Charlie Summers / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) mother standing grieving over stillborn baby. Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.

Alain Dragesco-Joffe / Toubou man, dead from thirst, partially covered in sand dune. Sahara, Niger, Tenere

Claudio Contreras / Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) cadaver, San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago Biosphere Reserve / Archipielago de Revillagigedo UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site (Socorro Islands), Pacific Oce...

Claudio Contreras / Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) decomposing body, San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago Biosphere Reserve / Archipielago de Revillagigedo UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site (Socorro Islands), Pa...

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...

David Tipling / Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) standing on the corpse of its mate, killed by Avian Influenza, Troup Head RSPB Reserve, Aberdeenshire, UK. August, 2022.

David Tipling / Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) standing next to the corpse of its mate, killed by Avian Influenza, Troup Head RSPB Reserve, Aberdeenshire, UK. September, 2022

Henley Spiers / Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) colony with several dead birds as a result of an outbreak of avian influenza (H5N1 or bird flu), Hermaness National Park, Shetland, UK, July 2022. The green fishing l...

Chris Gomersall / Corpse of dead Northern gannet (Morus bassanus), probable victim of avian influenza (bird flu). Braighe beach, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, UK. August 2022

Doug Gimesy / Collected remains of Gray-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) pups that died during cold weather event. Victoria, Australia.

Doug Gimesy / Collected remains of Gray-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) pups that died during cold weather event. Victoria, Australia.

Doug Wechsler / Hover Fly (Mallota bautias) feeding on carcass of nestling turkey vulture, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. June.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chick dead on sea ice, Atka Bay, Antarctica, August.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes fosteri) chick lying dead on the sea ice surrounding by snowdrift, Atka Bay, Antarctica, August.

Neil Aldridge / Ruppell's vultures (Gyps rueppellii) and white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) feeding on a carcass of a young wildebeest, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, September.

Neil Aldridge / Ruppell's vultures (Gyps rueppelli) and white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) feeding on a carcass of a young wildebeest, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, September. Both the Ruppell's vulture an...

Neil Aldridge / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) fighting while feeding at a carcass of a young wildebeest with Ruppell's vultures (Gyps rueppelli) and Marabou storks (Leptoptilos crumenifer), Maasai Mara Natio...

Neil Aldridge / Ruppell's vultures (Gyps rueppelli) and White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) feeding on a carcass of a young wildebeest, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, September. Both Ruppell's vulture and th...

Neil Aldridge / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) fighting while feeding on the carcass of a young wildebeest with Ruppell's vultures (Gyps rueppelli), Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, September. Both the Ru...

Neil Aldridge / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) fighting while feeding on the carcass of a young wildebeest with Ruppell's vultures (Gyps rueppelli), Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, September. Both the Ru...