A hamster perks up at a cemetery in Vienna in May 2017. The common hamster is at risk in parts of Europe, but conservation efforts have improved its chances of survival. Courtesy of Michaela Vondruska hide caption
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Watch out for Merlina — she'll steal your lunch with no regrets. Christopher Skaife hide caption
Indian officials may need to try Calvin Klein's Obsession in order to lure a man-killing tiger. (The tigers pictured are not the exact ones mentioned in this story.) PA Images via Getty Images hide caption
Gentoo penguins relax in the cool temperatures at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in 2016. Sphen and Magic, the newest penguin couple in the aquarium, are fostering an egg together. James D. Morgan/Getty Images hide caption
Screenshot from BBC's "Fighting fire with goats" BBC/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Should chimpanzees have legal rights? Steven Wise hide caption
Steven Wise: If Chimpanzees Can Feel And Think, Should They Also Have Legal Rights?
Vancouver activist and community food developer Ian Marcuse rides a bike outfitted like a spawning salmon created by artist Tamara Unroe. Murray Bush/Wild Salmon Caravan 2018 hide caption
A woman who boarded her Frontier flight with an emotional support squirrel (not this one) was escorted off the plane on Tuesday. Robert F. Bukaty/AP hide caption
Bear 409 was named "Fattest Bear" at Katmai National Park and Preserve on Tuesday. Used with permission from Katmai National Park and Preserve hide caption
One-day-old baby giraffe calf Gus looks at the camera on May 12, 2017, in Bristol, England. This little guy may have inherited his spots from his mother. Matt Cardy/Getty Images hide caption
The New England Aquarium team searching for right whales, at sunrise in the Bay of Fundy. Johanna Anderson and Kelsey Howe scan the waters while Marianna Hagbloom logs data, Amy Knowlton adjusts a GPS unit, and Brigid McKenna steers the Nereid. Murray Carpenter for NPR hide caption
In Changing Climate, Endangered Right Whales Find New Feeding Grounds
A waxwing eats a berry on an arrowwood tree. Cedar and other waxwings are known to gorge on fermented berries and other fruits, leading them to appear drunk. Kirill Kukhmar/Getty Images hide caption
Michelle and Rick Riendeau reunite with Lady, their dachshund who had been missing for five years. Rob Miller/NorwichBulletin.com hide caption
Red-bellied lemurs in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Researchers who observed nine of the animals there could clearly see them sniffing fruit and deciding whether to eat it based on how it smelled. N. Rowe & Centre ValBio hide caption
Gomi, a year-old female Pungsan, is one of a pair of dogs given to South Korea from the North. South Korea Presidential Blue House via AP hide caption
The Peregrine Fund recently released four California condors over high cliffs in Northern Arizona. In 1982, there were only 22 of these giant birds left in the wild. George Andrejko/Courtesy, Arizona Game and Fish Department hide caption
Staff at the National Zoo are mourning the loss of Muneca, a 51-year-old white-cheeked gibbon who was euthanized on Friday. Mehgan Murphy/Smithsonian Institution hide caption
State herpetologist J.D. Kleopfer says the discovery of a two-headed copperhead snake in Northern Virginia earlier this month is an "extraordinarily rare" sighting that few of his colleagues have seen. J.D. Kleopfer/Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries hide caption