Mitsuaki Iwago / Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) mother giving birth, Serengeti

Konrad Wothe / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) females tending to newborn calf, Kenya

Norbert Wu / Spotted Seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) male who has just given birth to babies, surrounded by his offspring

Norbert Wu / Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) mother and newborn pup, Antarctica

Hiroya Minakuchi / Ice falling off glacier, Alaska

Michele Westmorland / Northern / lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) male after birthing a pouch full of babies. St Vincent, West-Indies, Caribbean, May.

Michele Westmorland / Northern / lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) male after birthing a pouch full of babies. St Vincent, West-Indies, Caribbean, May.

Winfried Wisniewski / Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) female giving birth to calf, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Hiroya Minakuchi / Calving glacier, Alaska

Ingo Arndt / Pea Aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) giving birth, Germany

Hiroya Minakuchi / Glacier calving, Alaska

Konrad Wothe / Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) birthing, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile