Denis-Huot / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) baby playing with its mother. Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.

Mark MacEwen / Broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) baby in mothers mouth being carried from nest, Sante Fe, Argentina, February

XI ZHINONG / Phayre's leaf monkey (Trachypithecus phayrei), wild animal in tree, Endangered species, Gaoligong Mountains of Yunnan Province, China.

John Cancalosi / Axolotl / Mexican salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum), white or leucistic form, critically endangered in the wild, captive, native to Mexico

Michele Westmorland / Schooling fish around healthy reef system, Castle Rock, Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

Richard Du Toit / Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) head portrait, Limpopo Province, Pafuri, South Africa

Richard Du Toit / Red billed Quelea (Quelea quelea) blurred motion flock in flight, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, March 2012

George Sanker / American Buffalo / Bison (Bison bison) grazing in open plains. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, October.

Guy Edwardes / Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Naja mossambica) ejecting venom, Kruger, South South Africa, Controlled conditions

Guy Edwardes / Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Naja mossambica) ejecting venom Kruger, South Africa, Controlled conditions.

David Tipling / Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) walking across the sea ice of Weddell Sea, near Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, November

David Tipling / Emperor Penguins on sea ice with Kaptan Klebnikov ice breaker in background, Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, November

David Tipling / Emperor Penguins, (Aptenodytes forsteri), Weddell Sea, Antarctica

David Tipling / Person in purple coat photographing Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) at the Dawson-Lambton Glacier, Weddell Sea, Antarctica. No release available.

David Tipling / Emperor Penguins, (Aptenodytes forsteri), young huddling together to form a creche to keep warm, during storm, Dawson Lambton Glacier, Weddell Sea, Antarctica

David Tipling / Toddlers watching Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) swimming underwater at Zoo, UK, May 2008. Model released.

David Tipling / King Penguin, (Aptenodytes patagonicus) standing on beach, St Andrews Bay, South Georgia, January

David Tipling / King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony with chicks, Gold Harbour, South Georgia, November

David Tipling / Tourist photographing King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) Fortuna Bay, South Georgia, November 2006. No release available.

David Tipling / King Penguin, (Aptenodytes patagonicus), St Andrews Bay, South Georgia, January

David Tipling / King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on beach, Gold Harbour, South Georgia, November

David Tipling / Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) on blue iceberg, Antarctica

David Tipling / Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) group walking, Sea Lion Island, Falklands, November

David Tipling / Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) about to enter the sea, Brown Bluff Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, November

David Tipling / King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) group huddled together in blizzard, Right Whale Bay, South Georgia, November

David Tipling / King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) group huddled together in storm, Right Whale Bay, South Georgia, November

Markus Varesvuo / White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) mobbed by common gull (Larus canus) Flatanger, Norway, July

David Pattyn / Three Dalmatian Pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) portrait on lake. Lake Kerkini, Greece, March 2012.

David Pattyn / Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) close-up portrait. Lake Kerkini, Greece, March 2012.

Jeff Vanuga / Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) mating. Cuverville Island, Antarctica.

Jabruson / Mozambican children with captive Yellow Baboon (Papio cynocephalus) youngster, caught during troop crop raiding. Pemba to Montepuez highway, north-eastern Mozambique. No release available.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) standing in stream, Clwyd, Wales, UK, February.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) singing, Wirral, England, UK, May 2012

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Female Goosander (Mergus merganser) drying feathers, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, January.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Female whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) perched on bracken frond, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, June.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Male Goosander (Mergus merganser) flying over water, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, February.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Puffin (Fratercula arctica) with beak full of sandeels, Farne Islands, Northumberland, England, UK, July.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) perched on Hawthorn (Crataegus) twig, Cheshire, April.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Male Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) perched on moorland heather, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, June.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Common buzzard (Buteo buteo) perched on a gate post, Cheshire, England, UK, December.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Male Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) on the edge of a freshwater gravel pit, Hampshire, England, UK, April.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Curlew (Numenius arquata) on beach, Wirral, England, UK, December.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Badger (Meles meles) at night, Oxfordshire, England, UK, October.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / European hare (Lepus europaeus), smelling flowers in a graveyard, Landican Cemetery, Wirral, England, UK, August.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) perched on branch of a Rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia), with berries, Clwyd, Wales, UK, November. Did you know? The Rowan tree's old Celtic name was 'fid na ndruad' which mean...

