Nick Garbutt / Adult Helmet Vanga (Euryceros prevostii) incubating a clutch of 3 eggs. Nest constructed in the fork of a Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium sp.) Masoala National Park, north east Madagascar.

Lou Coetzer / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) cow reassuring young calf with trunk, Chobe River, Botswana, October, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) adult and juvenile silhouetted, Chobe River, Botswana, August, Vulnerable species.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching whilst attacking seal decoy, Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching whilst attacking seal decoy, Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) feeding on Brydes whale carcass (Balaenoptera brydei), Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) feeding on Brydes whale carcass (Balaenoptera brydei), Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

Andy Rouse / Verreaux Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) jumping ('dancing') across ground, Madagascar

Andy Rouse / Verreaux Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) portrait, Madagascar

Andy Rouse / Verreaux Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) jumping across ground with baby on its back, Madagascar

David Pattyn / Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) portrait, Lake Kerkini, Greece. February. Highly honoured in the Birds Category of Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition...

Bernard Castelein / Red-bellied Lemur (Eulemur rubriventer) pair, Ialasatra, Madagascar

Sandesh Kadur / Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) walking along fallen tree trunk, Assam, India, captive. Vulnerable species.

Ben Cranke / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd walking in procession, Kaokoveld Desert, Namibia

Andy Rouse / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) silhoutted against setting sun. Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa, August.

Denis-Huot / Lion (Panthera leo) mating, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. Vulnerable species.

Igor Shpilenok / European Bison (Bison bonasus) calf and mother portrait. 'Mefody', first calf born to reintroduced herd in Bryansk Forest. Bryansk Forest Zapovednik, Kamchatka, Russian Far East, May.

Ingo Arndt / Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) female digging nest on beach for laying eggs, Pacific Coast, Ostional, Costa Rica.

Ingo Arndt / Olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) females coming ashore at sunset during an arribada (mass nesting event) to lay eggs, Pacific Coast, Ostional, Costa Rica.

Ingo Arndt / Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) swimming in open ocean not far from the nesting beach, Pacific Coast, Ostional, Costa Rica.

Nick Garbutt / Bornean sun bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus) climbing tree at Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC), Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo.

Pedro Narra / Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis) close up, Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / European bison (Bison bonasus), Drawsko Military area, Western Pomerania, Poland, February.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / European bison (Bison bonasus), Drawsko Military area, Western Pomerania, Poland, February.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / European bison (Bison bonasus), large bull, Drawsko Military area, Western Pomerania, Poland, February.

Dong Lei / Hoolock gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys)feeding, Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve, Tengchong county, Yunnan Province, China, Asia

Andrew Parkinson / Brown hare (Lepus europaeus) a newborn leveret, less than an hour after birth, instinctively lies motionless in a field of newly planted crops. Derbyshire, UK, March. Winner of British Seasons categor...

Gabriel Rojo / Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting sea lion pups, Peninsula Valdez, Patagonia Argentina

Anup Shah / Southern or Sunda Pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) mature male standing portrait. Wild but used to being fed by local people. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carchardon carcharias) False Bay, South Africa

Chris & Monique Fallows / Mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) Cape Point, South Africa

Chris & Monique Fallows / Mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) Cape Point, South Africa

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carchardon carcharias) breaching on seal decoy at dawn, False Bay, South Africa

Bertie Gregory / Vancouver Island black bear (Ursus americanus vancouveri) mother with cubs on a beach, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, July.

Bertie Gregory / Vancouver island black bears (Ursus americanus vancouveri) taken with remote camera, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, August.

Lou Coetzer / Baby Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) playing in water, Chobe River, Botswana, May, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) cow with her two calves, Chobe River, Botswana, August, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) bull feeding in deep flood waters, Chobe River, Botswana, April, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) calf in water with mother's reassuring trunk resting on head, Chobe River, Botswana, April, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) pair courting, Chobe River, Botswana, April, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / Young bull African elephant (Loxodonta africana) splashing in water, Chobe River, Botswana, March, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) silhouetted against orange sky, Chobe River, Botswana, Vulnerable species.

Mark Bowler / Red Howler Monkey (Alouatta seniculus) hanging by tail with non-prehensile tailed Peruvian red uakari monkey (Cacajao calvus ucayalii). Captive at Pilpintuwasi Animal Orphanage, Padre Cocha, Iquitos,...

Eric Baccega / Polar bear cub 3 months (Ursus maritimus) playing in the front of the day den in march. Wapusk National Park. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

Eric Baccega / Polar bear cub 3 months (Ursus maritimus) playing in the front of the day den in March. Wapusk National Park. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

Eric Baccega / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) female coming out the den with one three month cub. Wapusk National Park, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, March.

Eric Baccega / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) female coming out the den with one three month cub. Wapusk National Park, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, March.

