Alex Mustard / California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) uses a Panamic cushion star (Pentaceraster cumingi) as a toy. The sealions pick up the starfish and then drop them and chase after them as they sink. Los I...

Pete Oxford / Tea picker, collecting Tea leaves (Camelia sinensis) wearing large straw hat, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Woman with basket on her head picking tea (Camellia sinensis), Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Eric Baccega / Afar men mining salt at Lake Assale. Danakil depression, Afar region, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Alex Mustard / A young California sealion (Zalophus californianus) playing with a starfish, inside an underwater cave. The pups will pick up a variety of objects (such as starfish, lumps of coral, shells and feather...

Alex Mustard / A young California sealion (Zalophus californianus) playing with a starfish, inside an underwater cave. The pups will pick up a variety of objects (such as starfish, lumps of coral, shells and feather...

Igor Shpilenok / Steller's sea eagle {Haliaeetus pelagicus} about to pick up Sockeye salmon prey in its claws, Kuril Lake, Kamchatka, Far East Russia

Michael Richards / John Downer / Eagle cannot open a tortoise's shell so it has to pick it up in talons and drop it on stones to break open (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film, 'Weird Nature' tv series)

Nigel Cattlin / Cultivated Blackberries on Bramble (Rubus sp) plants supported by wires, ripe and unripe berries. Berkshire, England, UK. July.

Alex Mustard / Pair of Emperor shrimp (Zenopontonia rex / Periclimenes imperator) female is the larger one, hitch a ride on a large nudibranch (Tambja luteolineata) and pick food from the seabed with their claws. Bi...

Heather Angel / Butterflies and day flying moths feed from Loofah flower (Luffa cylindrica) and pick up pollen on their legs, underside of thorax and antennae, South Sichuan Bamboo Sea, China

Heather Angel / Chinese peacock butterfly (Papilio bianor) drinking nectar from a Hibiscus flower. To maintain position it flaps the wings which pick up pollen on their undersides from the stamens placed on the end o...