John Chan / Juvenile Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea)predating a twig, learning stalking and hunting skills, Southern California, USA, July.

John Chan / Juvenile Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) predating a twig , learning stalking and hunting skills, Southern California, USA, July.

Andy Rouse / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mother with young Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) for young to chase and learn hunting skills, Masai Mara, Kenya (non-ex)

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) cub chases an Arctic fox (Vulpes / Alopex lagopus) on the pack ice to practice its hunting skills, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Beaufort Sea, Alaska,...

Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), two chicks aged one month. Owlet perched on post whilst other lands on head whilst practicing predatory skills. Edge of corn field, Marana, Arizona, USA. June.

Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), two chicks aged one month. Owlet perched on post whilst other lands on head whilst practicing predatory skills. Edge of corn field, Marana, Arizona, USA. June.

Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) chick aged one month practicing predatory skills, portrait. Marana, Arizona, USA. June.

Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), two fledglings aged 6 weeks practicing predatory skills, Marana, Arizona, USA. June.

Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), two fledglings aged 6 weeks practicing predatory skills, Marana, Arizona, USA. June.

Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), two fledglings aged 6 weeks practicing predatory skills, Marana, Arizona, USA. June.

Alex Mustard / California sea lion pup (Zalophus californianus) practicings its hunting skills by playing chase with a falling sea star (Panamic cushion star: Pentacerster cumingi). Los Islotes, La Paz, Baja Califor...

Staffan Widstrand / White rhinoceros (Ceratothorium simum) trying to impress on a female by showing digging skills. Marataba Private Reserve, Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer in blizzard, Cairngorm Scotland UK. February 2007

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer in blizzard, Cairngorm Scotland UK. February 2007

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer in blizzard, Cairngorm Scotland UK. February 2007

Ashley Cooper / Man re-thatching old barn, Symondsbury, Dorset UK, June 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Man re-thatching old barn, Symondsbury, Dorset UK, June 2012.

David Fleetham / Two divers practices their diving skills in a resort pool, Hawaii. December 2013. Model released.

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cub (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Keny...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah cubs (Acinonyx jubatus) aged 6-9 months hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by their mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Ken...

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Anup Shah / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) cubs aged 6-9 months hunting Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) fawn caught by their mother, to help develop hunting skills, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Bernard Castelein / Young Vezo boys, playing with toy boat (pirogue) learning the necessary skills to sail as fisherman, Morondave, Madagascar. November 2014.

Laurent Geslin / San bushman pointing, Kalahari desert, Namibia 2005

Laurent Geslin / San bushman pointing to animal droppings, Kalahari desert, Namibia 2005

Neil Aldridge / Zu/'hoasi Bushmen prepare the hide of a goat by removing the hair. With restrictions on the animals that they are allowed to hunt, Bushmen communities rely on these animals for food, clothing, quivers...

Neil Aldridge / A Zu/'hoasi Bushman scrapes hair from an animal hide while a child watches. Kalahari, Botswana. April 2012.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Yalena, an elderly Selkup woman, sewing a pair of traditional reindeer skin boots, Krasnoselkup, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia 2012

Toby Roxburgh / 2020VISION / Group of people on a seafood cookery course, during the course, run by Dorset-based Fraser Christian, people learn about fish and shellfish cookery skills, with an emphasis on locally-caught sustainab...

Toby Roxburgh / 2020VISION / Group of people on a seafood cookery course, during the course, run by Dorset-based Fraser Christian, people learn about fish and shellfish cookery skills, with an emphasis on locally-caught sustainab...

Toby Roxburgh / 2020VISION / Group of people on a seafood cookery course, during the course, run by Dorset-based Fraser Christian, people learn about fish and shellfish cookery skills, with an emphasis on locally-caught sustainab...

Toby Roxburgh / 2020VISION / Group of people on a seafood cookery course, during the course, run by Dorset-based Fraser Christian, people learn about fish and shellfish cookery skills, with an emphasis on locally-caught sustainab...

Toby Roxburgh / 2020VISION / Group of people on a seafood cookery course, during the course, run by Dorset-based Fraser Christian, people learn about fish and shellfish cookery skills, with an emphasis on locally-caught sustainab...

Toby Roxburgh / 2020VISION / Group of people on a seafood cookery course run by Dorset-based Fraser Christian. People learn about fish and shellfish cookery skills with an emphasis on locally-caught sustainable species, Dorset, E...

Toby Roxburgh / 2020VISION / Group of people on a seafood cookery course, during the course, run by Dorset-based Fraser Christian, people learn about fish and shellfish cookery skills, with an emphasis on locally-caught sustainab...

