Alex Mustard,Alex Mustard / A diver and a hydrothermal chimney. Note that he is obscured by the different temperature waters (from the chimney and the surrounding water) which are unable to mix. The sea water was 4 degrees Celsi...

Alex Mustard,Alex Mustard / A portrait of a small Candy stripe shrimp (Lebbeus grandimanus) in front of its host pink anemone (out of focus because of the magnification). Browning Wall, Browning Pass, Port Hardy, Vancouver Islan...

Jack Dykinga / Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) landing in icy pond filled with snow geese (Chen caerulescens) Bosque del Apache, New Mexico. January 2013

Ben Cranke,Ben Cranke / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscatata) juvenile, reaching out to touch the camera, Jigokudani, Nagano Prefecture, Honshu, Japan

Denis-Huot / Grant's zebra (Equus burchelli boehmi) in a migration herd of wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Small group of flowering Wild daffodils (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), with out of focus flowers in the background, Dunsdon Wood Devon Wildlife Trust Reserve, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England, UK,...

Sven Zacek / Herd of Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) on the horizon with another out-of-focus in foreground. Virumaa, Estonia, Europe, February.

Fabrice Cahez / Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) resting on straw bale in field. Vosges, France, July.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) leaping out of the water. False Bay, South Africa, July 2010

Dietmar Nill / Wild boar (Sus scrofa) beside busstop in town, South Germany

Wild Wonders of Europe / Hermansen / Common guillemot (Uria aalge) bridled form and an out of focus Razorbill (Alca torda) Saltee Islands, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, June 2009

Nick Garbutt / Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), two males, equally matched with mouths open in aggression. Out of focus King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony in background. Gold Harbour, South Geor...