Luciano Candisani / Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) female constricting male after copulation, after which she will consume him, Brazil

Juergen Freund / Anthea Melsen smiles shyly as she comes out of the water after looking at her grandfather's coral and clam gardens, Onma Lodge, Kolombangara, Western Province, Solomon Islands, July 2010

Doug Gimesy / Jacky Hunt, specialist in bird rescue and rehabilitation, with two Boobook owls (Ninox boobook), which she is providing temporary accommodation for in her factory. These birds were evacuated from the...

Doug Gimesy / Jacky Hunt, a specialist in bird rescue and rehabilitation, with two Boobook owls (Ninox boobook), which she is providing temporary accommodation for in her factory. These birds were evacuated from th...

Doug Gimesy / Jacky Hunt, specialist in bird rescue and rehabilitation, with two Kookoaburras (Dacelo sp.) which she is providing temporary accommodation for in her factory. These birds were evacuated from the Wal...

Doug Gimesy / Jacky Hunt, specialist in bird rescue and rehabilitation, with a Boobook Owls (Ninox boobook), which she is providing temporary accommodation for in her factory. These birds were evacuated from the W...

Doug Gimesy / Sue Swain looks at the bush fire victim koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) named 'Sooty' who she has just applied burn cream to. 'Sooty' was very badly burnt during the Taree bushfires...

Doug Gimesy / ?Sue Swain gives a bush fire victim koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) named 'Sooty', a dietary supplement in her garage (where she keeps this koala being cared for). ??Sooty' was very badly burnt during...

Charlie Summers / American badger (Taxidea taxus) female with Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) prey she is taking to her cubs in their burrow. Custer State Park, South Dakota, USA. July.

Charlie Summers / American badger (Taxidea taxus) female with Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) prey she is taking to her cubs in their burrow. Custer State Park, South Dakota, USA. July.

Shane Gross / Unknown species of pelagic swimming crab, covered in barnacles swimming in the open ocean at night. She is tending to her eggs in a pouch. Anilao, Philippines.

Nick Garbutt / Jaguar (Panthera onca) female stealthily entering the river as she begins to hunt caiman. Northern Pantanal Cuiaba River, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Cyril Ruoso / Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) infant suckling. The infant is wet because it was carried by its mother on her belly when she is foraging on the intertidal zone looking for seashells....

Cyril Ruoso / Long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) female eating crab claw, with baby with wet fur. The infant's fur is wet as it was carried on underside of mother whilst she was foraging on the shore. Koram...

Alex Mustard / Rhinoceros triplefin (Helcogramma rhinoceros) male displaying his dark mating colours and lifts his extended snout to impress a more drably coloured female as she lays eggs in their nest. Seraya, Tula...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) female carrying infant as she climbs between trees and lianas, Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, UNSECO World Heritage site, November.

Wild Shots Outreach / Pupil Prisence Mashaba showing the photo she has just taken on the back of her camera, during residential photography course organised by Wild Shots Outreach. Kruger National Park, South Africa, June.

Jose B. Ruiz / Shepherds painting red onto underside of male sheep. When he mates with a female she will have a red mark on her fleece, showing that she has been mated. Torres del Paine. Patagonia, Puerto Natales, C...

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) close up of adult female fluke, she had the unusual habit of resting upside-down, with the ventral surface of her fluke to the sky, Vavau, Tonga, South Pacific

Alex Mustard / Saddleback anemonefish (Amphiprion polymnus) female barks as she guards her clutch of eggs, laid beneath her host anemone. Anilao, Batangas, Luzon, Philippines. Verde Island Passages, Tropical West Pa...

Eric Baccega / Himba woman adjusting her traditional 'Omohanga' foot ornament, a 21 strand layered anklet, indicating if she is married and has children, Marienfluss Valley. Kaokoland, Namibia October 2015

Eric Baccega / Himba woman adjusting her traditional 'Omohanga' foot ornament, a 21 strand layered anklet, indicating if she is married and has children, Marienfluss Valley. Kaokoland, Namibia October 2015

Eric Baccega / Himba woman threading metal beads to adjust her traditional 'Omohanga' foot ornament, a 21 strand layered anklet, indicating if she is married and has children, Marienfluss Valley. Kaokoland, Namibia...

