Neil Aldridge / Okavango robbers (Rhabdalestes maunensis) fish swimming up the temporary Selinda Spillway, northern Botswana. This shallow river cuts across the Kalahari Desert and joins the Okavango River system wit...

Nick Garbutt,Nick Garbutt / Tourist watching masses of butterflies drinking from temporary pools. Various species including Large Orange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe), Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae), White-angled Sulphur (Anteo...

Andrew Parkinson / Gannet (Morus bassanus) adult taking off from temporary roost sight. Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, September.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Hermansen / Turlough lake (temporary / seasonal ground water lake) Burren National Park, County Clare, Republic of Ireland, June 2009

Nick Turner / Temporary flood barriers erected around a pub at Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire, June 2007

John Cancalosi / Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus auduboni) drinking from a temporary pool of water, Sonoran Desert, Arizona

Tui De Roy / Volcan Alcedo Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra vandenburghi) wallowing in temporary rainy season pool, Alcedo Volcano, Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Martin Gabriel / Peak of Spitzkoppe reflected in ephemeral pool, wet season. Damaraland, Namibia

Doug Gimesy / Two researchers examining an anaesthetised platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and starting to glue a temporary radio transponder to its tail, allowing researchers to track its movements. Snowy River...

Doug Gimesy / Two researchers examine an anaesthetised Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and start to glue a temporary radio transponder to its tail, allowing researchers to track its movements. Snowy River banks...

Doug Gimesy / Two researchers examine an anaesthetised platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Body measurements, blood, urine and DNA samples will be taken, and a temporary radio transponder could be glued to its t...

Doug Gimesy / Researchers drying glue, whilst attaching a transponder to the tail an anaesthetised Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). This temporary radio transponder will allow researchers to track its movements...