Luis Quinta / Grass snake (Natrix natrix) juvenile playing dead, Alvao, Portugal, April.

Dave Watts / Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) swimming in lake, Tasmania, Australia.

Shattil & Rozinski,Shattil & Rozinski / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) playing with a dead squirrel in a garden Denver, Colorado, USA, July.

Laurent Geslin / Domestic cat (Felis catus) playing with prey, a dead Common treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) UK

Orsolya Haarberg / Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) swimming underwater, Telemark, Norway, June

Yashpal Rathore / Malabar torrent toad (Ghatophryne ornata) showing underside with bright yellow spots. This species act as dead when flipped. Wayanad, Kerala, Western Ghats, India. Endemic to the Western Ghats.

Nick Upton / Richard Wardle feeding three White stork (Ciconia ciconia) chicks, which are playing dead, with fish in their nest. In captive breeding colony raising young birds for UK White Stork reintroduction pro...

Philippe Clement / Two juvenile Lynx (Lynx lynx) playing with a dead rabbit in a forest in autumn, Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany, October. Captive.

Philippe Clement / Juvenile Lynx (Lynx lynx) playing with dead rabbit prey in autumn forest, Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany, October. Captive.

Mary McDonald / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) female cub, aged 8-10 months, carrying dead Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) infant, Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. February.

Silke Arndt / African lioness (Panthera leo) and sub-adult male feeding on a Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), with two more playing in the background, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Pascal Kobeh / Children are playing near a boat full of dead pieces of coral, harvested for construction. Noonu Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean.