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Animals in the News (32 photos)

Time again for a look at the animal kingdom and our interactions with the countless species that share our planet. Today’s photos include a donkey-therapy program in Spain, animals affected by wildfires in the U.S., a rescued anteater in Brazil, COVID-sniffing dog training in Germany, rhinos near Nairobi, beach rescue-dog training in Italy, stranded pilot whales in Tasmania, migrating storks in Turkey, and much more. These images and many others are part of a roundup of animals in the news from recent months, seen from the perspectives of their human observers, companions, captors, and caretakers, as part of an ongoing series on animals in the news.
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Dr. Lucia Ledesma, a clinical neuropsychologist, eyes her pet Harley, a therapy dog who provides emotional support for health-care workers who are treating patients infected with the new coronavirus, while he rests on his bed in Mexico City on September 12, 2020.
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Marco Ugarte / AP

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Cows decorated with bells and flowers rest and drink some water before the annual ceremonial Almabtrieb (“cattle drive”), on September 18, 2020, at Gramai-Alm in Tyrol’s Karwendel Alpine Park near Pertisau, Austria. Farmers herd the cattle down from alpine summer pastures to Achensee valley barns for the winter.
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Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty

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An eastern grey kangaroo hops near a brumby in the Yarrangobilly area of Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park on August 24, 2020. Free-roaming feral horses, known as brumbies, are found across Australia. Believed to be descended from animals imported by early British colonialists, the brumby population is estimated to be in the thousands, with the highest concentration of horses roaming Australia’s alpine region, which straddles the state border of Victoria and New South Wales. With large numbers of brumbies trampling through protected national parks, their fate has long been a subject of heated debate. On one side are those that want the total eradication of the animals—those who consider them a feral, invasive, and destructive species. At the other end are those who advocate for the protection of what are viewed as heritage animals, so named for their role in the mythology of the high country, immortalized in poems such as Banjo Paterson’s “The Man from Snowy River.”
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A bald eagle peers down at a passerby on the sidewalk below its perch on August 15, 2020, in Juneau, Alaska.
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Becky Bohrer / AP

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Susan Smith talks to her guide dog, Samson, inside the medical center at the evacuation center at the Jackson County Fairgrounds on September 16, 2020, in Central Point, Oregon, as devastating wildfires burned through the region.
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Paula Bronstein / AFP / Getty

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Hundreds of pilot whales are seen stranded on a sand bar in Strahan, Australia, on September 21, 2020. More than 200 pilot whales were stranded on a sandbank in Macquarie Harbour on the west coast
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