Pidgin

• Ian Sample, Cat got your tongue? Study to examine if pets adopt owner’s accent, The Guardian, March 30, 2016

The researchers say cats and humans appear to develop a pidgin language to communicate better. Photo: Andrew Marttila/Rex Shutterstock.

Outnumbered

Aoshima, Japan: Cats roam freely in Aoshima, where they outnumber humans by more than five to one. Photo: Aflo/Barcroft Media.

Red Tails

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The Queue

Willow, Alaska: Musher Justin Savidis’ dogs wait in the truck for their turn at the restart of the Iditarod trail sled dog race... Photo: Nathaniel Wilder/Reuters.

Happy hour

Bangkok, Thailand: Elephants feast on fruit and vegetables during a buffet before the start of the King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament. Photo: Diego Azubel/EPA.

Laying in the Snow

Orenburg Reserves, Russia: Przewalski horses, born at a reserve in the south of France, spend their first winter in the snow at a horse reintroduction project. The animals were extinct in the wild 20 years ago. Photo: Tatjana Zharkikh/AFP/Getty Images.

Crocodile Rock

Manila, Philippines: A worker feeds crocodile Shaquille at Malabon zoo on the third world wildlife day. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images.

Giraffe Reflections

Kolkata, India: A four-year-old giraffe looks out from its cage while being transported to a zoological park in Bhubaneswar. Photo: Bikas Das/AP.

Where elephants live

Stephanie Sinclair, United States Professional; Daily Life “The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus is made up of people from 25 different countries, speaking everything from Russian to Arabic to Guarani. A few travel in cars and trailers, but a majority – 270 – live on the trains. Most come from multi-generation circus families, to the extent that collectively, the circus staff represents thousands of years of circus history”. Photo: Stephanie Sinclair/Sony World Photography Awards.

ਚੁਗਲ (Spotted owlet)

Ahmedabad, India: A spotted owlet appears to be playing peek-a-boo near Rancharda Lake. The species is common across the Indian subcontinent. Photo: Caters News Agency.

Chilly Monkeys

杭州 (Hángzhōu), China: Not feeling as brave as the pandas, fellow zoo residents the monkeys take shelter under a rock. Photo: 许康平 (Xǔ Kāngpíng)/EPA.

Why is the snow white?

杭州 (Hángzhōu), China: Giant pandas play in the snow in their enclosure at the city’s zoo. A powerful cold front is sweeping through China, bringing snow to the South. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.

Birthday Cake

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: The 11-year old female Sumatran orangutan called Tsunami eats a fruit platter as part of her birthday celebrations at the National zoo. She was named in commemoration of the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 and as a symbol of rebirth and redevelopment of the villages on the west coast of the country. Photo: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images.

Snow fence

Almaty, Kazakhstan: A squirrel runs on a snowy fence in a park. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters.

Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep

Yangon, Myanmar: Two leopard cats at Hlawga Wildlife Park. Photo: U Aung/新华通讯社 (Xīnhuá News Agency)/Corbis.

Галоп (Gallop)

Siberia, Russia: Horses gallop through a field outside Malaya Tumna village, with the air temperature at about –24C. Photo: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters.

Royal Swans

A pair of mute swans on the Molchadka river near the village of Dvorets, Belarus. Photo: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

冠鹤属 (Balearica)

A West African crowned crane at the Pata Zoo which is located on the top floor of a shopping centre in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: Diego Azubel/EPA.

No Dead Ends

Hong Kong (香港), China: A campaigner for the Hong Kong Vegetarian Society lies on a mock plate as a meat dish. Photo: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images.

Community property

I wish there to be in my house: A woman possessing reason, A cat among books passing by, Friends for every season Lacking whom I’m barely alive. Guillaume Apollinaire

English translation by A. S. Kline