Anup Shah / Lion (Panthera leo) male approaching, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with remote wide angle camera.

Eric Baccega / Icebergs and glacier under clear blue sky, Croker Bay, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada, August 2010

Tony Wu / Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) hovering above the ocean, Svalbard, Norway June

David Kjaer / Common toad (Bufo bufo) pair in amplexus, Deeside, Scotland April

Anup Shah / Impala (Aepyceros melampus) four males silhouetted at sunrise, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Franco Banfi / Killer whale (Orcinus orca) adult male surfacing at dusk, Andenes, Andoya island, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway, January

Eric Baccega / Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) herd migrating in spring at dusk under moon. Yar-Sale district, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia. April.

Pal Hermansen / Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) stretching with oil drums at Eureka Settlement, Nunavut, Canada, August.

Ann & Steve Toon / Pincushion protea (Leucospermum cordifolium), Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / White pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) flying against clear skies with the moon, Danube Delta, Romania, June.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / White pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) flying against clear skies with the moon, Danube Delta, Romania, June.

Jussi Murtosaari / Long-tailed Ducks (Clangula hyemalis) and Common Scoters (Melanitta nigra) migrating, Kymenlaakso, southern Finland, May.