Pete Oxford / Tea picker, collecting Tea leaves (Camelia sinensis) wearing large straw hat, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis) school porpoising, False Bay, South Africa

Espen Bergersen / European elk / Moose (Alces alces) photograped in midnight sun. Troms, Northern Norway. June

Frederique Olivier / Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) travelling to the ice edge to feed, Antarctica.

Peter Cairns / Bison (Bison bison) standing in geothermal run-off in winter, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, February.

Bruno D'Amicis / Apennine chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata) females in snowy mountain habitat. Endemic to the Apennine mountains. Abruzzo, Italy, November.

Roger Powell / Little owl (Athene noctua) perched on a fence post, stretching its wings, Castro Verde, Alentejo, Portugal, April.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Common dolphin (Dephinus delphis) feeding on sardines (Sardinops oecllata) East London, South Africa.

Denis-Huot,Denis-Huot / Ostrich (Struthio camelus) female and male with chicks, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Staffan Widstrand,Staffan Widstrand / Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) Pulicat Lake, Tamil Nadu, India, February 2013.

Tom Struhsaker / Sanje Mangabey Monkey (Cercocebus galeritus sanjei) selecting leaves to feed on. Mizimu area, Sonjo Valley, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. Endangered species

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) in arctic ice landscape backlit by midnight sun. Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, August.