Anup Shah / Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) herd moving up the river bank, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. August

Christophe Courteau / Jaguar (Panthera onca palustris) wild male, on the bank of the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, September 2008 This individual is called Jack.

Pete Oxford / Cane Toad (Bufo marinus) on riverbank, Essequibo River, Iwokrama Rainforest Reserve, Guyana

Mark Carwardine / Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) family group on river bank, Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary, Swaziland, Endangered / threatened species

Solvin Zankl / Immediately after hatching from their aquatic larval skin the subadult male Long-tailed / Tisza mayfly(Palingania longicauda) flies towards the river bank to land on a leaf. Here it will undergo its l...

Solvin Zankl / Immediately after hatching from their aquatic larval skin the subadult male Long-tailed / Tisza mayfly (Palingania longicauda) flies towards the river bank to land on a leaf. Here it will undergo its...

Wild Wonders of Europe / della Ferrera / Neretva river delta, with Harestail grass (Lagurus ovatus) in the foreground, Mediterranean cypresses (Cupressus sempervirens) on the far bank, Galicak area, Dalmatia region, Croatia, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Presti / Trees on the river bank reflected in water, Danube Delta Scenery, Romania, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Radisics / River Tara with autumnal vegetation on bank, Durmitor NP, Montenegro, October 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Ruiz / Ferns growing on the Krinice River bank, Kyov, Ceske Svycarsko / Bohemian Switzerland National Park, Czech Republic, September 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Zacek / Whirlpool with ice in water, small hut on bank, Kitkajoki River, Oulanka National Park, Finland, February 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Schandy / Black veined white butterflies (Aporia crataegi) on the bank of the Arkhyz River, Arkhyz valley in the western part of the Teberdinsky Biosphere reserve, Caucasus, Russia, July 2008