Edwin Giesbers / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) twin babies age 45 days resting on mother's chest, one suckling. captive, occurs in Central Africa. Critically endangered.

Cyril Ruoso / Keeper feeding Common woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha) in Ikamaperou Sanctuary, Amazon, Peru. October 2006.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) mother carrying rare white furred baby on belly, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Cyril Ruoso / Volunteer feeding young Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Pandrillus Sanctury Rehabilitation Centre, Nigeria.

David Tipling / Looking down on the vast King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia.

David Tipling / View down on the vast King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia.

Ashley Cooper / Flaring off gas at The Ineos oil refinery at Grangemouth in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, UK. October 2010.

Cyril Ruoso / Surrogate mothers feeding young Bonobo (Pan paniscus) orphans, Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Alex Mustard / Amphipod (Amphipoda) living inside sea squirt (Rhopalaea sp.) Anilao, Batangas, Luzon, Philippines. Verde Island Passages, Tropical West Pacific Ocean.

Julian Hume / Illustration of nesting seabirds and other species,Ile Fregate,Rodrigues. Dugongs (Dugong dugon) (endangered/threatened species) once thrived in lagoons on Ile Fregate,while seabirds breed in huge num...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Rodrigues high-backed carosse tortoise (Cylindraspis vosmaeri ) - extinct 1795 - (left); Rodrigues domed tortoise (Cylindraspis peltastes) - extinct 1795 - (centre). Leguat's rails (Er...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Tafforet's lizard-owl / Leguat's owl / Rodriguez little owl (Mascarenotus murivorus) - extinct 1761 - pouncing on giant night gecko (Nactus sp.) (centre bottom),the largest of the Masc...