Paul Hobson / Resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) male perched on branch. Costa Rica.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to Purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.
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Pascal Kobeh / Long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) with prehensile tail twined round seagrass, Etang de Thau Lagoons, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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Joris van Alphen / Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus) preparing to land at her nest, clasping a songbird. Viewed from below. Groningen, the Netherlands. July.
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Richard Du Toit / Longtailed widowbird (Eupletes progne) male perched in flowers, Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa.
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Dong Lei / Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China.
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Chris & Monique Fallows / Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) tail, Cape Point, South Africa.
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Markus Varesvuo,Markus Varesvuo / Male Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis), Batsfjord, Norway, March.
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Aflo / ic-07203 Japanese red fox cub biting mother's tail (Kitsune) {Vulpes vulpes japonica} Japan
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Patricio Robles Gil / Resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) male at entrance to nest hole in tree, showing very long tail feathers, cloud forest El Triunfo biosphere reserve, Sierra Madre del Sur, Chiapas, Mexico
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Pete Oxford / Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) one of the more bizarre mammals in the world, their peculiar features include huge ears, bushy tail, long shaggy coast, rodent-like teeth and a skeletal 'probe-l...
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Solvin Zankl / Seeds of Water avens (Geum rivale), Europe. Water aven seeds have numerous hairs, which enable dispersal by wind, as well as a long hooked tail formed by the style, which readily attaches to mammal fu...
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Pete Oxford / Long haired / White bellied spider monkey hanging in tree by tail {Ateles belzebuth} Manu NP,
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Ann & Steve Toon / Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer), Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) worker flying to Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum), on Purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea), Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) female flying to Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. March
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Ingo Arndt / Booted racket-tail hummingbird (Ocreatus underwoodii) male flying below flower. Western slope of Andes, Ecuador. October.
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Juan Carlos Munoz / Albacore / Longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga) caught fish, tails on ice. Santona, Cantabria, Spain. August 2011.
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Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) male with the long tail. Xiaoliuqiu Island, Taiwan.
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Neil Aldridge / Vet taking a rescued Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) for a walk to forage for ants during its rehabilitation at the Rhino Revolution facility in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Thi...
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Heather Angel / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) on Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), spatter marks guiding bee to nectar. In garden, Surrey, England, UK. July.
Alex Mustard / Long exposure with zoom blur of a school of crescent-tail bigeye (Priacanthus hamrur) on a coral reef. North Male Atoll, Maldives. Indian Ocean
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SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Bumblebee, (Bombus hortorum), in flight about to alight on honeysuckle flower, Scotland, UK, July.
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David Pattyn / Long-tailed sylph hummingbird (Aglaiocercus kingii) Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador , July
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Pascal Kobeh / Pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus) on the reef with its long tail being cleaned by a cleanerfish, Sulu Sea, Philippines.
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Pascal Kobeh / Pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus) with its long tail, Sulu Sea, Philippines.
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David Perpinan / Sexual dimorphism in adult red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria). Left: male (concave plastron, long tail), right: female (flat plastron, short tail) small repro only
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Ernie Janes / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) taking off from Knapweed, England, UK, August.
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Nick Garbutt / Long-tailed potoo (Nyctibius aethereus) camouflaged on roosting perch in lowland rainforest, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru.
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Konrad Wothe / Slow motion clip of a Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) feeding from a Marsh gladiolus (Gladiolus palustris), Bavaria, Germany, July.
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David Fleetham / Tail of Long jawed squirrelfish (Sargocentron spiniferum), Hawaii.
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David Fleetham / Six inch long razor sharp tail barb of an undetermined species of stingray (Dasyatidae). Komodo National Park, Indonesia.
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Sylvain Cordier / Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) male in the rain, Sabah, Borneo.
Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to feed on Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to feed on Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) feeding on Toadflax (Linaria purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to feed on Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) feeding on Toadflax (Linaria purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. June.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to Purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum), flying to Purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum), flying to Purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, June.
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Phil Savoie / Bumblebee mite (Parasitus fucorum) parasite in Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) hair (or setae) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. April.
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Phil Savoie / Bumblebee mite (Parasitus fucorum) parasite in Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) hair (or setae) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. April.
