Alex Mustard / Pair of Western clown anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) spawning orange eggs on the rock beneath their Magnificent sea anemone (Heteractis magnifica) home on a coral reef. This photo shows the larger...

Lucas Bustamante / Aerial view of cut tree trunks in deforested Ecuadorian Choco, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. 25 tree species, many of them threatened, are involved.

Steven David Miller / Long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) feeding on bird seed fallen from bird feeders which encourages them to come out into open woodland. Fences around the property protect them from feral predato...

Marie Read / Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa), females behave aggressively toward a male (second from right) that is trying to join them on a floating log, autumn, New York, USA, October.

Derek Galon / Damaged forest overgrown by various vines, a typical scene in western part of Dominica, West Indies. After hurricane Maria an unprecedented number of vines took advantage of suddenly open spaces in th...

Remi Masson / Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) carrying branches back to lodge, dropping them when alarmed. River Rhone, Rhone-Alpes, France, June.

David Fleetham / Hawaiian pom-pom / boxer crab (Lybia edmondsoni)with anemones (Triactis sp) that it carries around holding with the claws and using them for defense, waving in front of the possible aggressor. An exam...

Tui De Roy / Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) killing tuna. A group of the sea lion bulls have learnt to herd Pelagic yellowfin tuna into a small cove, trapping them. The fish often leap ashore in an effor...

Tui De Roy / Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) hunting tuna. A group of the sea lion bulls have learnt to herd Pelagic yellowfin tuna into a small cove, trapping them. The fish often leap ashore in an effor...

Tui De Roy / Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) hunting tuna. A group of the sea lion bulls have learnt to herd Pelagic yellowfin tuna into a small cove, trapping them. The fish often leap ashore in an effor...

Alex Mustard / California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) uses a Panamic cushion star (Pentaceraster cumingi) as a toy. The sealions pick up the starfish and then drop them and chase after them as they sink. Los I...

Jack Dykinga / Agave (Agave utahensis) close up of spines with Pinyon pine cone (Pinus edulis) wedged amongst them. Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Arizona, USA

Philippe Clement / Group of Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) climbing a cliff face, with others fighting above them, Gran Paradiso National Park, Graian Alps, Italy, June.

Anup Shah / Eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtheii) female 'Gremlin' aged 41 years grooms her daughter 'Golden' aged 14 years while their infants 'Gizmo' aged 3 years and 'Glamma' aged 9 months sit b...

Juergen Freund / Paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) with engorged body on human hand, this species affects many species, Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) among them and infects them with a toxin that ca...

Pete Oxford / Apatani woman with facial tattoos and traditional cane nose plugs / Yapin Hulo made to make them look unattractive to males from other tribes. These facial modifications are now outlawed. Apatani Tr...

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) Sultan tied up in front of a tourist shop in the souk, Douz, Kebili Governorate. Tunisia. Unwittingly, tourists support the capture of fennec fox cubs from the wild by payi...

Rob Jordan / 2020VISION / Timelapse of tourists boarding a boat to take them to the Farne Islands, Seahouses Harbour, Northumberland, England, UK, July 2011

Jordi Chias / Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) covering with sand the eggs after laying them in the beach, Europa Island, Eparse Islands / Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, Mozambique Channel, Indian Ocean.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Thuli Maya Fuyal, widow, in her small room in Kathmandu. In Nepal women who lose their husbands lose their own identity. Are rejected and forced to leave their homes. In many cases, they become victim...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Rita Pudel, widow, with her son, in the room that serves as a shelter. In Nepal women who lose their husbands lose their own identity. Are rejected and forced to leave their homes. In many cases, they...

Laurent Geslin / Young Benna woman looking after cattle and showing the scars on her back, these are inflicted on teenage girls by their brothers and are considered a mark of beauty and bravery, the girls provoke thei...

Laurent Geslin / Young Benna woman looking after cattle and showing the scars on her back, these are inflicted on teenage girls by their brothers and are considered a mark of beauty and bravery, the girls provoke thei...

Alex Mustard / A male Yellow-headed jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) blowing out a clutch of eggs he has been incubating in his mouth in order to oxygenate them, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West...

Mark Carwardine / A cloud of Straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) with an immature African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) flying amongst them, Kasanka National Park, Zambia, Africa

Floris van Breugel / A skier glides past an erupting geyser in the Old Faithful geyser basin in Yellowstone National Park. The cold temperatures in the winter cause the geysers to release more steam than usual making the...

Steven Kazlowski / Crew bleeds a full deckload of Pacific cod fish (Gadidae family) before putting them in salt water tanks, on the fishing trawler Western Dawn, Gulf of Alaska, USA. No release available.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Black footed penguin (Spheniscus demsersus) chick hatching inside a small incubator at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) which collects abandoned eggs fro...

Jean E. Roche / Aerial view of fruit trees covered with nets and poplar trees planted to protect them against the wind, Camargue, Southern France, May 2009

Alex Mustard / Yellow tube sponge (Aplysina fistularis) top view of tubes with water swirling around them, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Adult female Eurasian dotterel (Charadrius morinellus) in breeding habitat on upland plateau of Grampian mountains, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, May 2011. Did you know? In one summer, a female dottere...

