Cyril Ruoso / Volunteer feeding young Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Pandrillus Sanctury Rehabilitation Centre, Nigeria.

Staffan Widstrand / Spoon billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) standing in shallow water, Siberia, Russia, critically endangered

Ashley Cooper / Woman with solar cooker used to cook food for the school students at Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, near Vadodara, India. December.

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother giving pup Fat Inkeeper Worm (Urechis unicinctus) prey to feed on, Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, California

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) five year old juvenile male named Fanwwaa using leaves as spoon to scoop water from tree cavity, Bossou, Guinea. Sequence 4 of 4

Gerrit Vyn / Shellfish harvesters on the mudflats at Rudong, China. Besides being important to human livelihoods these mudflats are the last remaining place in the Yellow Sea where the critically endangered Spoon-...

Gerrit Vyn / Chinese bird photographers on the Rudong mudlfats in pursuit of critically endangered species Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) There is a general lack of knowledge about proper ethics around...

Ernie Janes / Great desert spoon (Dasylirion acrotrichum) growing in garden.

Kerstin Hinze / Hand raised Fat / Edible dormouse (Glis glis) feeding from a spoon with squashed banana and kitten milk formula, Captive, occurs in Europe.

Brent Stephenson / Adult Royal spoonbill (Platalea regia) in non-breeding plumage, showing the distinctive spoon-shaped bill. Manawatu Estuary, Manawatu, New Zealand, September.

Onne van der Wal / Person eating ginger yoghurt in the Grenadines, Caribbean, February 2010. Editorial use only.

Tony Phelps / Spoon flower or Lippypie (Gladiolus cunonius) DeHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa