Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) female 'Malui' walking through a cloud of butterflies she has disturbed in Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Repu...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) female 'Malui' walking through a cloud of butterflies she has disturbed in Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Repu...

Tom Struhsaker / Uganda Red Colobus Monkey (Procolobus rufomitratus tephrosceles) by stripped tree bark she is feeding on. Kanyawara, Kibale National Park, Uganda.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaeetus) in flight, fishing at dawn, Rothiemurchus forest, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, July. Photographer quote: ""This female, caught at first light, has two hungry chicks waiting...

Diane McAllister / Female Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ewe (Ovis canadensis canadensis) warning her newborn lamb that a rocky ledge is too close and dangerous. She places her front hoof on the baby's back, stopping it f...

Diane McAllister / Coastal Brown bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) female and her cub standing in the long grass. She is looking warily at an approaching boar. Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA, July

Juergen Freund / Anthea Melsen smiles shyly as she comes out of the water after looking at her grandfather's coral and clam gardens, Onma Lodge, Kolombangara, Western Province, Solomon Islands, July 2010

Anup Shah / African Lioness (Panthera leo) dragging the carcass of a giraffe she has just killed, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. February

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Pair of Common hermit crabs (Pagurus bernhardus) male carrying female until she leaves her shell and they can mate, Trondheimsfjorden, Norway, February 2009

Jerry Monkman / A young girl showing off the Blueberries she picked on a hilltop in Alton, New Hampshire, USA. Model Released. July 2008

Suzi Eszterhas / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla berengei) infant sitting on mothers head while she feeds on vegetation, Virunga Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

Kim Taylor / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen surrounded by workers as she lays an egg in a cell at the edge of the comb, UK