Sandesh Kadur / Fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana) female in front of Chalkewadi, Maharashtra, India.

Sandesh Kadur / Fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana) male displaying. Chalkewadi, Maharashtra, India.

Sandesh Kadur / Fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana) male displaying. Chalkewadi, Maharashtra, India.

Sandesh Kadur / Fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana) male displaying. Chalkewadi, Maharashtra, India.

Sandesh Kadur / Fan-throated lizard (Sitana ponticeriana) male displaying. Chalkewadi, Maharashtra, India.

Tony Wu / Japanese black carpenter ant (Camponotus japonicus) minor workers tending to scale insects (Superfamily Coccoidea). The ant is eating honeydew secreted by the scale insects. Kanagawa, Japan.

Emanuele Biggi / Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) two minor workers with major worker, minor workers removing a dead major worker out of the nest. Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

Emanuele Biggi / Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) major and minor workers, Malaysian Borneo.

Gerrit Vyn / Black-faced Spoonbills (Platalea minor). Incheon, South Korea. October. Critically endangered

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Lesser Bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea minor) male calling, Singapore Zoo, Singapore

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) in flight, Oman, January

Aflo / Japanese tit (Parus minor) feeding on Japanese rowan (Sorus commixta) in snow, Yatsugatake, Japan, February.