2017.
REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

4. A man rides a horse through
flames during the annual
"Luminarias" celebration on
the eve of Saint Anthony's day,
Spain's patron saint of animals,
in the village of San Bartolome
de Pinares, northwest of
Madrid, Spain, January 16,
2017. REUTERS/Paul Hanna

5. A squirrel monkey rests on a tree branch during a hot day at a zoo in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

6. A rare white moose is seen in Gunnarskog, Varmland, Sweden July 31, 2017. TT News Agency/Tommy Pedersen via REUTERS

7. A dog feeds four newborn tiger
cubs and a puppy at Xixiakou
Wild Animal Protection Zone in
Rongcheng, Shandong
province, China June 14, 2017.
REUTERS/Stringer

8. A man carries his pet cat as he walks under the cherry blossoms at Tongji University in Shanghai, China April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song

9. Men feed seagulls along the Yamuna river on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Saumya Khandelwal

10. Five-month-old baby
elephant Fah Jam swims
during a hydrotherapy
treatment as part of a
lengthy rehabilitation
process to heal her
injured front left foot at
a rehabilitation center in
Pattaya, Thailand
January 5, 2017. The
baby elephant was
injured at three months
old when she got stuck
in an animal snare put
up by villagers to
prevent elephant
intrusions in
Chanthaburi province.
REUTERS/Athit
Perawongmetha

11. A golden eagle grabs a flying drone during a military training exercise at Mont-de-Marsan
French Air Force base, southwestern France, February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

12. Pigs are herded off a platform into water by
breeders during daily exercise at a pig farm in
Shenyang, Liaoning province, China August
14, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

13. Young alpacas, male
Romeo (L) and female
Juliette, walk inside their
open air enclosure as
employees congratulate
coupled animals on
Valentine's Day at the
Roev Ruchey Zoo in
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
February 14, 2017.
REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

14. Goats climb on students during a yoga class with eight students and five goats at Jenness
Farm in Nottingham, New Hampshire, U.S., May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

15. Two stag deer are seen through the
mist at dawn during the annual
rutting season in Richmond Park in
London, Britain September 22, 2017.
REUTERS/Toby Melville

16. A rare 5-year-old female albino
orangutan is seen after it was rescued
from captivity by authorities in Kapuas
Hulu district, Central Kalimantan
province, Indonesia April 29, 2017.
BOSF/Indrayana via REUTERS

17. Atila, a trained therapeutic greyhound used
to treat patients with mental health issues
and learning difficulties, falls asleep as it is
caressed by three patients at Benito Menni
health facility in Elizondo, northern Spain,
February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Susana Vera

18. Scarlet ibis fly near the banks of a mangrove swamp located at the mouth of the Calcoene
River on the coast of Amapa state, northern Brazil, April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

19. Martin Herrera, 58, who has
had a love for roosters since his
childhood, and has spent the
last 20 years domesticating and
training them, poses with his
favorite rooster "Paquito"
around other roosters in his
house in San Jose, Costa Rica
April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Juan
Carlos Ulate

20. Visitors look at a cheetah, in a private zoo called "12 Months" in Demydiv, Ukraine, May 2, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

21. Researchers hold giant panda cubs during an event to celebrate China's Lunar New Year in a
research base in Ya'an, Sichuan province, China January 11, 2017. China Daily via REUTERS

22. Members of the cavalry rehearse at the
beach of Scheveningen on the eve of a
parade in The Hague, before the king
delivers his speech from the throne to
outline the main features of the
government's policy for the coming
parliamentary session, in Scheveningen,
Netherlands September 18, 2017.
REUTERS/Toussaint Kluiters

23. Sensational Butterflies exhibition
at the Natural History Museum in
London, Britain March 30, 2017.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

24. A one-week-old baby bonobo
clings to its mother at
Planckendael zoo in Mechelen,
Belgium August 9, 2017.
REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

25. Fireflies seeking mates light up in synchronized
bursts inside a forest at Santa Clara sanctuary near
the town of Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala state, Mexico,
July 24, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

26. A murmuration of starlings is seen across the sky near the town of Gretna Green, Scotland, Britain November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble

27. Mykh, a one-and-a-half-year-
old great gray owl, flies
through a window during a
training session which is a
part of Royev Ruchey Zoo's
programme of taming wild
animals for research,
education and interaction
with visitors, in a suburb of
the Siberian city of
Krasnoyarsk, Russia October
17, 2017. REUTERS/Ilya
Naymushin

28. Julian Assange's cat sits at the
window of Ecuador's embassy
where WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange is taking refuge, in
London, Britain, May 19, 2017.
REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

29. Inmate Kristina Hazelett, 35, plays with a dog in a cell
at the MCSO Animal Safe Haven (MASH) Unit in a
former jail that has become a shelter for abused and
neglected animals seized in Maricopa County Sheriff's
Office investigations, in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., April
25, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

30. Autumn leaves are reflected in
the water of Loch Faskally
where a swan and ducks swim,
in Pitlochry, Britain October 25,
2017. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

31. A king cobra snake seen coming
out of container of chips in this
undated handout photo
obtained July 25, 2017. United
States Attorney's Office Central
District of California/Handout via
REUTERS

32. A man driving a vintage car passes by crabs
crossing a highway on their way to spawn in
the sea in Playa Giron, Cuba, April 21, 2017.
REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

33. 29-NOVIEMBRE-2017 END
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