Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Famadihana, traditional funeral ceremony of the Merina and Betsileo ethnic groups where the dead are exhumed every seven years, a joyous festival with dancing and musicians. Antsirabe, Madagascar, Feb...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Famadihana, traditional funeral ceremony of the Merina and Betsileo ethnic groups where the dead are exhumed every seven years, a joyous festival with dancing and musicians. Antsirabe, Madagascar, Feb...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Famadihana, traditional funeral ceremony of the Merina and Betsileo ethnic groups where the dead are exhumed every seven years, a joyous festival with dancing and musicians. Antsirabe, Madagascar, Feb...

Gerrit Vyn / The corpses of dead Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) lie on ice outside of Aegolus Cave, Starving bats infected with white-nose syndrome often exit their hiberncula during winter where they quickl...

Nick Garbutt / Corpses of Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) discarded by Black Bears and left in forest on Princess Royal Island, great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada.

Niall Benvie / European mole corpses {Talpa europaea} hanging on barbed wire, Glen Clova, Angus, Scotland

Mark Moffett / Ant (Allomerus sp) group dismember corpses of their enemies within the hollow branches of Cordia (Cordia nodosa) host tree, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Allomerus sp) group dismember corpses of their enemies within the hollow branches of Cordia (Cordia nodosa) host tree, Peru

Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Apterostigma sp) in fungus garden, these ants use insect droppings and corpses as a base for their fungus gardens which often grown in sheets, Belize

Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Apterostigma sp,) in fungus garden, these ants use insect droppings and corpses as a base for their fungus gardens which often grown in sheets, Belize

Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Apterostigma sp,) in fungus garden, these ants use insect droppings and corpses as a base for their fungus gardens which often grown in sheets, Belize

Onne van der Wal / Old corpse of an antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) lying upside down on the shore, South Georgia.