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...

Guy Edwardes / Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Naja mossambica) ejecting venom Kruger, South Africa, Controlled conditions.

Alex Mustard / A large colony of Mountainous star coral (Montastraea faveolata) spawning at night on a coral reef, showing the synchronous release of bundles of eggs and sperm, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands...

Alex Mustard / Mountainous star coral (Montastraea faveolata) spawning at night on a coral reef, showing the synchronous release of bundles of eggs and sperm, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Ind...

Mark MacEwen / Broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) baby in mothers mouth being carried from nest, Sante Fe, Argentina, February

Anup Shah / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) group watching with curiosity, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) in shallow water gathering very close to shore, Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies or bubs wrapped in cloth in the nursery at Tolga Bat Hospital, North Queensland, Australia, November 2012

Jabruson / Mozambican children with captive Yellow Baboon youngster (Papio cynocephalus). Young animal caught during troop crop raiding. Pemba to Montepuez highway, north-eastern Mozambique, November 2011. Wildl...

Jordi Chias / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) trapped in a drifting abandoned net, Mediterranean Sea. (Winner of the One Earth Award, WPY Competition 2010 )

Doc White / Blue Whales (Balaenoptera musculus) throat inflated, filter feeding at sea surface. California, USA. Sequence 1 of 2.

Andy Rouse / Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) silhouetted by beams of light from setting sun, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Winner of the African section of the Natures Best Windland Smith Rice...

Nick Garbutt / Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) flock flying in front of clay lick. Heath River, Tambopata / Bahuaja-Sonene Reserves, Amazonia, Peru / Bolivia border.

Mark Taylor / Green-winged Macaws (Ara chloroptera) mating, Brazil. South America.

Lucas Bustamante / Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) and Red and green macaws (Ara chloroptera) at clay lick close to the Tambopata river. Tambopata Reserve, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Wim van den Heever / Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) group of three in flight, Pantanal, Brazil. August.

Wim van den Heever / Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) in flight, Pantanal, Brazil. August.

Bence Mate / Red and green macaws (Ara chloropterus) in flight, motion blurred photograph, Buraxo das aras, Brazil.

Nick Garbutt / Group of Red-and-Green Macaws or Green-winged Macaws (Ara chloropterus) in flight over forest canopy. Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil.

Hermann Brehm / Red-and-Green Macaw (Ara chloropterus), Mato Grosso do sul, Brazil

Stephen Dalton / Green-winged macaw (Ara chloroptera) in flight, controlled conditions, from South America

Juan Carlos Munoz / Green winged macaw (Ara chloroptera) pair flying, Chapada dos Guimaraes, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Green winged / Red and green macaws {Ara chloroptera} pair, Mato Grosso, Brazil