Mark Taylor / German Shepherd Dog bitch pup, Coco, 14 weeks old, with raised paw.

Konrad Wothe / Iceberg in Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA, July 2006

Juergen Freund / A fisherman who lost his arm dynamite fishing. Palawan, Phillipines, May 2009.

Brent Stephenson / Steep rock walls of the Tracy Arm, carved out by glacial action over millions of years. Alaska, United States, July 2010.

Juergen Freund / Member of West Papuan dive boat crew free-swimming underwater. North Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, February 2010

Florian Möllers / Baby male Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) "Klauce" (4 months) in the arm of his mother "Kalema". Budongo Forest Reserve, Masindi, Uganda, Africa. December

Petra Wegner / British Shorthair Cat, kitten, golden-ticked-tabby, being administered ophthalmic ointment by a woman. Model released

Laurent Geslin / Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) perched on the arm of a classical stone statue, urban park, Paris, France, April.

Nick Upton / Cleg fly / Horsefly (Haematopa pluvialis) sucking blood from photographer's arm, Wiltshire pastureland, UK, June.

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq / Inuit man hold his hand under the midnight sun in the Chukchi Sea, off shore from the arctic village of Barrow, Alaska, USA. April 2009

David Woodfall / Young Bangladeshi with young brother in monsoon rain washing in pond, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, November 2008

Jeff Rotman / Dolphin trainer interacting with Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), Dolphin Reef, Eilat, Israel - Red Sea. Model released.