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Phil Savoie / Bumblebee mite (Parasitus fucorum) parasite in Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) hair (or setae) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. April.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to Oilseed rape / Rapeseed (Brassica napus) flowers, UK, April.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) feeding on Oilseed rape / Rapeseed (Brassica napus) flowers, UK, April.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) visiting Goat willow (Salix caprea) male catkins, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. March.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) visiting Goat willow (Salix caprea) male catkins, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. March.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum), in flight to Hedge woundwort (Stachys sylvatica), Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.
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Alex Mustard / RF - Long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) female using its prehensile tail to hold on to a blade of seagrass (Posidonia oceanica). Capo Galera, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. Mediterranean Sea. (...
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Tony Wu / Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) swimming upside-down at the ocean surface after coming up from a long foraging dive. Ogasawara / Bonin Islands, Japan.
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Doug Perrine / Pod of Hawaiian / Gray's Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris longirostris), one dolphin is playing with a leaf draped across its tail fluke, Ho'Okena, South Kona, Hawaii, USA, Central Pacific Ocea...
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Juan Carlos Munoz / Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) showing long tail, captive,
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David Pattyn / RF - Western red colobus (Procolobus badius) youngster in an old tree. Gambia, Africa. May 2016. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Christophe Courteau / Long tail / Crab eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) stealing food from tourist bungalow, Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo. Malaysia.
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Christophe Courteau / Long tail / Crab eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) foraging for crabs on beach at dusk, Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo. Malaysia.
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Christophe Courteau / Long tail / Crab eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) stealing food from tourist bungalow, Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo. Malaysia.
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Will Watson / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) pollinating Great willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum), Herefordshire, England.
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Markus Varesvuo / Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) male displaying on water, only tail visible above water surface, Vardo, Norway March
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Markus Varesvuo / Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) male preening tail feathers on water, Vardo, Norway March
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David Pattyn / Long-tailed Glossy-Starling (Lamprotornis caudatus) perched, The Gambia, Africa, April 2016
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Nick Garbutt / Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) Riverine forest, Kinabatangan River, Sukau, Sabah, Borneo.
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Robin Chittenden / Common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) perched with tail up. Sri Lanka.
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Nick Upton / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) worker nectaring on Common vetch (Vicia sativum), RSPB Dungeness Nature Reserve, Kent, UK, May.
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Nick Upton / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) worker nectars on Common comfrey flowers (Symphytum officinale) in a patch planted by the Bumblee Conservation Trust on farmland, Romney Marshes, Suffolk, UK, June.
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Cyril Ruoso / White-bellied spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) holding branch with prehensile tail, Pacaya Samiria NP, Amazon, Peru
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Nick Hawkins / Long-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis) perched on lek (display perch), Costa Rica.
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Will Watson / Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) pollinating Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris) in garden lawn, Hererfordshire, England, UK, July.
Ann & Steve Toon / Magpie shrikes (Corvinella melanoleuca), Kruger national park, South Africa, May
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Richard Du Toit / Longtailed widowbird (Eupletes progne) male displaying, Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa.
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Richard Du Toit / Black wildebeest (Connochaetus gnou) bull snorting, silhouetted at dawn, Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
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Richard Du Toit / Longtailed widowbird (Eupletes progne) male in flight, Rietvlei Nature Reserve, South Africa.
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Cyril Ruoso / Children playing on carcass of Long finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) hunted for meat, Faroe Islands, August 2003.
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Kirkendall-Spring / Long tail boats docked on the Khlong Bangkok Yai (canal), Bangkok Thailand, September 2014.
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Colin Varndell / Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) on hazel branch, Dorset, UK, August.
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Denis-Huot / RF- Leopard (Panthera pardus) female in grass, Masai-Mara game reserve, Kenya. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Roland Seitre / Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec (Microgale longicaudata) in hand. Captive, endemic to Madagascar.
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John Abbott / Common Whitetail Dragonfly (Plathemis lydia) male, Sabine National Forest, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas, USA.
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Alex Mustard / Pair of male Longtail dragonets (Callionymus neptunius) aggressively displaying to each other, Dauin, Dumaguete, Negros, Philippines. Bohol Sea, Tropical West Pacific Ocean.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) in flight towards Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis), Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, May.
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Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying towards Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis) flower, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, April.
