Suzi Eszterhas / Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), orphaned baby in arms of research assistant. Taipei Zoo, Taipei, Taiwan. 2015. Captive. Model released.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chick aged six to eight weeks stretching whilst on brooding parent's feet. Adult looking down at chick. Atka Bay, Antarctica. September.

Agustin Esmoris / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) male calling and bleeding after fight, Puerto Madryn, Argentina

Solvin Zankl / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers looking after queen cells, Kiel, Germany

Thomas Marent / Cotton-top Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) with red pollen after feeding on flower nectar, Tayrona National Natural Park, Colombia

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) wild female, wet after having crossed river, in mountain valley, Uchkul River, Sarychat-Ertash Strict Nature Reserve, Tien Shan Mountains, eastern Kyrgyzstan

Juergen Freund / Tolga Bat Hospital volunteer handing Little red flying fox (Pteropus scapulatus) baby as it flaps her wings, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. May 2015. Second Place in t...

Juergen Freund / Tolga Bat Hospital director Jenny Maclean rescuing, Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) caught in barbed wire fence. Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. April 2015. Second Place i...

Juergen Freund / Tolga Bat Hospital volunteer with Little red flying fox (Pteropus scapulatus) crawling over shoulder. Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. August 2014. Second Place in the M...

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) mother with rare white furred baby, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Laurent Geslin / Young Benna woman looking after cattle and showing the scars on her back, these are inflicted on teenage girls by their brothers and are considered a mark of beauty and bravery, the girls provoke thei...

Laurent Geslin / Young Benna woman looking after cattle and showing the scars on her back, these are inflicted on teenage girls by their brothers and are considered a mark of beauty and bravery, the girls provoke thei...

Laurent Geslin / Young Benna herdsman looking after his cattle, Omo valley, Ethiopia, 2006

Laurent Geslin / Fulani teenage girl looking after her young brother, sunrise, North Senegal, West Africa, 2005

Denis-Huot / African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) male covered with mud after mud bathing, Nakuru National Park, Kenya

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) in winter coat coming to a stop after running, Scotland, UK, February

Juergen Freund / Anthea Melsen smiles shyly as she comes out of the water after looking at her grandfather's coral and clam gardens, Onma Lodge, Kolombangara, Western Province, Solomon Islands, July 2010

Mark Raycroft / English Bulldog (Canis familiaris) puppy laying on grass with tennis balls, tired after playing

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Leopard (Panthera pardus) large male resting after hunt and devouring its kill, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Eric Baccega / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) reintroduction to Bateke Plateau National Park through Gorilla Protection Project. Keeper giving female Gorilla drink through cage during transfer fro...

Alan Williams / River Dee swollen after heavy rain flowing through Llangollen looking west from the road bridge, North Wales, UK, October 2018.

Nick Upton / Captive reared juvenile White stork (Ciconia ciconia) in flight over the Knepp Estate soon after release,looking down, Sussex, UK, August 2019.

Yashpal Rathore / Kamabala buffalo racing - Indian men looking after buffalo, and watching timer during buffalo races. Karnataka, India, January 2019.

Yashpal Rathore / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) young female (MV3) looking to establish her own territory after separating from her . Kanha National Park, Central India. Camera trap image.

Suzi Eszterhas / Research assistant holding twelve day old orphaned baby Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla). Taipei Zoo, Taipei, Taiwan. 2014. Captive. Model released.

Suzi Eszterhas / Research assistant holding twelve day old orphaned baby Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla). Taipei Zoo, Taipei, Taiwan. 2014. Captive. Model released.

Suzi Eszterhas / Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus), orphaned joeys in outdoor area at Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, Brighton, Tasmania, Australia. Captive. Model released.

Suzi Eszterhas / Animal carer holding Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus). The wombat was orphaned after its mother was hit by a car. To be released into wild. Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, Brighton, Tasmania, Australia....

Juergen Freund / Margit Cianelli wildlife carer looking after Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) baby. Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. Model released.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) adult looking after chicks, catching one chick to stop it walking away. Atka Bay, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. October.

