Alex Mustard / Backlit detail of branching fire coral (Millepora alcicornis) showing the hair like polyps, filled with stinging nematocysts. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Caribbean Sea.
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Cyril Ruoso / Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) seen from burrow, Iceland. July.
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Gabriel Rojo / Scimitar-billed woodcreeper (Drymornis bridgesii) at nest hole, Calden forest, La Pampa, Argentina.
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Espen Bergersen / Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) squabbling on ice. Svalbard, Norway. July
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Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) colony, Bird Island Nature Reserve, Lambert's Bay, West Coast, South Africa.
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Pal Hermansen / Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) feeding young on steering wheel of abandoned car in 'car graveyard' Varmland, Sweden, June
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Diane McAllister,Diane McAllister / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) females gather at one end of the hot springs, Jigokudani, Japan, February
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Juan Carlos Munoz / Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) troop, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia, Africa
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Tom Gilks / Women talking to each other whilst carrying plastic baskets on their heads, Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya, February 2013.
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Tom Gilks / Women talking to each other whilst carrying plastic baskets on their heads, Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya, February 2013.
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Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Traditional medicine trader holding a pair of Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) hands and talking to the camera about and what they are used for, Libreville, Gabon, 2008.
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Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Traditional medicine trader holding Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) skulls and talking about what they are used for, Libreville, Gabon, 2008.