Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Black-spot Goatfish (Parupeneus signatus) and Goldlined Seabream (Rhabdosargus sarba) school, Solitary Islands Marine Park, New South Wales, Australia

Francisco Marquez / Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) flock silhouetted in wetland, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Nick Hawkins / Head of a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) showing callosities, patches of roughened skin that are unique to each whale. Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada. IUCN Status: Endangered. August

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) using freshwater pools along the shore line and in the adjacent fields as place to learn to swim, Orkney, Scotland, UK, April.

Ingo Arndt / Cape Gannet (Sula capensis) perched on a rock whilst calling, nesting colony, Lamberts Bay, South Africa.

Floris van Breugel / Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) over winter on Eucalyptus and Monterey Cypress trees near Pismo Beach, San Luis, California, USA December.. When temperatures warm up enough, they will embark on...

Stefan Christmann / Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) huddling with chicks for warmth, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

Hiroya Minakuchi / Wattled Crane (Bugeranus carunculatus) flock flying, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Mark Raycroft / Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) rams in a line with one standing out front, North America

Juergen Freund / Yellow-ribbon sweetlips (Plectorhinchus polytaenia) surrounded by dense shoal of glassy sweepers (Pempheris schomburgki). North Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

MORLEY READ / Spiny katydid / Bush cricket {Tettigonoidae} portrait, Ecuador

MORLEY READ / Spiny katydid / Bush cricket {Tettigonoidae} portrait, Ecuador