China: Corgi Battles Goose in Shandong

On October 6, 2025, in Shandong Province, a corgi visiting its owner’s hometown found itself in a fierce barnyard standoff. When a white goose tried to chase the small dog from the courtyard, the corgi barked back and lunged, dodging pecks and countering with quick snaps. The two animals fought evenly as family members laughed nearby.

Black-tailed Gull

Black-tailed Gull

QINGDAO, CHINA - AUGUST 22, 2024 - A black-tailed gull subadult pecks at a crab at the Suliu pier of Hongdao Street in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Aug 22, 2024.

Penguin at Hokkaido zoo gets block of ice

Penguin at Hokkaido zoo gets block of ice

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A penguin at the Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido pecks a block of ice, a gift from the zoo, on July 26, 2014.

Penguin at Hokkaido zoo gets block of ice

Penguin at Hokkaido zoo gets block of ice

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A penguin at the Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido pecks a block of ice, a gift from the zoo, on July 26, 2014. (Kyodo)

Ostrich in Fukushima no-entry zone

Ostrich in Fukushima no-entry zone

TOKYO, Japan - In this supplied file photo taken in September 2011 in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, a runaway ostrich pecks at dog food on the ground in the government-designated no-entry zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. About 30 ostriches were kept at a farm in Okuma before the March 11 earthquake-tsunami caused radiation leakage at the plant. (Photo provided by the Japanese government's nuclear disaster headquarters)(Kyodo)

Iriomote Island in southern Japan

Iriomote Island in southern Japan

A Pacific swallow pecks the body of a pigeon on a road on Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on the evening of May 12, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo