Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf 'Tahafa' male with injured pectoral fin and scarred body, with mother. Vava'u, Tonga, Pacific Ocean. COP26 Countdown Photo Competition 2021 Finalist.

Wim van den Heever / Lion (Panthera leo) male with scars photographed with side-lit spot light at night. Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa, April.

Eric Baccega / Young man from the Bodi Tribe having new scars made on his chest with razor blade, to make decorative skin scarifications. Omo Valley, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Eric Baccega / Toposa tribe man with elaborate facial skin scarifications, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) on an iceberg in Paradise Bay, Antarctica.

Neil Aldridge / Scarred face of a white rhinoceros (Ceratotherum simum) that survived an attack by poachers who illegally tranquillised her, two other rhinoceroses died from their injures. However this female 'Th...

David Pattyn / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with scarred back probably after collision with a boat. Masoala National Park, Bay of Angotil, north east Madagascar. August

Olga Kamenskaya / Scarred Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) with broken tusks on coast of Phippsoya, Svalbard, Norway

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Heather moorland scarred with patchwork burning neighboured by non-native tree plantation, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, UK, March

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) female with scarred fluke (possibly caused by orcas) and calf in the background. Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf 'Tahafa' male with injured pectoral fin and scarred body, with mother. Vava'u, Tonga, Pacific Ocean.

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf 'Tahafa' male with injured pectoral fin and scarred body, with mother. Vava'u, Tonga, Pacific Ocean.