Cyril Ruoso / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) hanging upside down, during translocation by Kenya Wildlife Service, due to over population, Mwaluganje Reserve, Kenya. October 2006.

Eric Baccega / Men from the Mursi tribe decoratively scaring skin, one man scars the arm of another one by lifting the skin with an acacia spine and cutting it with a razor blade, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Jiri Lochman / Bolas spider (Dicrostichus furcatus / Ordgarius furcatus) female with bolas, a blob of silk at end of line used to swing at prey, only used by females. Bolas spiders also produce pheromones of specifi...

Sven Zacek / Ravens (Corvus corax) fighting in bog during snowfall, Tartumaa, Estonia. December.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) rare white furred baby playing with flower, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) mother with rare white furred baby, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Isopod (Glyptonotus antarcticus) from Antarctic Ocean at a depth of 231m.

MYN / Corne van der Linden / Wolf spider (Venator immansueta) Perth, South-Western Australia.

MYN / Paul van Hoof / Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) female, The Netherlands, July. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Konrad Wothe / Jumping stick grasshopper (Apioscelis bulbosa) Panguana Reserve, Huanuco province, Amazon basin, Peru.

Danny Green / Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) in flight in snowfall, Lake Kussharo, Japan, February

Danny Green / Snow Monkey (Macaca fuscata) with snow covered paw in front of mouth, Nagano, Japan, February