Angelo Gandolfi / Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) walking in front of domestic cattle, Pantanal, Brazil

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching on seal decoy, Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, August.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) at surface with mouth open, Cape Point, South Africa, March.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) feeding on Brydes whale carcass (Balaenoptera brydei), Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, September.

Roberto Rinaldi / Sulawesi bear cuscus (Ailurops ursinus) Sulawesi, Indonesia. Vulnerable species.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Bronze whaler sharks (Carcharhinus brachyurus) feeding on sardines (Sardinops ocellata) East London, South Africa.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) feeding on Brydes whale carcass (Balaenoptera brydei) Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) having a wash to remove oil from feathers, during hand rearing and rehabilitation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Cape...

Denis-Huot / Lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) profile, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Andy Rouse / Verreaux Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) with prehensile tail curled round, Madagascar

David Pattyn / Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) pelican landing while fishing.Lake Kerkini, Greece. February

Jack Dykinga / Chestnut mandibled toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus swainsonii) in tropical rainforest canopy with beech almond fruit. Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Franco Banfi / tail detail of Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) juvenile spreading body weight over thin newly forming pack ice, trying not to break through, Beaufort Sea, off the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, North...

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) curious subadult along a barrier island in autumn, Beaufort Sea, off the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, North Slope, Alaska

Sandesh Kadur / Golden Langur (Trachypithecus geei) in tree, Chakrashila, Assam, India. Endangered

Daniel Heuclin / Eastern common Cuscus (Phalanger intercastellanus) helpless baby held in human hand, Fergusson's Island, Papua New Guinea

Bert Willaert / Male green Darwin's Frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) with young in vocal pouch, Chile, December 2012, Vulnerable species

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) in forest, Meili Snow Mountain NP, Yunnan, China

Juan Carlos Munoz / Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) in forest clearing, Komodo Island, Indonesia

Anup Shah / Young African elelphants (Loxodonta africana) in herd herd at a waterhole. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, July

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) emerging from defensive ball, cerrado of Piaui State, Northeastern Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) curled in to a defensive ball, cerrado of Piaui State, Northeastern Brazil.

Juergen Freund / Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) in strangler fig tree, Tangkoko National Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Juergen Freund / Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) feeding on fish near a fishing device called ?Bagan?, a stationary outrigger boat, with a net between outriggers and strong light at night to attract anchovies and scad....

Juergen Freund / Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding on jellyfish. Juvenile mackerel still hides beside the jellyfish about to lose its home.

Denis-Huot / Lion (Panthera leo) male smelling, 'flehmen response', Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. Vulnerable species.

Barrie Britton / Yellow-headed Picathartes / White necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) Kambui Hills, Sierra Leone, Vulnerable species. Photograph taken on location for BBC Africa series, September 2010.

Denis-Huot / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mother and juveniles, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. Vulnerable species.

Denis-Huot / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cub aged 6 months yawning, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. Vulnerable species.

Danny Green / Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) male swimming, Varangerfjord, Norway, April, Vulnerable species. Bookplate from Danny Green's 'The Long Journey North'

Jabruson / Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) splashing for position in watery mud wallow, Rwindi sector of the Virunga National Park. This was taken before the massive slaughter of hippos in the region at t...

Andy Trowbridge / Kea (Nestor notabilis) portrait. The yellow at the top of the beak indicates that this is a jurvnile bird. Arthur's Pass National Park, South Island, New Zealand, December.

Bert Willaert / Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola). Zvanets fen mire, Belarus, Europe. Vulnerable Species.

David Tipling / Dalmatian Pelicans (Pelicanus crispus) being fed by fisherman at Lake Kerkini, Northern Greece, February

XI ZHINONG / Wild White-Lipped Deer (Przewalskium albirostris) male, Kekexili, Qinghai, Tibetan Plateau, China. Vulnerable species.

George Sanker / American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) cub. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, June.

David Pattyn / Dalmatian Pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) portrait. Lake Kerkini, Greece, March 2012.

Ann & Steve Toon / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd walking to the river to drink, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Denis-Huot / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana), baby playing with a branch. Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.

Denis-Huot / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) kneeling in mud and rain. Aberdares National Park, Kenya.

Tony Heald / Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) ears flicking water when opening after surfacing, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, October 2012

Tony Heald / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) walking portrait, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, October 2012

Tony Heald / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) getting out of Zambezi River, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, October 2012

Tony Heald / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) very young baby walking profile, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, October 2012

Staffan Widstrand / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) stretching out in snow, Svalbard, Norway

Staffan Widstrand / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) portrait with blue tongue sticking out, Svalbard, Norway

XI ZHINONG / Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) crossing road infront of a truck, Kekexili, Qinghai, China, January

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) paralysed after being bitten by paralytic ticks having medicine administered by owner and main carer Jenny Mclean at Tolga Bat Hospital, North Queensl...