Tim Laman / Logs stacked near the charcoal kilns. Charcoal production near Taiping, Malaysia, where (Rhizophora apiculata) mangrove wood from the Matang Mangroves is used to produce charcoal using traditional methods. Taiping vicinity, Perak, Malaysia. May 2006

Tim Laman / Logs stacked near the charcoal kilns. Charcoal production near Taiping, Malaysia, where (Rhizophora apiculata) mangrove wood from the Matang Mangroves is used to produce charcoal using traditional methods. Taiping vicinity, Perak, Malaysia. May 2006

Edwin Giesbers / Indigo snake (Drymarchon corais) captive, from Central and South America

Pete Oxford / Assassin bug {Reduviidae} Yasuani NP, Ecuador South Americ

JIM CLARE / Arrau turtle laying eggs in sand {Podocnemis expansa} Rio Trombactus, Brazil, South Americ

Premaphotos / Cockroach (Paratropes lycoides), which from a distance resembles a fallen seed pod but close-up has warning coloration somewhat like a distasteful lycid beetle, in rainforest, Peru

Rod Williams / Coscoroba swan {Coscoroba coscoroba} captive from S Americ