David Pattyn / Common brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus) portrait, Anjajavy Private Reserve, north west Madagascar.

Edwin Giesbers / Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) babies hand holding onto adults fur. Gibraltar Nature Reserve, Gibraltar

Joris van Alphen / Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus) preparing to land at her nest, clasping a songbird. Viewed from below. Groningen, the Netherlands. July.

Juergen Freund / Mating Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the reef shallows. Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia, June

Oliver Wright / Blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura elegans) resting on stem, legs clasping stem, covered in early morning dew. Skipwith Common National Nature Reserve, North Yorkshire, England, UK. May. Focus stacked im...

Cyril Ruoso / Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) climbing tree in rainforest. Berenty Reserve, Madagascar.

Suzi Eszterhas / Cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus), adult carrying two week old twin babies on back. Northern Colombia.

Lorraine Bennery / Blue-eyed lemur (Eulemur flavifrons) female climbing tree. Sahamalaza, Madagascar.

Christophe Courteau / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) juvenile, close-up of hand holding onto Eucalyptus tree. Outside of Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

Steven David Miller / Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) feeding on Spider flower (Grevillea sp) seed pods whilst perched. Lane Cove National Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Sandesh Kadur / Bamboo lemur (Hapalmur griseus) in tree. Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Central Yunnan black crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor jingdongensis), mother and baby sitting in tree. Wuliangshan Nature Reserve, Jingdong, Yunnan Province, China.