Gary K. Smith / Maintenance barge with crane and replacement mooring posts, Venice, Italy.
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Gary K. Smith / Boat repair yard, Venice, Italy, April.
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Tony Wu / Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) shed and slough off skin continuously, perhaps as a mechanism for maintaining healthy skin and shedding parasites. This is a large piece of skin that came off an...
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Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Man repairing nets, Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. July 2010.
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Alex Mustard / Common reef / day octopuses (Octopus cyanea) courting. The male, on the right, is rearing up and showing his mouth and tentacles, while still maintaining contact with the female. This is a rarely seen...
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Nick Garbutt / Stingless Bees (Trigona sp., Apidae: Meliponini) maintaining the entrance to their nest. Lowland rainforest, Maliau Basin, Sabah's 'Lost World', Borneo.
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Juergen Freund / Man checking and maintaining the lines in his seaweed farm. Plastic water bottles act as floats. Malaysia, June 2009.
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Juergen Freund / Seaweed farmer maintaining his seaweed farm. Small family farms are successful as farmers work hard to protect their crops from grazing fish, feeding turtles and sea urchins, and bacterial infections...
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Kim Taylor / Phantom Midge (Chaoborus crystallinus) larva hangs motionless in the water with the aid of air bubbles fore and aft, maintaining its body in the horizontal position. Surrey, UK