Nick Upton / Sniffer dog Freya sitting and looking at a Great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) she found in a flowerbed after dark during a training exercise, Somerset, UK, September 2018.

Donald M. Jones / Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) owlet after heavy rainfall, Yaak, Montana

Neil Aldridge / Rescued wild-born Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is dried off after being given a bath by his carer at a house in southern England. Due to its condition, this fox will never be returned to the wild. January...

Bernard Castelein / Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis), female looking after spiderlings, Brasschaat, Belgium, July.. July

Bernard Castelein / Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis), female looking after spiderlings, Brasschaat, Belgium. June

Tony Wu / Jawfish (Opistognathus sp) looking around after spitting out sand and rubble to maintain burrow. Lembeh Strait, Celebes Sea, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Agustin Esmoris / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) male calling and bleeding after fight, Puerto Madryn, Argentina

Eric Baccega / Giant panda female Huan Huan nursing cub, three months old (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), captive, with keeper looking after them, Beauval Zoo, France, October 2017.

Hiroya Minakuchi / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) feeding on Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) after washing it, Miyazaki, Japan

Nick Upton / Samantha Pickering looking at a week-old abandoned Common pipistrelle bat pup (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) after giving it a two houry feed at night, North Devon Bat Care, Barnstaple, Devon, UK, June 2...

Pete Oxford / White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) horn carried by ranger after poachers abandoned it, South Africa

Pete Oxford / White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) horn carried by ranger after poachers abandoned it, South Africa

Pete Oxford / White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) horn carried by ranger after poachers abandoned it, South Africa

Pete Oxford / White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) horn cut off by rangers after poachers abandoned it, South Africa

Kerstin Hinze / European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) female with pups age six days, captive.

Kerstin Hinze / European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) female with pups age six days, captive.

Kerstin Hinze / European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) female with pups age six days, captive.

Kerstin Hinze / European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) female with pups age six days, captive.

Anup Shah / Southern plains grey langur / Hanuman langur (Semnopithecus dussumieri) juvenile playing with a infant while its mother watches. Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. March.

Nick Upton / Rescued Grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) on a beach looking out to sea on release day, after recovering from its injuries through treatment and rehabilitation at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary, North Co...

Nick Upton / Rescued Grey seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) looking out of a trailer on arrival coast for release, after recovering from their injuries through treatment and rehabilitation at the Cornish Seal Sanctua...

Nick Upton / Alec Farr looking his photo of female Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) now identified by Sue Sayer by its unique coat patterns as 'Hufflepuff', a seal released after treatment at the Cornish Seal sanctu...

Juergen Freund / Tolga Bat Hospital volunteer handling Little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) babies wrapped in nappies cuddling a pillow and sucking on pacifier. Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton Tablelands, Queens...

Anup Shah / Eastern Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) male, thirty-five years old, after displaying, Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Pete Oxford / Chang Naga tribe man bathing daughter, with sleeping son. on back,Tuensang district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Chang Naga tribe man bathing daughter, with sleeping son. on back,Tuensang district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) mother with rare white furred baby, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) mother with rare white furred baby, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Nick Upton / Emily Howard-Williams placing a grain feeding station equipped with an automatic Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) monitor to survey Harvest mice (Micromys minutus) in field enclosure after releas...

David Woodfall / Beekeeper looking after honey bees (Apis mellifera) in allotments, Cwmbran, Gwent, Wales, UK. August 2014.

David Woodfall / Beekeeper looking after honey bees (Apis mellifera) in allotments, Cwmbran, Gwent, Wales, UK. August 2014.

Matthew Maran / Man with motorbike looking at road impasssable after flooding, Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Hired man in hammock looking after truck from Nigeria, Niamey, Niger, 2005.

Anup Shah / Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) female looking after two babies aged 2-4 weeks one her own the other belonging to another female to whom it returned. Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Ma...