Eric Baccega / Close-up of traditional Himba woman foot ornaments - 'Omohanga', a 21 strand layered anklet made with metal beads, indicating if she is married and has children, Marienfluss Valley. Kaokoland, Namibia...

Eric Baccega / Himba woman hairstyle with crest known as 'Erembe', indicating that she is married Marienfluss Valley. Kaokoland; Namibia October 2015

Eric Baccega / Himba women braiding each other's hair. Note the traditional head ornament known as 'Erembe', indicating that she is married, Kaokoland, Namibia October 2015

Eric Baccega / Himba woman hair decoration, known as 'Erembe', indicating that she is married, Kaokoland, Namibia October 2015

Richard Du Toit / South African Giraffe (Giraffa giraffa giraffa) male licking tail of female to see if she is in heat, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Richard Du Toit / South African Giraffe (Giraffa giraffa giraffa) male smelling female to see if she is in heat, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Portrait of female farm worker planting Onions (Allium cepa) on Suikerbossie farm, Koue Bokkeveld / Cedarberg region, South Africa. She has onions tucked into her hood to keep the flying insects away,...

Nick Upton / Long-nosed Grasshopper (Truxalis nasuta) attempting to mate with much larger female as she lays eggs in dried out marsh, Crete, Greece, May.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Himba woman with head dress which shows that she is married, Kaokoland, Namibia, September 2013.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Himba woman with head dress which shows that she is married, Kaokoland, Namibia, September 2013.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / A male giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) tries to reproduce with a female, as she tries to escape. Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Male Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) trying to mate with female, as she attempts to escape, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Male Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) trying to mate with female, as she attempts to escape, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Male Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) trying to mate with female, as she attempts to escape, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Male Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) trying to mate with female, as she attempts to escape, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Male Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardis) trying to mate with female, as she attempts to escape, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Fiona Rogers / Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) baby aged 1 month sitting with its mother while she is groomed. Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Apr 2013.

Alex Mustard / Female Veined octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) broods her eggs, wrapped in her arms, while she lies protected in an old giant clam shell. Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Sulawesi Sea.

Anup Shah / Celebes / Black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) female with swelling of sexual skin to indicate she is in estrus, Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Steven Kazlowski / Moose (Alces alces) newborn calves nursing from their mother as she forages on willow leaves. Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, Anchorage, south-central Alaska, May.

Steven Kazlowski / Moose (Alces alces) cow nursing a newborn calf as she keeps a watchful eye out for other moose. Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, Anchorage, south-central Alaska, May.

Steven Kazlowski / Moose (Alces alces) newborn calves nurse from their mother as she forages on willow leaves. Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, Anchorage, south-central Alaska, May.

Steven Kazlowski / Moose (Alces alces) newborn calves sucking from their mother as she forages on spring willow leaves. Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, Anchorage, south-central Alaska, May.

Roland Seitre / Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) baby at its mother's pouch; she is being held by a park ranger. Captive. Gosford, New South Wales, Australia.

Rick Tomlinson / Flags aboard "Telefonica Black" as she arrives in Cape Town in 8th (last) place with a broken rudder and bow sprit, November 2008. Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. For EDITORIAL USE only.

Rick Tomlinson / Close up of "Puma" sail as she rounds the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, during the 10th Volvo Ocean Race (2008-2009), October 23rd 2008. For EDITORIAL USE only.

Rick Tomlinson / The sun reflected on SY "Adele"'s boom as she leaves South Georgia bound for Rio de Janeiro, February 2007 Non editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Rick Tomlinson / Evening sailing onboard SY "Adele", 180 foot Hoek Design, as she sails north from South Georgia to Rio de Janeiro, February 2007 Non editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Jeff Rotman / Red paint covers the top half of a Matses woman's face, and she wears decorative spines on both sides of her nose. This makeup represents the whiskers of the jaguar spirit. Amazon, Peru, November 2005...

