Roy Mangersnes / Man gathering crop of Coca (Erythroxylum coca) leaves using a net, the leaves are harvested six times a year, Bolivia, November. No release available.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) feeding a fledgling on a wire. Perthshire, Scotland, September. Did you know? Swallows have long had a close association with humans - nesting in the eaves of buildings...

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) alighting at pond, collecting material for nest building, Scotland, UK, June. Did you know? Barn swallows will feed their nestlings up to 400 times every day.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Tourist watching a Puffin (Fratercula arctica), Shetland Isles, Scotland, UK, July 2011. Did you know? When flying a Puffin can flap its wings 400 times a minute.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Portrait of Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag, Lochaber, West Highlands, Scotland, February. Did you know? A Red deer stag weighs 3 times the average weight of a human.

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Traditionally managed wildflower meadow with Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Hardington Moor NNR, Somerset, UK, May 2011, fish-eye lens. Did you know? Ox-eye daisies used in Medieval times to tre...

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag in pine forest in snow blizzard, Alvie Estate, Cairngorms NP, Highlands, Scotland, UK, March. Photographer quote: "At times I couldn't see this red deer stag such was th...

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sea daffodil / lily (Pancratium maritimum) flowers open in late afternoon and remain open overnight, coinciding with the flight times of the Convolvulus hawkmoth (Herse convolvuli) its pollinator, Umb...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Mountain daisy (Leucanthemum adustum) seen multiple times in water droplets on a blade of grass, Liechtenstein, June 2009 WWE BOOK

Angelo Gandolfi / Las Medulas, Cordillera Cantabrica, Castilla y Leon, Spain. The landscape, now a natural reserve, is man-made: the rock formations are the result of iron mining since Roman times and the wood is culti...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Mountain daisy (Leucanthemum adustum) seen multiple times in water droplets on a blade of grass, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Ross Hoddinott / Porth Nanven, nr St Just, Cornwall, UK - important example of quaternary geopmorphology: a raised Boulder beach, overlain by a considerable thickness of 'Head' deposits which demonstrates changes of s...

Solvin Zankl / Leafcutter ant {Atta sp} carrying leaf fragment to nest. Ants are champion weightlifters, capable of lifting 50 times their body weight (the equivalent of a human heaving 50 people). They would win a...

Mark Moffett / Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog (Epipedobates tricolor) near Cuenca, Ecuador this frog exudes epibatidine, a chemical with analgesic qualities two hundred times as powerful as morphine

Mark Payne-Gill / Peregrine falcon in flight {Falco peregrinus} Captive, England, UK. Peregrines have been recorded at speeds of 217mph in an attack dive - more than nine times the maximum speed of a human (27mph). Per...

David Shale / Deep sea Anglerfish male. Male is ten times smaller than female and has well developed olfactory system to help locate females in the darkness, Atlantic ocean

Tim MacMillan / John Downer Pr / Multiple exposure study of jumping Bushbaby which can leap six times its body length (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film, 'Weird Nature' tv series)

Tim MacMillan / John Downer Pr / Multiple exposure study of jumping Bushbaby which can leap six times its body length (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film, 'Weird Nature' tv series)

Gavin Hellier / Wide angle view of Broadway looking towards Times Square, Manhattan, New York, USA 2011

Suzi Eszterhas / Brown throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) faeces on ground, they defecate at the bottom of trees, one of the only times they come to the ground, Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica

Doc White / Kapok Tree (Ceiba pentandra) fruit, its fiber is eight times lighter than cotton and several times more buoyant than cork, extremely insulating as well as being odorless, non-allergic and non-toxic, A...

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major) foraging on birch trunk, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, December. 2020VISION Book Plate. Did you know? Great Spotted Woodpeckers can knock on wood...

Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Common dog violet (Viola riviniana) in flower, Gamlingay Wood, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, April. Did you know? In Medieval times the dog violet was used as deodorant.

