Martin Dohrn / African driver / Siafu / Safari ant biting {Dorylus/ Anomma speciess). Species is non-stinging, but jaws can tear human flesh. East Africa

Jeff Rotman / Irula Snake Tribe member holding vials of snake anti-venom for Viper, Krait and Cobra bites. Southern India.

Anup Shah / Cheetah cub bites throat of gazelle prey, Masai Mara, Kenya {Acinonyx jubatus}

Anup Shah / Female Cheetah bites throat of gazelle prey, Masai Mara, Kenya {Acinonyx jubatus}

Jabruson / Milking venom from Spectacled cobra {Naja naja kaouthia} Bangkok, Thailand. Used for anti-venom production. Snake bites onto glass plate and ejects venom.

Tony Phelps / Angulate Tortoise (Chersina angulata) young female alive, but with baboon bites. DeHoop Nature reserve, Western Cape, South Africa.

Roland Seitre / Jason Vargas Aguerro 'Crocodile Man' showing scars from American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) bites. Carara National Park, Tarcoles, Costa Rica, August 2008.

Tony Phelps / Human hand with bite from Cape cobra (Naja nivea) showing local necrosis 24 days after the bite. Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa, April.

Tony Phelps / Bite from Cape Cobra snake (Naja nivea) on human limb,48 hours after the bite, showng blistering and swelling. Western Cape, South Africa. Model released

Tony Phelps / Bite from Cape Cobra snake (Naja nivea) showing blistering and swelling on human hand 48 hours after the bite. South Africa. Model released

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forest Nenets girl stitching up wounded Reindeer / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) that has been bitten by dog. Khanty-Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia, 2000.

Edwin Giesbers / Sri Lankan Leopards (Panthera pardus kotiya) pair mating, and male bites the scuff of female, captive.

Kristel Richard / A wild Misaki-uma breeding stallion bites away a bachelor stallion, in the Cape Toi Reserve, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan.

Kristel Richard / A wild Misaki-uma breeding stallion (Equus ferus caballus) bites away a bachelor stallion, in the Cape Toi Reserve, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan.

Kristel Richard / A wild Misaki-uma breeding stallion (Equus ferus caballus) bites one of his young mares who was wandering too far away from the band, in the Cape Toi Reserve, Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japa...

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Assassin bug / Wheel bug (Arilus cristatus). It gets its name from a structure on its thorax which resembles a gear or saw blade. The wheel bug is notorious for its painful bite, but it only bites by...

Angelo Gandolfi / The traditional iron collar used to protect sheepdogs from Wolf bites, Europe

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) cub mistakenly bites its mothers mouth, along a barrier island on the Arctic coast, Alaska

Robert Valentic / Eastern brown snake {Pseudonaja textilis} female in pre-strike posture, responsible for most fatal snake bites in Australia, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

Doug Wechsler / Foot swollen by edema due to allergic reaction to Leech bites, Philippines

Juergen Freund / Fisherman with hands full of Banded sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina) Philippines. Banded sea kraits are one of the ocean's most poisonous creatures, but bites are rare as they have small rounded mout...

Martin Dohrn / African driver / Siafu / Safari ant biting {Dorylus/ Anomma species). Species is non-stinging, but jaws can tear human flesh. East Africa. Blind

Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta laevigata) soldier bites photographer, carving through his skin in just the same way medium-sized workers bite leaves, near Sao Paulo, Brazil

Flip Nicklin / Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) showing evidence of cookie cutter shark bites, Hawaii

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Mustang (Equus caballus) reacts to insect bites by jumping sideways in distress, summer, Wyoming