Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) being washed to remove the oil that coats it feathers. After it will be hand reared in rehabilitation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal B...

Terry Whittaker / Washing Common murre / guillemot (Uria aalge) eggs in sink before sale. Foraged from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Terry Whittaker / Washing Common murre / guillemot (Uria aalge) eggs in sink before sale. Foraged from Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs, Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. May 2018.

Ashley Cooper / Women washing clothes in a river near Chikwawa in the Shire Valley, Malawi.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Biologist washing freshly fertilised Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) eggs, an important part of the process preventing them from getting smothered, Sandbank Hatchery, Glenlivet, Moray, Scotland, Novembe...

Nick Upton / Samantha Pickering washing a Brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) that was brought to her rescue centre stuck to flypaper in a bathroom sink to help free it, Barnstaple, Devon, UK, October 2015. Mo...

Nick Upton / Samantha Pickering carefully washing a Brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) after peeling off the flypaper it was stuck to, Barnstaple, Devon, UK, October 2015. Model released.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Ituri river, near Bomili village, with people washing clothes on right hand side, Ituri forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, December 2011.

Shattil & Rozinski / Raccoon (Procyon lotor) washing its paws, Colorado, USA, April.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) having a wash to remove oil from feathers, during hand rearing and rehabilitation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Cape...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) having a wash to remove oil from feathers, during hand rearing and rehabilitation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Cape...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) having a wash to remove oil from feathers, during hand rearing and rehabilitation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Cape...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape Gannet (Morus capensis) being washed to remove oil from feathers, in rehabilitation at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). Cape Town, South Africa. De...

Suzi Eszterhas / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) joey sick with a urinary tract infection being bathed by Senior Widlife Officer Kate Mearn, Dreamworld, Queensland, Australia

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Little Blue Penguin (Eudyptula minor) being washed after rescue from collapsed nest burrow, Phillip Island, Australia

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Little Blue Penguin (Eudyptula minor) being washed after rescued from collapsed nest burrow, Phillip Island, Australia

Ashley Cooper / Fish fry being returned to the river after washing over river banks and getting stranded during floods, River Brathay, Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. July.

Ashley Cooper / Fish fry being returned to the river after washing over river banks and getting stranded during floods, River Brathay, Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. July.