Jeff Rotman / Red paint covers the top half of a Matses woman's face, and she wears decorative spines on both sides of her nose. This makeup represents the whiskers of the jaguar spirit. Amazon, Peru, November 200...

Jeff Rotman / Red and black paint covers a Matses woman's face, and she wears decorative spines on both sides of her nose. This makeup represents the whiskers of the jaguar spirit. Amazon, Peru, November 2005.

Jeff Rotman / Red and black paint covers a Matses woman's face, and she wears decorative spines on both sides of her nose. This makeup represents the whiskers of the jaguar spirit. Amazon, Peru, November 2005.

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani Indian woman. She has the typical stretched ear lobes common amoung the Huaorani. They often wear balsa ear plugs. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Mo...

Pete Oxford / Portrait of a Huaorani Indian woman. She has the typical stretched ear lobes common amoung the Huaorani. They often wear balsa ear plugs. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, June 2007. Mo...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman with achiote face paint. She has the typical stretched ear lobes common amoung the Huaorani. They often wear balsa ear plugs. Gabaro Community, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, Jun...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani woman making chicha, an alcoholic beverage. She has removed her false teeth to chew the yuca (casava). She then spits it into the pot for boiling and it will then be left to ferment for a fe...

Pete Oxford / Huaorani woman making chicha, an alcoholic beverage. She has removed her false teeth to chew the yuca (casava). She then spits it into the pot for boiling and it will then be left to ferment for a fe...

Mark Taylor / Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) female on rotting wood that she has pecked in search of insect food. Argentina, South America, March.

Charlie Summers / Pronghorn Antelope (Antilocapra americana) Buck (right) chasing Doe (left) to guard her until she comes into estrous. Image taken in Custer State Park, South Dakota, USA

Tim Laman / A pet female Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus) keeps a woman company as she does the washing in Kabilo Village, Mayalibit Bay. This is an area of Waigeo Island visited by Alfred Russel Wallace in the...

Tim Laman / Orangutan researcher Cheryl Knott shows her young son (both model released) a data sheet where she records behavioral data on wild Orangutans. Borneo, July 2007

Mark Moffett / Ant (Thaumatomyrmex sp) worker using her long-toothed mandibles to hold her bristly millipede prey while she strips off its hairs before eating, Tiputini, Ecuador

Rick Tomlinson / Hourglass dolphins (Lagenorhynchus cruciger) play alongside SY "Adele", 180 foot Hoek Design, off the coast of South Georgia as she sails north for Rio de Janeiro, February 2007.

Rick Tomlinson / Hourglass dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger) plays alongside SY "Adele", 180 foot Hoek Design, off the coast of South Georgia as she sails north for Rio de Janeiro, February 2007.

Elio Della Ferrera / Yellow baby Dusky Leaf Monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) holding onto mother whilst she climbs a tree trunk, Thailand 1996

PREMAPHOTOS / Elegant grasshopper (Zonocerus elegans) pair, male guarding female as she oviposits into the ground, warning colouration, savanna habitat, South Africa

Pete Oxford / Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) in Kapok tree where she has her nest, Aguarico river drainage system. Amazon Rain Forest, Ecuador. Critically endangered

Pete Oxford / Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) in Kapok tree where she has her nest, Aguarico river drainage system. Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Critically endangered

Anup Shah / Female Sumatran Orang utan 'Edita' (Pongo abelii) in cage eating banana containing tranquiliser so that stolen baby 'Forester' can be taken from her. Gunung Leuser NP, Sumatra, Indonesia. Edita snatch...