Alex Mustard / Shy hamlet (Hypoplectrus guttavarius) pair spawning at dusk. Hamlets are one of the few vertebrate species that are true hermaphrodites, here the fish in the foreground is acting as a male, but this p...

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Large red damselfly {Pyrrhosoma nymphula} emerging from nymphal case, Cornwall, UK. April Sequence 2/2. Did you know? Once airborne a damselfly flaps its wings about 30 times every second.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas (San Felipe de Barajas Fortress), the largest military construction of Spanish colonial times in South America in Cartagena de Indias, a UNESCO World Heritage City. B...

Juergen Freund / Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) soaking to cool down from the summer heat. Water buffalo are brought to these watering holes three times a day when the farmers harvest rice. Sablayan, Philippines, Mar...

Juergen Freund / Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) soaking to cool down from the summer heat. They are brought to these watering holes three times a day when the farmers harvest rice. Sablayan, Philippines, March 2010.

Floris van Breugel / A Lenticular cloud formation or know locally as a 'Sierra Wave' which often forms over the Owens Valley in times of high winds before and after storms. Alabama Hills, California, USA, December 2009.

John Waters / Limestone Cave eroded by water in ancient time. Sunlight beams penetrate at certain times of day leading to local name of 'Cave of Light'. Qatar, Arabian Gulf, 2009.

David Woodfall / Landscape of vines. Viticulture in the Three Choirs vineyard. First UK vineyard in modern times.Severn Estuary. Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Close-up of grapes on the vine, Viticulture in the Three Choirs vineyard. First UK vineyard in modern times.Severn Estuary. Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Close-up of grapes on the vine, Viticulture in the Three Choirs vineyard. First UK vineyard in modern times. Severn Estuary. Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

David Woodfall / Grapes growing in the Three Choirs vineyard. First UK vineyard in modern times. Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire, England, UK. September 2009

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Judges in Lesser seed finch (Oryzoborus angolensis) singing competition recording how many times each bird sings in ten minutes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Albert Lleal / Siphonophore, magnified 12 times, Barcelona, Spain

Albert Lleal / Fish larva from the Meditterranean Sea, magnified 12 times, Barcelona, Spain

Albert Lleal / Fish egg from Mediterranean Sea, magnified 12 times, Barcelona, Spain

David Hall / Mantis shrimp {Odontodactylus scyllarus} Papua New Guinea. Mantis shrimp use their front legs to break the shells of their prey with a force 8,000 times that of gravity. If a human boxer had the same...

Konstantin Mikhailov / Sikhote-Alin Mountains from top of Mt. Sukhopadnaya (1700 m) with low morning clouds in the valleys, Primorsky, SE Siberia, Russia. These remote and yet absolutely wild areas have been visited onl...

Karl Ammann / White nosed guenon hunted with rifle for bushmeat, South east Cameroon, Central Africa. Firearms have been ubiquitous in forests since colonial times and have greatly improved hunting success, particu...

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Sucre bridge over Pilcomaya river, built in spanish colonial times, Bolivia

Kim Taylor / Froghopper (Issus coleoptratus) late nymph. Surrey, UK. Froghoppers are the world's high-jump champions and would win a gold medal in an animal olympics competition! They can jump 70cm (more than 100...

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) close-up of symbiotic green algae in hair, 20 times magnification, Central America

Constantinos Petrinos / Smasher Mantis shrimp {Odontodacyylus latirostris} Sulawesi Indonesia. Indo Pacific. This shrimp has a punch 8,000 times faster than gravity. An equivalent human punch would have a force equal to that...