Anup Shah / Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) female looking after two babies aged 2-4 weeks - one of which is her own. Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

Suzi Eszterhas / Raccoon (Procyon lotor) orphaned juvenile hiding in hollow trunk after being released into the wild, WildCare Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, San Rafael, California

Laurent Geslin / Bee keeper looking after Honey bees (Apis mellifera) Europe

Laurent Geslin / Boys looking after cattle and collecting dung for fuel, Deshnoke village, Rajasthan, India. 2004

Eric Baccega / Celine Boulade, ethologist and keeper looking after a male and female Common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) as they interact during the breeding season, Association 'Sauvegarde Faune Sauvage d'Alsace' (P...

Eric Baccega / Celine Boulade, ethologist and keeper looking after a couple of Common hamsters (Cricetus cricetus) which are standing alert, during breeding season, Association 'Sauvegarde Faune Sauvage d'Alsace' (P...

Eric Baccega / Celine Boulade, ethologist and keeper looking after a couple of common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) during the breeding season, releasing on from cage into a neutral area. Association 'Sauvegarde Faune...

Cyril Ruoso / Peters' Tent-making Bat (Uroderma bilobatum) roosting under large leaf after making incisions causing leaf to bend and form tent, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Cyril Ruoso / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) eating a sweet potato after washing it in the ocean, Kojima, Japan

Cyril Ruoso / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) eating a sweet potato after washing it in the ocean, Kojima, Japan

Cyril Ruoso / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) alpha male grooming female after copulation, Yakushima Island, Japan

Suzi Eszterhas / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) cater looking after sick juvenile (approx. five years) during forest exploration and training program. Orangutan Care Center, Borneo, Indonesia.

Suzi Eszterhas / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) large male with hair pile standing erect after dominance display, tropical forest, Western Uganda

Mark Taylor / Black-and-white tuxedo kitten, Tuxie, 10 weeks old, looking up after washing his paw.

Denis-Huot / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana), female looking after babies resting. Samburu game reserve, Kenya.

Mark Taylor / Tabby male kitten, Fosset, 3 months old, looking up after funnel-grooming.

Philippe Clement / Palaeontologists and tourists looking for fossils on beach after landslide at the Black Ven between Lyme Regis and Charmouth along the Jurassic Coast, Dorset, UK, November 2012

Steven David Miller / Lesser Sooty Owl (Tyto multipunctata) perched on tree trunk. Wildlife Dome, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Captive (wild bird brought in after being injured)

Petra Wegner / Mixed breed dog, short haired bitch, standing, wearing blue body stocking after having surgery.

Petra Wegner / Mixed breed dog, short haired bitch, sitting down wearing blue body stocking after having surgery.

Petra Wegner / Mixed breed dog, short haired bitch, lying down wearing blue body stocking after having surgery.

Petra Wegner / Mixed breed dog, short haired bitch, lying down wearing blue body stocking after having surgery.

Petra Wegner / Mixed breed dog, short haired bitch, sitting with leg partly sheared after surgery.

Petra Wegner / Mixed breed dog, short haired bitch, standing with leg partly sheared after surgery.

Petra Wegner / Mixed breed dog, bitch, lying down, wearing red t-shirt after having surgery.

Mike Read / Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) adult looking after newly hatched chick at nest and removing egg shell, Blashford Lakes WT Reserve, Hampshire, UK June

Mike Read / Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) adult looking after newly hatched chicks at nest, Blashford Lakes WT Reserve, Hampshire, UK June

Petra Wegner / Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, blenheim, after surgery of the eye, wearing a protective funnel.

Gerry Ellis / Fisherman, Nick Collins, with oyster harvest one year after BP disaster, only a few are alive out of 2,000 bivalves, Louisiana

Andrew Parkinson / 2020VISION / Pair of sibling Marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) chicks in nest after heavy rain. Sculthorpe Nature Reserve, Norfolk, UK, July 2010. Did you know? Although marsh harriers hunt rodents, their main pr...

Ross Hoddinott / Summerleaze beach, looking towards Crooklets, after sunset. Bude, north Cornwall, UK, July 2011.