Alex Mustard / Common seahorse (Hippocampus kuda) female wrapping her prehensile tail around piece of wood on the seabed. Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lembeh Strait, Molucca Sea.

Alex Mustard / Portrait of a male short snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) in sea oak seaweed (Halidrys siliquosa). Devon, England, United Kingdom. British Isles. English Channel. North East Atlantic Ocean.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) jumping out the water, Shetland, Scotland, UK, January.

Loic Poidevin / Stoat (Mustela erminea) Creux du Van, Jura Suisse , Switzerland, September.

Robert Valentic / Short-nosed fruit-bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) roosting, Ko Chang Island, Thailand.

Jed Weingarten / Wild Wonders of China / Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) carrying young baby, Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China

Chase Dekker / Long-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus capensis) pod porpoising, Monterey Bay, California

Mark Carwardine / Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) aerial view, Baja California, Mexico

Piotr Naskrecki / Chestnut Short-tailed Bat (Carollia castanea) flying, La Selva Biological Reserve, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Silky Short-tailed Bat (Carollia brevicauda) flying, La Selva Biological Reserve, Costa Rica

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) juvenile climbing in a tree in Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China

Tui De Roy / Short tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) subadult with fish-hook and monofilament line embedded in throat. Tsubamezaki, Torishima Island, Japan. December.