Norbert Wu / Shrimp trawl catch, shrimp trawling results in tremendous bycatch and waste, up to 12 times bycatch for one pound of shrimp, Gulf of Mexico, Texas

Tui De Roy / Guanay Cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) nesting colony, species is the number one guano producer since Incan times, Independencia Island, Peru

Tui De Roy / Guanay Cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) nesting colony, species is the number one guano producer since Incan times, Independencia Island, Peru

Norbert Wu / Shrimper culling his catch, up to 12 times bycatch for one pound of shrimp, populations and habitat threatened by too many trawlers, Texas, USA, Gulf of Mexico

Norbert Wu / Shrimper culling his catch, up to 12 times bycatch for one pound of shrimp, populations and habitat threatened by too many trawlers, Texas, USA, Gulf of Mexico

Tui De Roy / Traditional air-drying of winter Cod, a method unchanged since Viking times, Reine, Lofoten Island, Norway

John Cancalosi / Fallow deer buck calling during rut (Dama dama) introduced species during Roman times, England, UK

Martha Holmes / Antarctic fur seal male with female and young pup. Males are much larger than females, often four times their weight.

tim MacMillan / John Downer Pr / Multiple exposure study of jumping Bushbaby which can leap six times its body length (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film, 'Weird Nature' tv series)

Tim MacMillan / John Downer Pr / Multiple exposure study of jumping Bushbaby which can leap six times its body length (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film, 'Weird Nature' tv series)

Rod Clarke / John Downer Produ / Seahorse's bony skin plates prevent it swimmming like a fish. Instead it moves by beating its back fin 20-30 times per second. (Resolution restriction due to image digitised from film - 'Weird Nature'...

Martha Holmes / Antarctic fur seals - male, female and pup. Males can be four times larger than females

Paul D Stewart / Massed egg shell debris from a nesting ground of the extinct giant Madagascan Elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus). The fragments were photographed undisturbed in situ among the dunes of Cap Sainte Marie...

Paul D Stewart / Massed egg shell debris from a nesting ground of the extinct giant Madagascan Elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus). The fragments were photographed undisturbed in situ among the dunes of Cap Sainte Marie...

Paul D Stewart / 1698 illustration of William Dampier, naturalist, explorer and buccaneer (August 1651 - March 1715). A posthumous 1787 Copperplate engraving by Charles Sherwin after the 1698 painting by T. Murray. On...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of Common electric ray (Torpedo torpedo) with old colouring. From Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. The torpedo or electric ray had been well know by...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration with old colouring of Barbary Macaque monkey (Macaca sylvanus) identified as 'Ein Aff' (An ape). From Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. The divi...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Black Rat (Rattus rattus), from Volume 1 Conrad Gesner's 1551 Historiae Animalium (here in his Icones Animalium 1560). The black rat's fleas are believed to have carried plague...

Paul D Stewart / Various mid to late 19th Century editions of Darwin's 'Journal of Researches' from his Beagle voyage. After the Origin of Species this book is Darwin's most numerously republished and widely read book...

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel towing its net at sunset in the North Sea. June 2007. ^^^Dawn and dusk are the best times for catching fish on the North Sea.

Rick Tomlinson / Four times Whitbread sailor and mountaineer, Skip Novak, climbing through an ice cave in Antarctica.

Angelo Giampiccolo / Fortess of the ancient town of Erice (Eryce, Eryx), in the northwest corner Sicily, Italy. ^^^The town has two castles: Pepoli and Venus, dating from Saracen times and Norman times respectively. There...

Angelo Giampiccolo / The rocky headland of Capo Caccia, 168m high, Alghero, Sardinia. ^^^It contains incredibly deep caves, and hosts rare species of flora and fauna on its surface. In ancient times Capo Caccia was known...

Roberto Rinaldi / Boundary wall of Lazzaretto Nuovo island, at the entrance of the Venetian lagoon. It has been used for controlling the water ways to inland since ancient times, Venice, Italy.

Onne van der Wal / Brant Point Lighthouse, the second lighthouse that the US established, it has been rebuilt several times, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

PREMAPHOTOS / Rocket frog (Litoria nasuta) with inflated throat sac, calling. A mosquito is sitting on its head. Queensland, Australia. Rocket frogs can jump 4m (over 100 times their own body length). They would wi...

Mark Moffett / Pilgrim who walked part-way around the sacred mountain and then passed three times under a waterfall

Erwan Quéméré / Baron Marcel Bich, who raced for the America's Cup four times in eleven years.