Anup Shah / Topi female (Damaliscus lunatus jimela) with her new-born calf, eating the placenta after it has been delivered. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, October 2009
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Anup Shah / Topi female (Damaliscus lunatus jimela) with her new-born calf, delivering the placenta. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, October 2009
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Anup Shah / Topi female (Damaliscus lunatus jimela) with her new-born calf, starting to deliver the placenta. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, October 2009
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Pete Oxford / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) female giving birth to pup, on sandly shore, with Sheathbill scavenging afterbirth, Sea Lion Island. South of mainland east Falkland Island. Falkland Islands
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Sue Daly / Goose foot starfish (Anseropoda placenta) on seabed, Channel Isles, UK, July
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Jeff Rotman / Premature Great blue shark (Prionace glauca) with yolk sac placenta, New England, USA
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Jane Burton / British show pony mare giving birth, mare and foal sniff nostrils while waiting for the placenta to come away, UK, sequence 8/26
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Jane Burton / British show pony mare giving birth, mare and foal sniff nostrils while waiting for the placenta to come away, UK, sequence 9/26
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Jane Burton / British show pony mare giving birth, mare sniffing her foal while waiting for the placenta to come away, UK, sequence 10/26
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Jane Burton / British show pony mare giving birth, mare sniffing her foal while waiting for the placenta to come away, UK, sequence 11/26
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Jane Burton / British show pony mare giving birth, mare sniffing her foal while waiting for the placenta to come away, UK, sequence 12/26
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Constantinos Petrinos / Sea star {Peltaster placenta} Greece