Andrew Parkinson / 2020VISION / An adult Coot (Fulica atra) running across the surface of a lake, Derbyshire, England, UK, March 2010. Did you know? It is a current theory that dinosaurs such as Archaeopteryx developed wings to help...

Anup Shah / Caracal (Caracal caracal) two six month kittens resting with their mother, looking behind them, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, August

Andy Rouse / 2020VISION / European river otter (Lutra lutra) swimming, Dorset, UK, May. Did you know? Following efforts to save them from extinction, otters have now returned to every county in England – proof that conservatio...

Jenny E. Ross / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) sub-adult male on cliff searching for eggs in Brunnich's Guillemot nests, as gulls look on from above. This unusual behaviour happens when when lack of sea-ice prevents t...

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Yellow / spiny seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) female sheltering is meadow of common Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Studland Bay, Dorset, UK, August. Did you know? The two species of seahorse found in Br...

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Common / Eurasian cranes (Grus grus) three 18 month juveniles, 'Bart', 'Christine' and 'Gilbert', released by the Great Crane Project onto the Somerset Levels and Moors, calling in Barley stubble fiel...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / People walking down a snow slope to Windy Ridge, with altocumulus undulatus clouds above them. Patriot Hills. West Antarctica, January 2006.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Two Grey herons (Ardea cinerea) squabbling over fish fed to them by visitors,River Tame, Reddish Vale Country Park, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK, December 2010

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Two Grey herons (Ardea cinerea) on ice, squabbling over fish fed to them by visitors, River Tame, Reddish Vale Country Park, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK, December 2010, Highly commended, Urban W...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) amongst visitors in Regent's Park, London, UK, April 2011. Photographer quote: 'It was fascinating to watch public reaction to the large numbers of herons in London's parks...

Andy Rouse / 2020VISION / Wild boar (Sus scrofa) female in woodland undergrowth smelling air for scent of human, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK, March. Photographer quote: 'I am not sure if it was my lack of smelly shower...

Juergen Freund / A massive workforce of more than 300 women debone Milkfish (Chanos chanos) and pack them on ice. 60% for export market, mainly the Filipino communities living in North America and 40% consumed locall...

Danny Green / 2020VISION / Adder (Vipera berus) coiled, basking on moss in the spring sunshine, Staffordshire, England, UK, April. Photographer quote: "OK so snakes are perhaps not as sexy as seals or foxes but I just can't get...

Alex Mustard / A young California sealion (Zalophus californianus) playing with a starfish, inside an underwater cave. The pups will pick up a variety of objects (such as starfish, lumps of coral, shells and feather...

Alex Mustard / A young California sealion (Zalophus californianus) playing with a starfish, inside an underwater cave. The pups will pick up a variety of objects (such as starfish, lumps of coral, shells and feather...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit home with dead Arctic hares (Lepus arcticus) hanging outside to keep them cold. Moriussaq, Northwest Greenland.

Solvin Zankl / These hatchlings of an Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) should be buried and protected under 40 cm of warm sand, but a domestic dog dug them out at Ostional beach in Costa Rica. Novembe...

Charlie Summers / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) running at full speed chasing Springbok prey, Kalahari Desert, Southern Africa

Solvin Zankl / Mating swarm of Long-tailed / Tisza mayflies (Palingenia longicauda) Tisza river, Hungary, Every female is approached by several mature males. Eventually the female mates with one of them on the water...

Solvin Zankl / Mating swarm of Long-tailed / Tisza mayfly(Palingenia longicauda) Every female is approached by several mature males. Eventually the female mates with one of them on the water surface. June 2008

Igor Shpilenok / Wolverine (Gulo gulo) walking in the snow. Wolverine's paws are large, allowing them to walk easily through deep snow. Zapovednik, Kamchatka, Russia

Nick Upton / Great Crane Project team members Beate Blahy and Roland Digby inspecting Eurasian / Common crane eggs (Grus grus) in reed pool nest in Germany before collecting them for UK reintroduction programme. S...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Stemless gentian (Gentiana clusii) flowers, an ant in one of them, Liechtenstein, June 2009. Highly Commended in the Creative Visions of Nature category, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzón / Mountains with low clouds surrounding them, La Caldera de Taburiente National Park, La Palma, Canary Islands Spain, March 2009

Jeff Vanuga / Cowboys working for the Bureau of Land Management round up wild horses / mustangs to remove them from public land, Red Desert, Wyoming, USA. Model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Peltomä / Dalmatian pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) sqabbling over fish being thrown to them, Lake Kerkini, Macedonia, Greece, February 2009

Charlie Hamilton James / Common kingfisher {Alcedo atthis} female (right) being aggressive to chicks, encouraging them to disperse, England

Jabruson / Grass fire started by poachers in the dry season, in attempt to drive wildlife out for them to hunt, Rwindi plains, Virunga NP, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together to make a nest, Malaysia

