Jabruson / Long-tailed Pangolin (Uromanis tetradactyla) unfurling itself from protective posture, Lokoue Bai. Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Juergen Freund / Flexible Leather Coral (Sinularia flexibilis) spawning during the annual mass coral spawning event, in November, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

Mark Bowler,Mark Bowler / Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus) male with tusks grooming, captive, Midlothian deer enclosure, UK, vulnerable species

Ashley Cooper / Flexible utility pipes taking the water and electric into flating houses houses. IJurb, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 2013.

Chris Mattison / Cape house snake (Boadedon capensis) eating mouse, showing flexible jaws and throat. Captive from South Africa.

Mary McDonald / Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) female standing on hind legs and feeding from a high branch, Samburu Game Reserve, Kenya. October.

Edwin Giesbers / Close-up of the front paws of a European Lynx (Lynx lynx) showing the large gap between toes that allows it to move easily in heavy snow, captive, Norway, February.

Loic Poidevin / Short eared owl (Asio flammeus) tilting head upside down and backwards, Breton Marsh, West France, June

Tui De Roy / Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) looking at each other, one over its very flexible back, on beach. Endangered. Seymour Island, Galapagos, Ecuador, June.

Nick Upton / Tangleweed kelp (Laminaria digitata) fronds attached to rocks by flexible stems exposed on a low spring tide alongside Toothed wrack (Fucus serratus), North Berwick, East Lothian, UK, July

Nick Upton / Dense bed of Tangleweed kelp (Laminaria digitata) exposed on a low spring tide with flexible stems attached to rocks by large spreading holdfasts, Crail, Fife, UK, July

Alex Hyde / Tanzanian giant tailless whipscorpion (Damon variegatus) photographed on a white background. The highly flexible pair of whip-like legs are used to feel for prey and to detect the whipscorpion's sur...