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) throwing large salmon into the air, Kessock Narrows, Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, September 2011, sequence 6/6. Did you know? Like some other pre...

Kristel Richard / Two gauchos (cowboys) mounted on a horse (Equus caballus) show their skills at catching a cow during the Fiesta De La Patria Gaucha, Tacuarembo, Uruguay, April 2008

Kristel Richard / A gaucho (cowboy) shows his skills at herding cows, during the Fiesta De La Patria Gaucha, Tacuarembo, Uruguay, April 2008

Andy Rouse / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mother with caught young Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) for youngsters to chase and learn hunting skills, Masai Mara, Kenya (non-ex)

Andy Rouse / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mother with young caught Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) for young to chase and learn hunting skills, Masai Mara, Kenya (non-ex)

Andy Rouse / Two juvenile Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) with young Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) they have chased to learn hunting skills, Masai Mara, Kenya (non-ex)

Andy Rouse / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mother carrying young Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) for youngsters to chase and learn hunting skills, Masai Mara, Kenya (non-ex)

Andy Rouse / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mother having caught young Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) for youngsters to chase and learn hunting skills, Masai Mara, Kenya (non-ex)

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) running towards an Arctic fox (Vulpes / Alopex lagopus) on the pack ice to practice its hunting skills, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Beaufort Sea, Ala...

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) cub chasing a pair of Arctic foxes (Vulpes / Alopex lagopus) on the pack ice to practice its hunting skills, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Beaufort Sea...

Keith Scholey / Kalahari Bushman tracking, mother teaches skills to child. Namibia

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) named Gongzhu, captive born and raised, learning parenting skills with toy cub after rejecting her two cubs born in 2003, in 2004 she successfully raised a new cub...

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) named Gongzhu, captive born and raised, learning parenting skills with toy baby after rejecting her two cubs born in 2003, in 2004 she successfully raised a new cu...

Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) named Gongzhu, captive born and raised, learning parenting skills by watching a video of her mother caring for a one month old baby, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Mustang (Equus caballus) young bachelor stallions play-fight to gain skills they need to win and keep mares, Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, Montana

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Mustang (Equus caballus) young bachelor stallions play-fight to gain skills they need to win and keep mares, Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, Montana

Nick Upton / Aborigine of the Bunun tribe practise archery skills using animal ear as target, Taiwan

Angelo Giampiccolo / Shipwright at work with a plumb line during construction of a 38-metre wooden motorboat, at a boatbuilders in Fiumicino, Rome. ^^^It is rare today to see big boats such as this made of wood.

Onne van der Wal / Sail making, North Sails.

Onne van der Wal / A model yacht maker adding detail to a scale-model of the 1915 Herreshoff schooner "Mariette".

Angelo Giampiccolo / Shipwright at work with a plumb line during construction of a 38-metre wooden motorboat, at a boatbuilders in Fiumicino, Rome. ^^^It is rare today to see big boats such as this made of wood.

Kristel Richard / A pompilho (a Portuguese cowboy), riding a Lusitano horse, demonstrates skills with garrocha, Feira da Golega, Ribatejo, Portugal. A Garrocha pole is used to move cows.

Kristel Richard / Two pompilho (Portuguese cowboys), riding Lusitano horses and demonstrating skills with garrochas, Feira da Golega, Ribatejo, Portugal. Garrochas are long poles used to move cows.

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, get ready to display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival,...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, get ready to display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival,...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, get ready to display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival,...

Kristel Richard / Traditionally dressed Bajau horsemen, also known as the Cowboys of the East, display their riding skills on colourfully dressed Bajau horses, during the Tamu Besar (Big Market) Festival, in Kota Belud...

Tony Wu / A male Humpback whale calf (Megaptera novaeangliae) practicing how to make big splashes and loud sounds with his fluke and caudal region. Skills like this will become an important part of life for thi...

David Fleetham / Scuba diving instructor Anthony Manion practices skills with four students in a hotel pool on Maui, Hawaii. Model released.

David Fleetham / SCUBA diving instructor Anthony Manion practices skills with four students in a hotel pool on Maui, Hawaii. July 2019. Model released.

David Fleetham / Scuba diving instructor Anthony Manion practices skills with four students in a hotel pool on Maui, Hawaii. July 2019. Model released.

Eric Baccega / Cheetah subadult (Acinonyx jubatus) hunting a Thomson's gazelle fawn (Eudorcas thomsonii) caught by the mother so they can develop their hunting skills, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.