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together to make a nest, Malaysia

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together, Malaysia

PREMAPHOTOS / Green tree {Oecophylla smaragdina} drawing leaf edges together to 'sew' them into a nest, Australia

Mark Moffett / Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile) group feed on soft nutritious eliasome at the tip of a fynbos shrub and discard the seeds without burying them, jeopardizing the fynbos community, South Africa

Sumio Harada / Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) mother returning to her 35 day old babies in nest to nurse them, Rocky Mountains, North America

Matthias Breiter / Two climbers at Ruth Glacier, with Mt McKinley towering above them, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska

Mark Moffett / Strawberry Poison Dart Frog (Oophaga pumilio) mother deposits tadpoles, one by one, to pools of water in canopy bromeliad, scattering them among the trees, Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro, Panama

Dave Watts / Platypus {Ornithornhynchus anatinus} swimming underwater native to East Australia and Tasmania. A poisonous monotreme mammal that lays eggs and incubates them in a burrow.

Doug Gimesy / Platypus researchers retrieving a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) from a Fyke net that was set up to capture them as part of a Melbourne Water study to monitor the local population. Worri Yallock...

Doug Gimesy / Platypus researchers retrieving a Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) from a Fyke net that was set up to capture them as part of a Melbourne Water study to monitor the local population. Once retrieved...

Doug Gimesy / 1554 recovered Grey-headed Fly-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) carcases collected during a heat-stress at event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox colony - about one third of those estimate...

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of 1554 recovered Grey-headed Fly-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) carcases collected during a heat-stress at event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox colony - about one third of th...

Doug Gimesy / Firefighter from Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MBF) try and help cool down the Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony by spraying water on them. Park Ranger and Gre...

Doug Gimesy / Firefighter from Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MBF) try and help cool down the Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony by spraying water on them. Park Ranger and...

Doug Gimesy / Firefighters from Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MBF) try and help cool down Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony by spraying water on them. Pa...

Doug Gimesy / Sprinkler system set up high in the trees at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony in an attempt to try and keep them cool during an extreme heat event whe...

Doug Gimesy / Trees with Grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) hang in them. Yarra Bend Park. Kew, Victoria, Australia. November 2019.

Phil Savoie / Painted nomad bee (Nomada fucata) female laying eggs in the nest burrow of Yellow legged mining bee (Andrena flavipes) larva kleptoparasitises pollen store of Andrena flavipes larve killing them, Rive...

Heather Angel / Stigmas in female flowers of single Wax begonia (Begonia semperflorens group) mimic pollen laden stamens produced by male flowers but offer no reward to pollinators, which land on them and pollinate t...

Laurie Hedges / Tracking shot moving through dead trees in a deforested part of the Amazon rainforest, the trees have been sprayed with herbicides to kill them, Brazil, 2019.

Laurie Hedges / Tracking shot moving through dead trees in a deforested part of the Amazon rainforest, the trees have been sprayed with herbicides to kill them, Brazil, 2019.

Doug Gimesy / Silhouette of the head of a Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) through its wings. On hot days when resting in trees, flying-foxes will spread their highly vascular wings, thereby allowing...

Doug Gimesy / Silhouette of the head of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) through its wings. On hot days when resting in trees, flying-foxes will spread their highly vascular wings, thereby allowing...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight, taking a flying high speed 'belly-dip' into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight, taking a flying high speed 'belly-dip' into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight, taking a flying high speed 'belly-dip' into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight just after a belly-dip into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which both acts as a form of evaporati...

Doug Gimesy / A Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) in flight just after having taken a flying high speed belly-dip into the Yarra river at the end of a very hot day. They do this to wet their fur which...

Doug Gimesy / Silhouette of the head of a Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) through its wings. On hot days when resting in trees, flying-foxes will spread their highly vascular wings, thereby allowing...

Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) hanging from a branch and cleaning wings by licking them at a colony next to the Yarra River, Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Neil Aldridge / Researcher Francois Meyer tracking an adult Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) that had been released back into the wild following its rehabilitation and rescue from poachers in Limpo...

Pascal Kobeh / Several pygmy seahorses (Hippocampus bargibanti) on a Muricella sp. Seafan / gorgonian. There is obviously among them one pregnant male, Sulu sea, Philippines

Heather Angel / Scarlet monkey flower (Mimulus cardinalis). The high position of the stamens and stigma ensure that the heads of hummingbird pollinators make contact with them whilst nectaring. Cultivated in garden,...

Karine Aigner / Graduate student from University of Florida baiting an Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae) trap with an egg, and a potato. The egg is the bait, and the potato is put in so that in the e...

Karine Aigner / Stomach contents of Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) are separated and laid out on sheets in order to identify them. Some of the contents seen here from varying snakes are Roseate spoonbill, Pied b...

Karine Aigner / Stomach contents of invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) are separated and laid out on sheets in order to identify them. Some of the contents seen here are the feet and feathers of a white ibi...