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Corn bunting (Miliaria calandra) singing, Formby, Lancashire, England, UK, June.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) sitting in deciduous woodland, Lancashire, England, UK, November.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) sitting in deciduous woodland, Lancashire, England, UK, November.

Richard Steel / 2020VISION / Stoat (Mustela erminea) standing on rock in saltmarsh, Conwy, Wales, UK, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Male Ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula) on beach, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June. Did you know? When Plovers sense danger a parent bird will pretend to have a broken wing to distract predators.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Female Eider (Somateria mollissima) swimming on sea, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) on machair grassland, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Dunlin (Calidris alpina) perching on a rock, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Sanderling (Calidris alba) in breeding plumage, standing on shoreline, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June.

Andrew Parkinson / Male Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) displaying at photographer Andy Parkinson whilst on assignment for 2020VISION, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, March.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) bathing, Auckland Islands. New Zealand. November.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Fiordland crested penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) in foamy waves, Vulnerable species, Westland, New Zealand, November

Neil Aldridge / Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) standing and keeping watch while another excavates a burrow in soft sand before disappearing underground for the night. Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana, April.

Neil Aldridge / Young Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) standing on its hind legs near the edge of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana, April.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Male Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula), Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, February. Did you know? Goldeneyes forest ducks, which nest in trees.

Kevin Schafer / Galapagos Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) with Lava Lizard (Trpoidurus) on head. Fernandina island, Galapagos.

Kevin Schafer / Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus), adult female standing and sniffing air. Pantanal, Brazil, October.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) footprints in snow, Creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve, Scotland, UK, December 2012.

Ernie Janes / Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) against dark water, Felbrigg, Norfolk, November

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus). Pencil and watercolor painting.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Redshank (Tringa totanus) calling in flight, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on upland plateau, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, August.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on upland plateau, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, August.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Close-up of the nose of a Highland cow (Bos taurus) Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, April.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) perched on branch, holding stick in its foot, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, July.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) fishing, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, July.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) at surface of a loch after diving for a fish, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, July.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) with fish prey on feeding perch, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, July.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) eating fish prey, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, July.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Redshank (Tringa totanus) in flight, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June.

Hermann Brehm / Red-and-Green Macaw (Ara chloropterus), Mato Grosso do sul, Brazil

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of human evolution from left to right Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Homo erectus and Homo sapiens. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Staffan Widstrand / Brunnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia) stretching wings and calling on small ice floe, Svalbard, Norway, July

Staffan Widstrand / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) mobbed by possibly a Skua, Svalbard, Norway, July

Staffan Widstrand / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) head portrait with blue tongue out, Svalbard, Norway

Uri Golman / White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) mother and calf browsing. Entabeni Safari Conservancy, Limpopo region, Waterberg, South Africa, October

Paul Hobson / Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) on barley cereal, Yorkshire, UK Captive

Paul Hobson / Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) two fighting in the air, Scotland, UK July

Anup Shah / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) sub-adult male yawning, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Ann & Steve Toon / Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) on savanna, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya

Ann & Steve Toon / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) large family group on migration, Amboseli National Park, Kenya

Fiona Rogers / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) sub-adult male head portrait, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fiona Rogers / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) mature male head and shoulders portrait, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fiona Rogers / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) sub-adult male head portrait, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fiona Rogers / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) baby less than 1 month old in mothers arms, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fiona Rogers / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) female head and shoulders standing portrait, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fiona Rogers / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) two individuals greeting, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fiona Rogers / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) female with suckling infant aged 9-12 months, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Anup Shah / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) juvenile sitting on a tree, wet from playing in the river, wide angle perspective, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Anup Shah / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) 'Alpha' baby female aged about 1 month hanging upside down in a tree, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.