Niall Benvie / People in a hide using binoculars to watch for Eurasian Beavers (Castor fiber) at a re-introduction site, Aigas, Scotland UK

Rupert Barrington / People watch and bet on Rhinoceros beetle fight (Oryctes) Chang Mai, Thailand

George McCarthy / Bear (Ursus arctos) standing on hind legs to watch another bear approaching, Alaska, USA

Flip Nicklin / Orca (Orcinus orca) surfacing in front of whale watch boat, southeast Alaska

Ingo Arndt / Dogon natives watch approaching sandstorm, Mali, west Africa

Suzi Eszterhas / Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) 6-8 month old cubs and mother watch other bear, Katmai National Park, Alaska

Tom Vezo / American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) pair performing courtship display while two other adults watch, South Padre Island, Texas

Mark Raycroft / White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) buck bedded on high point in forest to watch for predators

Flip Nicklin / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) researchers aboard the Balaena watch surfacing whales, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Pete Cairns / Visitors at RSPB's Loch Garten Capercaillie Watch in spring queueing to access hide, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK 2006

Martin Dohrn / Quechua people watch traditional wedding ceremony, Bolivia

Martin Dohrn / Quechua girls watch wedding ceremony, Bolivia

Steven David Miller / Tourists watch wild Bottlenose dolphin {Tursiops truncatus}, Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, Western Australia

Pete Oxford / Tourists watch four African lions {Panthera leo} cross marshland, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Pete Oxford / Tourists watch African lioness (Panthera leo) feeding on buffalo carcass, Okavango delta, Botswana

Pete Oxford / Tourists using monoscope to watch birdlife from canopy observation tower, Tiputini biodiversity research, Yasuni NP, Ecuador

Angela Scott / Leopard on watch {Panthera pardus} Masai Mara NR, Kenya

Julia Bayne / Holy man / saddhu wearing modern watch, age 40, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India

TOM MANGELSEN / Brown bear {Ursus arctos} mother and cubs watch for fish by McNeil River, Alaska, USA

Pete Oxford / Children watch fish at Two Ocean's Aquarium, Cape Town, South Africa.

Karl Ammann / Family watch as crocodile lies tied and helpless ready for the market, for sale as bushmeat, Central Africa. Crocodiles are transported alive, often for weeks without food or water, and sold fresh in...

Jane Burton / Domestic Cat, two Turkish van kittens watch and try to catch goldfish in garden pond

Pete Oxford / Tourists watch African elephants play on road {Loxodonta africana} Addo Elephant Park, South Africa

Anup Shah / Safari tourists watch migrating Wildebeest crossing river, Masai Mara reserve, Kenya

Staffan Widstrand / Bjprm Dahle in hide built to watch European brown bear. Orsa Finmark, Dalarna, Sweden.

Adam White / Tourists watch Bottlenose dolphin {Tursiops truncatus} Bay of Islands, North Is, New Zealand

Justine Evans / Tourists watch volcano eruption, Mount Yasur, Tanna, Vanuatu

Toby Sinclair / Tourists on Elephant safari watch Indian rhinoceros, Kaziranga NP, Assam, India

Karl Ammann / Mother and child watch African elephant over protective fence, Laikipia, Kenya

Steven David Miller / Tourists watch American alligator walking to water, Florida, USA

David Kjaer / Tourists stop to watch grazing Bison {Bison bison} Yellowstone National Park, USA

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Tourists watch a White rhinoceros {Ceratotherium simum} Lapala WR, S Africa

Martin Dohrn / Dale Morris and Ralph Bower watch and film a column of African driver / Siafu (Safari} ants {Dorylus / Anomma species} crossing road. Tanzania, East Africa. 2002

Mark Moffett / Sign warning drivers to watch for rare endangered Dung Beetles on road, South Africa

Jeff Rotman / Divers watch shark handler feed Caribbean reef sharks {Carcharhinus perezi} Bahamas Model released.

Michael Hutchinson / People watching Strokkur geyser erupting, Geysir, Iceland

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) nine day old infant being bottle-fed by Wei Ming while tourists watch through window at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolong Natu...

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) infant being cared for by Hu Hai Ping while tourists watch through window at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolong Nature Reserve,...

Pete Oxford / Chagra cowboy sorting cattle at a hacienda during the annual round-up, one chagra is charged by a bull while his friends watch, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Konrad Wothe / Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) herd foraging in the forest while male keeps watch, Germany

Fred Bavendam / Metallic Shrimp-goby (Amblyeleotris latifasciata) keeping watch while a Snapping Shrimp (Alpheus sp) works on their shared burrow, Bali, Indonesia

Mark Moffett / Stag Fly (Phytalmia cervicornis) female lays her eggs as the male keeps watch, Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Tourists watch West Indian manatee {Trichechus manatus} in marine aquarium, USA, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Juergen Freund / Tourists watch West Indian manatee {Trichechus manatus} in marine aquarium, USA, captive, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY

TOM MANGELSEN / Brown bear {Ursus arctos} mother & cubs watch for fish by McNeil River, Alaska

Hermann Brehm / Female elk (Cervus elaphus) watch with concern as calf struggles in high water, Yellowstone River, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming, USA

Pete Oxford / People watch thermal vents, Valley of geysers, Kamchatka, Russia

Pete Oxford / Tourists watch Crabeater seal {Lobodon carcinophagus} Antarctica

Marguerite Smits Van Oyen / Meerkats on alert watch {Suricata suricatta} Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa

TOM WALMSLEY / Tourists watch Common dolphins {Delphinus delphis} Gibralter

TOM WALMSLEY / Researchers watch Hectors dolphins {Cephalorhynchus hectori} Akaroa, New Zealand

TOM WALMSLEY / Tourists watch Dusky dolphins from boat. Kaikoura, New Zealand {Lagenorhynchus obscurus}

Juergen Freund / Bajau fisherman dives underwater to spear fish, children watch from traditional canoe, Pulau Gaya, Borneo, Malaysia

SIMON KING / Meerkat standing on hind legs on watch {Suricata suricatta} South Africa

DOC WHITE / Boy and girl watch Beluga whales {Delphinapterus leucas} at Mystic Aquarium, Connecticut, USA. Model released

Juergen Freund / Whale watchers watching Humpback whale breaching {Megaptera novaeangliae} Hervey Bay, Australia

Juergen Freund / Tourists watch Whale shark from boat {Rhincodon typus} Donsol, Philippines 2002

Marguerite Smits Van Oyen / Alert Meerkat on watch duty {Suricata suricatta} Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa

Neil Aldridge / A group of meerkats (Suricata suricatta) or suricates, stand on an old termite mound to gain extra height and watch for predators in their territory on the edge of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Bot...

Paul D Stewart / 'The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation' by John Ray, the ninth edition of 1727. In this book Ray developed Natural Theology for an English audience. He argues that the proof of God is...

Onne van der Wal / Steadfast of Watch Hill at the Newport Wooden Boat Show, Rhode Island.

Onne van der Wal / Bow watch at sunset on Schooner "Gazella" off Long Island, NY

Onne van der Wal / The Watch Hill Yacht Club has been on Little Narragansett Bay since 1913. Rhode Island, USA, 1996.

Onne van der Wal / Children watch the shore from the stern of a cruising yacht, Rhode Island.

Onne van der Wal / Schooner sailing past Watch Hill Lighthouse, on Watch Hill Point south of Westerly, at the entrance to Fisher's Island Sound, Rhode Island, USA.

Rick Tomlinson / Crowds watch "Alinghi" leaving the harbour during the Millennium Cup Superyacht Regatta, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2003.

Rick Tomlinson / Locals watch as a cruising catamaran is wrecked on the beach in Carriacou, Grenadines, Caribbean.

Rick Tomlinson / Passengers aboard the cruise liner "Oriana" watch the Fastnet fleet start their race for the 608 miles ahead, 1999.

Rick Tomlinson / Night watch aboard BT Global Challenge yacht "Courtaulds International", 1996.

Rick Tomlinson / Night watch aboard "The Card", Whitbread Round the World Race 1989-90.

Rick Tomlinson / Night watch aboard BT Global Challenge yacht "Courtaulds", 1996.

Onne van der Wal / Crew member on board "Gazela" looking through binoculars, on watch at the Tall Ship event Sail New York to Boston, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Early morning watch aboard "Westri", offshore Maine, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Crew member aboard "Shaman" wearing warm clothes as he stands watch near Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, 1998.

Onne van der Wal / On watch during a purple sunrise with the autopilot in charge.

Onne van der Wal / Tim Laughridge relaxing on Farr 60 "Rima" while on watch during the Newport Bermuda race, 1998.

Onne van der Wal / On the layline to the weather mark, the bowman prepares the spinnaker as the crew watch the mark, Key West Race week, Florida, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Young woman drinking morning coffee while on watch aboard a cruising yacht from Bermuda to Newport.

Onne van der Wal / Yachts moored in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Tenders moored in the foreground, as crowds watch from the New York Yacht Club's (NYYC) clubhouse, Harbour Court, on Newport Harbour, Rhode Island.

Onne van der Wal / Boats moored in Watch Hill Harbor in the summertime, near Nappatree Point, Rhode Island, USA.

Ernie Janes / Track leading to The Watch House, Blakeney Point, Norfolk, UK, November 2008

Tui De Roy / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) group resting with one keeping watch, Mpala Research Centre, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / Adelie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) diving off iceberg into icy water as others watch, Paulet Island, Antarctica

Pete Oxford / Two Buddhist monks looking at a watch, Dzongchung temple, Punakha dzong, Punakha, Bhutan.

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) infant being cared for by Hu Hai Ping while tourists watch through window at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolong Nature Reserve,...

Michio Hoshino / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) females fighting while cubs watch, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

Mitsuaki Iwago / Domestic Cat (Felis catus) group at the fishing dock watch as fishermen feed a pelican, Mediterranean Sea, Europe

Martin Gabriel / Tourists watch Bottlenosed dolphins in shallows. Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, Western Australia.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Visitors watch Pygmy hippopotamus in zoo (Choeropsis liberiensis) Whipsnade Zoo UK

Marguerite Smits Van Oyen / Meerkat family on alert watch {Suricata suricatta} Tswalu Kalahari Reserve South Africa

SIMON KING / Meerkat family on guard at burrow {Suricata suricatta} Tswali Kalahari R South Africa

SIMON KING / Meerkat looking up to sky {Suricata suricatta} Tswalu Kalahari Reserve South Africa

John Cancalosi / Children watch bird being ringed UK

Juergen Freund / People watch young Harp seal on ice (Phoca groenlandicus) Madgalen Is Canada

SIMON KING / Meerkat family on alert guard {Suricata suricatta} Tswali Kalahari R South Africa