Pete Oxford / Konyak Naga tattooed head hunter. Only someone who has killed and taken a human head can be tattooed in this manner. Mon district. Nagaland, North East India, October 2014.
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Pete Oxford / Apatani woman with facial tattoos and traditional cane nose plugs / Yapin Hulo made to make them look unattractive to males from other tribes. These facial modifications are now outlawed. Apatani Tr...
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Eric Baccega / Portrait of woman from the Mursi tribe, traditionally decorated and painted, wearing a large clay lip plate, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, March 2015.
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Eric Baccega / Portrait of woman from the Mursi tribe, traditionally decorated and painted, wearing a large clay lip plate, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, March 2015.
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Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Woman with lip plate, which signifies she is a married woman, Mursi tribe, Mago National Park. Ethiopia, November 20144
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Andy Sands / Long Water Measurer (Hydrometra stagnorum) drinking by piercing surface tension with mouthparts. Captive, UK, July.
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Eric Baccega / Portrait of Yali hunter in traditional dress, with nose adornment made of wild pig's bones, and rooster feather head-dress. West Papua, former Irian-Jaya, Indonesia, August 2002
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Phil Savoie / Early bumbebee (Bombus pratorum) male robbing nectar by piercing the flower base to drink nectar without pollinating hardy geranium flower (Geranium sp.) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. May.
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Phil Savoie / Early bumbebee (Bombus pratorum) male robbing nectar by piercing the flower base to drink nectar without pollinating hardy geranium flower (Geranium sp.) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. May.
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JIM CLARE / Black flowerpiercer (Diglossa humeralis) a nectar thief, piercing Angel's trumpet flower (Brugmansia sanguinea), Azuay, Andes, Ecuador.
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JIM CLARE / Black flowerpiercer (Diglossa humeralis) a nectar thief, piercing Angel's trumpet flower (Brugmansia sanguinea) Azuay, Andes, Ecuador.
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Heather Angel / Carpenter bee (Xylocopa caffra) male piercing corolla to rob nectar from Ninepin heath (Erica mammosa), failing to pollinate flower. Harold Porter Botanic Garden, Cape Fynbos, South Africa. February.