Martin Dohrn / Quechua woman spins Llama wool as she walks on the altiplano, Bolivia

Claus Meyer / South American River Turtle (Podocnemis expansa) female near nest where she has laid her eggs, Amazon, Brazil

Fred Bavendam / Spotted Box Crab (Calappa philargius) male using his claws to grasp a female he will mate with when she is ready, Lembeh Strait, Indonesia

Fred Bavendam / Pharaoh Cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) male hanging over a female he has mated with, to ward off rival males, while she lays eggs, Andaman Sea, Burma

Fred Bavendam / Pharaoh Cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) male hanging over a female he has mated with, to ward off rival males, while she lays eggs, Andaman Sea, Burma

Fred Bavendam / Pharaoh Cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) male hanging over a female he has mated with, to ward off rival males, while she lays eggs, Andaman Sea, Burma

Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sexdens) queen, lives for 20 years, each colony has only one queen that mates only at the start of her life, collecting all the sperm needed to produce millions of workers, when s...

Mark Moffett / Meadow Froghopper (Philaenus spumarius) young queen entering hole she's chiseled inside Cecropia tree, carrying food grown by the tree, Peru

Onne van der Wal / The wrecked coaling ship "Bayard" lying in Ocean Harbour, South Georgia. ^^^She was blown from her mooring during a severe gale in 1911 and is now a nesting ground for cormorants and petrels.

Onne van der Wal / The wrecked coaling ship "Bayard" lying in Ocean Harbour, South Georgia. ^^^She was blown from her mooring during a severe gale in 1911 and is now a nesting ground for cormorants and petrels.

Onne van der Wal / The wrecked coaling ship "Bayard" lying in Ocean Harbour, South Georgia. ^^^She was blown from her mooring during a severe gale in 1911 and is now a nesting ground for cormorants and petrels.

Onne van der Wal / The wrecked coaling ship "Bayard" lying in Ocean Harbour, South Georgia. ^^^She was blown from her mooring during a severe gale in 1911 and is now a nesting ground for cormorants and petrels.

Rick Tomlinson / "Stella-R" skippered by South African Neal Peterson during the Europe 1 Star in 1992. ^^^She finished 45th overall in 28d 17h 54m.

Onne van der Wal / Two men in wet-weather gear helming 88ft sloop "Shaman" as she motors through Fjordland, South Island, New Zealand 2001

Premaphotos / Dung-roller beetle (Canthon sp) rolling an (Atta bisphaerica) Leafcutter ant queen as if she were a dung ball, in campo cerrado, Brazil

Premaphotos / Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria fera) female guarding her egg-sac, which she has camouflaged with bits of dead leaf. A very poisonous genus of spider, in rainforest, Brazil

Premaphotos / Cicada killer wasp (Sphecius speciosus) female digging her burrow in which she will deposit Cicada prey, South Carolina, USA.

Bruce Thomson / Glossy black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) female with yellow patches on head feeding in tree, feeds exclusively on Casuarina (Casuarina equisetifolia) seeds, Capertee, New South Wales, Australia...

Robert Valentic / Mainland she-oak skink (Cyclodomorphus michaeli) from Nowra, southern New South Wales, Australia, Controlled conditions.

Maxime Aliaga / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female with infant. The female Marconi had been rehabilited by SOCP program. She had a baby in 2017 born in the forest of Jantho, Aceh province where she was been rel...

Maxime Aliaga / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female with infant. The female Marconi had been rehabilited by the SOCP program. She had a baby in 2017 in the forest of Jantho, Aceh province where she had been rele...

Maxime Aliaga / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female with infant. The female Marconi had been rehabilited by SOCP program. She had a baby in 2017 born in the forest of Jantho, Aceh province where she was been rel...

Maxime Aliaga / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female with infant. The female Marconi had been rehabilitated by SOCP program. She had a baby in 2017 born in the forest of Jantho, Aceh province where she had been r...

Eric Baccega / Black and white photograph from the early 1950s showing a Kayan Lahwi woman aged 13, when she started to wear the coils.The Long Neck Kayan (also called Padaung in Burmese) are a sub-group of the Kare...