Martha Holmes / Edge of large piece of ice sheet drifting in sea. Antarctic Peninsula. February 2008.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit while holding a piece of rotting wood which he will eat later, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit while holding a piece of rotting wood which he will eat later, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit while holding a piece of rotting wood which he will eat later, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special...

Roy Mangersnes / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) holding piece of ice after licking off freshwater, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, August

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chicks playing with a piece of ice as they wait for their next meal. Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, October.

Pete Oxford / Macushi woman preparing cassava bread from Cassava / Yuca (Manihot esculenta), crop is harvested, peeled, grated, squeezed to a matape, sieved, and roasted into a large flat piece of bread, Fairview...

Alex Mustard / Two Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) over a shallow sand bank. On the left is a juvenile which does not have the characteristic spots of the adults. The adult is carrying a piece of weed...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Piece of ice the size of a house crashing into Rype Fiord from Eielson Glacier. Scoresbysund, East Greenland, 2005.

Inaki Relanzon / Baroque altar piece in Nativity of Durro Church, romanesque church from XII century, and UNESCO world heritage, in the Boí Valley, Pyrenees, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.July 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Ziegler / Antlion (Myrmelentidae) on piece of wood, Patras area, The Peloponnese, Greece, May 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Varesvuo / Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) lifting leg with small piece of flesh on beak, Extremadura, Spain, April 2009