Colin Varndell / Badger (Meles meles) with face lit up at sunset. Dorset, UK July.

Sergey Gorshkov / Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) in sand dunes, Namibia. Finalist in the Mammals Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY) Competition 2015.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) mother with rare white furred baby, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Pete Oxford / Guanaco (Lama guanaco) with Cordiera del Paine in back. Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.

Andy Trowbridge / European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) perched on weathered branch. London, England, UK. December.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Big-headed mole rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus) appearing from its hole, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Taken with remote camera.

Dong Lei / Blood pheasants (Ithaginis cruentus) foraging in habitat, one looking at the camera, Meli Snow Mountain National Park, Yunnan Province, China, January. Endemic. Taken with remote camera.

Dong Lei / Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) in forest, Tangjianhe National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China. April.

Eric Medard / Badger (Meles meles) in garden, taken at night with infra red remote camera trap, Mayenne, Pays de Loire, France, August.

Diane McAllister,Diane McAllister / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) juvenile standing up with feet pointed inward, Jigokudani, Japan, January

Nick Garbutt / Flower of locally endemic Rafflesia (Rafflesia tengku-adlinii) flower diameter 22cm blooming on forest floor within lowland Dipterocarp rainforest, Maliau Basin, Sabah's 'Lost World', Borneo

Nick Garbutt / Gulik Falls, edge of southern plateau, Maliau Basin, Sabah's 'Lost World', Borneo (digitally stitched image)