Edwin Giesbers / Female Orang Utan (Pongo pygmaeus) sitting, holding two young. One is her own offspring, the other was rejected by its birth mother, and so this female has adopted it. Both young are 3 months old.Capt...

Anup Shah / Nile crocodile holding newly hatched young in mouth {Crocodylus niloticus} Kenya

Shane Gross / Pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti) holding on to a branch of a sea fan coral. Malapascua, Philippines.

Jen Guyton / Park ranger holding a Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), after rescuing it from poachers. This individual was later released back into the wild. Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Mary McDonald / Adult Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) holding baby, Hirwa group, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

Marie Read / Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) holding an acorn in its bill whilst perched on tree stump, with autumn foliage, New York, USA, October.

Juergen Freund / Wildlife carer Margit Cianelli holding Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) orphan, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. Model released.

Piotr Naskrecki / Longhorn Beetle (Tithoes confinis) on hand, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Piotr Naskrecki / Grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata) on hand, Costa Rica

Suzi Eszterhas / Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) rehabilitator, Isabel Luevano, with one day old orphan duckling, International Bird Rescue, Fairfield, California

David Fleetham / Hawaiian pom-pom / boxer crab (Lybia edmondsoni)with anemones (Triactis sp) that it carries around holding with the claws and using them for defense, waving in front of the possible aggressor. An exam...

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) five year old juvenile male named Fanwwaa holding leaf sitting along path, Bossou, Guinea