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A dog runs around a bank while civilians receive a one-time cash donation from Russian-backed rebels on February 25, 2015, in Debaltseve, Ukraine.

The grandchildren of a Palestinian man, Saad al-Jamal, pet two lion cubs outside their family house in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on March 19, 2015. Al-Jamal, who says he bought the two-month-old cubs from the Rafah Zoo, lives with the animal inside this family home.

Zoo staff Sholpan Abdibekova and Tomiris, a 5-year-old chimpanzee, react as they watch a BBC environmental program in a primate winter enclosure in Almaty on March 6, 2015. Zoo employees screen various wildlife TV programs to primates like Tomiris, who were born in the zoo, to help their development at the zoo.

Swans swim over a lake, with the air temperature at about minus 35 degrees Celsius (minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit) as steam ascends above the water during sunset near the village of Urozhainy, Russia, on January 26, 2015.

A gray whale (<em>Eschrichtius robustus</em>) emerges from the waters of the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, on March 3, 2015. The Pacific gray whales have been protected since 1947 and are at the center of a growing whale-sightseeing industry. Their numbers have dropped by a third, from around 26,000 in the late 1990s. Whales go to Laguna de Liebre and others lagoons off Mexico's northwest Baja California peninsula, where grey whales breed and nurse their calves…

A dog walks the runway during a New York Pet Fashion Show event during Fashion Week in the Manhattan borough of New York on February 12, 2015.

Bats hang from the roof of a cave in Mikulov, Czech Republic, on March 9, 2015. Up to 600 bats spend the winter here in the caves.