Marie Read / Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) (Florida race), adult with two small chicks crossing highway, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, March.

Ingo Arndt / Southern plains grey / Hanuman langur {Semnopithecus dussumieri} mother and baby, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Cyril Ruoso / Woman with baby collecting Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) flowers and leaves, used in herbal medicine, and containing molecules which are used in the treatment of leukemia cancer. Berenty...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Dassanech baby with her headdress made from bottlecaps, Lower Omo Valley. Ethiopia, November 2014

Cyril Ruoso / Surrogate mother holding orphan Bonobo (Pan paniscus) and her own baby Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Florian Möllers / White stork (Ciconia ciconia) adult portrait, captive, Vogelpark Marlow, Germany, May.

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) baby playing with keeper, Pandrillus Drill Sanctuary, Nigeria

Denis-Huot,Denis-Huot / Lion (Panthera leo) male playing with a newborn topi before killing it (Damaliscus korrigum) Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. Vulnerable species.

Ann & Steve Toon / Baby African elephants (Loxodonta africana) of various ages playing together, Addo national park, Eastern Cape, South Africa, January. Did you know? Elephants can tell the difference between different...

Mark Bowler / Sustainable river fishing for Silver Arowana / Arahuana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) for the tropical fish trade - baby Arowana fish fry are harvested from the adult male (this species is a mouth broode...

Suzi Eszterhas / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) three to four month old cub peeking over mother's body while she is tranquilized by researchers, vulnerable, Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada

Sue Flood / Doug Allan filming Humpback whale mother and calf (Megaptera novaeangliae), Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific, for Planet Earth, Sept 2005.