SINCLAIR STAMMERS / Photomicrograph of fully embryonated (Neoascaris / Toxocara vitulorum) eggs containin larvae immediately prior to hatching. Parasitic nematodes which normally infect cattle, collected from Egyptian ca...

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), Xiang Xiang the first captive raised panda to be released into the wild, in pre release enclosure eating bamboo, Wolong Nature Reserve, endangered, China

Katherine Feng / Lesser Panda (Ailurus fulgens) eating bamboo, endangered, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

Mitsuaki Iwago / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) eating bamboo, China

Pete Oxford / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) sitting in vegetation eating bamboo, Wolong China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda within Wolong Reserve, Sichuan Province

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) Gongzhu and cub in bamboo forest, Wolong Nature Reserve, China, digital composite

Gerry Ellis / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) eating bamboo, endemic to montane forest of southeast China

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) mother and her cub at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

Jim Brandenburg / Bamboo (Dendrocalamus sp) forest with boy, Nepal

Jim Brandenburg / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) eating bamboo, native to Asia

Norbert Wu / Seagrass beds serve as sediment traps and nurseries, Palau

Piotr Naskrecki / Mantid (Liturgusa sp) female with parasitic nematode that has just emerged from her body, killing her in the process, Suriname