Photos of the Year: Animals

The best animal photos of 2018 from the REUTERS agency.

15 PHOTOS

1. A dog leaps into the air to catch a ball along a beach near Kerry village in Rossby County, Ireland, February 4, 2018.

2. A young hunter stands next to his tamed golden eagle during the annual hunting competition at the Almaty racetrack in Kazakhstan on February 9, 2018.

3.Sheep move along a road near the Koktokai mine during their seasonal migration in Altai Prefecture, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China September 19, 2018.

4. Cloned monkeys Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China, January 20, 2018.

5. A British blue cat is illuminated by sunlight scattered through an aquarium in an apartment in Krasnoyarsk, July 8, 2018.

6. Mahut bathes his elephant in the polluted water of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India, February 6, 2018.

7. Internet Celebrity Dog @jiffpom during a presentation at the annual F8 Developers Conference on Facebook Inc in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018.

8.A tornado, elephant, and zebras pass through Amboseli National Park, Kenya on August 19, 2018.

9. Penguins come ashore in Neko harbor, Antarctica, February 16, 2018.

10. Fox walks past 10 Downing Street in London on January 16, 2018.

11. A dog looks out from a house covered in ice off the coast in Faxe Bay, south of Copenhagen, March 19, 2018.

12. Fishermen at work in the port of Matosinhos, Portugal, May 28, 2018.

13.On 16 May 2018, in the southern part of Israel, in the vicinity of the village of Beit Kama, people saw migrating starlings.

14. Birds sit on the back of a zebra in Nairobi National Park, near Nairobi, Kenya, November 21, 2018.

15.52-year-old Cynthia Lagreis, co-owner of EMMA Acres dairy farm, discusses the state of dairy farms with brother Paul Bailey in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, April 12, 2018.