Phil Savoie / Point-to-Point horse racing, low angle view of racehorse jumping fence, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. March 2014.

David Tipling / Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) adult swallowing leg bone along with hoof, Spanish Pyrenees, July. This bird swallowed five of these leg bones whole, they have the ability to dissolve the bone in...

MYN / Paul van Hoof / Common spadefoot toad (Pelobates fuscus) composite showing metamorphosis from larva to adult, The Netherlands, meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Paul van Hoof / Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) female, The Netherlands, July. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Anup Shah / Eastern white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) herd running. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with remote wide angle camera.

Diane McAllister / Female Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ewe (Ovis canadensis canadensis) warning her newborn lamb that a rocky ledge is too close and dangerous. She places her front hoof on the baby's back, stopping it f...

Eric Dragesco / A male Markhor (Capra falconeri) traversing a rock face, following hoof marks cut into the cliff. Tajikistan, Central Asia, November.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Wothe / Horse's hoof / Tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius) on tree trunk, European beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest, Stuzica primeval Forest, Unesco World Heritage Site, Poloniny National Park, Western Carpathian...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Wothe / Horse's hoof / Tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius) growing on dead tree, Morske Oko Reserve, Vihorlat Mountains, Western Carpathians, Eastern Slovakia, Europe, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Elander / Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) carrying hoof in its beak, Serra de Beumort, Gerri de la Sal, Catalonia, Spain, November 2008

Norbert Wu / Small-toothed Rock Hyrax (Heterohyrax brucei) group lounging around pool at Mara Serena lodge, closest living relative of the Elephant, feet possess hoof-like nails, Kenya

Eric Baccega / Rhodesian / Thornicroft giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti), close up of hoof, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia