Cyril Ruoso / Volunteer feeding young Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Pandrillus Sanctury Rehabilitation Centre, Nigeria.

Staffan Widstrand / Spoon billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) standing in shallow water, Siberia, Russia, critically endangered

Ashley Cooper / Woman with solar cooker used to cook food for the school students at Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, near Vadodara, India. December.

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) mother giving pup Fat Inkeeper Worm (Urechis unicinctus) prey to feed on, Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, California

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) five year old juvenile male named Fanwwaa using leaves as spoon to scoop water from tree cavity, Bossou, Guinea. Sequence 4 of 4

Gerrit Vyn / Shellfish harvesters on the mudflats at Rudong, China. Besides being important to human livelihoods these mudflats are the last remaining place in the Yellow Sea where the critically endangered Spoon-...

Gerrit Vyn / Chinese bird photographers on the Rudong mudlfats in pursuit of critically endangered species Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) There is a general lack of knowledge about proper ethics around...

Ernie Janes / Great desert spoon (Dasylirion acrotrichum) growing in garden.

Kerstin Hinze / Hand raised Fat / Edible dormouse (Glis glis) feeding from a spoon with squashed banana and kitten milk formula, Captive, occurs in Europe.

Brent Stephenson / Adult Royal spoonbill (Platalea regia) in non-breeding plumage, showing the distinctive spoon-shaped bill. Manawatu Estuary, Manawatu, New Zealand, September.

Onne van der Wal / Person eating ginger yoghurt in the Grenadines, Caribbean, February 2010. Editorial use only.

Tony Phelps / Spoon flower or Lippypie (Gladiolus cunonius) DeHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Late 19th Century Nenets tobacco box made from mammoth ivory, with a small metal spoon. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia.

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) attracting damselflies to prey upon, Bavaria, Germany

Chien Lee / Spoon-Leaf Sundew (Drosera spathulata) flowering, Bako National Park, Malaysia

Juan Manuel Borrero / Palm weevil / Suri larvae (Rhynchophorus palmarum), cooked and for sale in a bowl with spoon. Market of Belen. Iquitos. Loreto. Peru October 2009

Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) feeding on Fat Innkeeper Worm (Urechis caupo), Monterey Bay, California

Suzi Eszterhas / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) feeding on Fat Innkeeper Worm (Urechis caupo), Monterey Bay, California

Fred Bavendam / Spoon Worm (Metabonellia haswelli), Edithburgh, Australia

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) juvenile tossing plastic spoon up in the air, Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, California

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) juvenile with plastic spoon in bill, Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, California

Jose B. Ruiz / Jar of honey and honey comb from Honey bee {Apis mellifera} on plate with spoon, Spain

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Spoon billed sandpiper {Calidris pygmaea}, in winter plumage stretching wing, Samut Sakhon, Thailand

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Spoon billed sandpiper {Calidris pygmaea}, winter plumage in water, Samut Sakhon, Thailand

Jan Vermeer / Damselfly trapped in carnivorous Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia), Europe

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) feeding on Fat Inkeeper Worm (Urechis unicinctus), Monterey Bay, California

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) five year old juvenile male named Fanwwaa using leaves as spoon to scoop water from tree cavity, Bossou, Guinea. Sequence 3 of 4

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) five year old juvenile male named Fanwwaa using leaves as spoon to scoop water from tree cavity, Bossou, Guinea. Sequence 2 of 4

Cyril Ruoso / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) five year old juvenile male named Fanwwaa using leaves as spoon to scoop water from tree cavity, Bossou, Guinea. Sequence 1 of 4

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Konrad Wothe / Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) with dew which attracts and catches prey, Bavaria, Germany

Staffan Widstrand / Spoon billed sandpiper {Calidris pygmaea} Siberia Russia

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon head catfish (Planiloricaria cryptodon) portrait, Dallas World Aquarium. Captive, occurs in South America.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon head catfish (Planiloricaria cryptodon) head portrait, Dallas World Aquarium. Captive, occurs in South America.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon head catfish (Planiloricaria cryptodon) head portrait, Dallas World Aquarium. Captive, occurs in South America.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon head catfish (Planiloricaria cryptodon) portrait, Dallas World Aquarium. Captive, occurs in South America.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with prey in beak, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertak...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with prey in beak, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertak...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) catching insect prey, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project under...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) feeding, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with prey in beak, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertak...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with insect prey in beak, portrait. One of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part of wider work to save this species, Wildfowl...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) portrait. One of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part of wider work to save this species, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbri...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) portrait. One of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part of wider work to save this species, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbri...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with insect prey in beak, portrait. One of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part of wider work to save this species, Wildfowl...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) feeding, portrait. One of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part of wider work to save this species, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trus...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpipers (Calidris pygmaea) eating crickets on the ground. The birds repeatedly walk in and out of the frame. These individuals are a part of a captive rearing program to save this spec...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) profile, walking into frame and eating crickets on the ground before exiting frame, captive rearing project, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) Slimbridge, Gl...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) profile, eating crickets on the ground and walking around before exiting frame, captive rearing project, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, Gloucestershi...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Sausage worm (Lissomyema mellita) on black background, Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Chris Mattison / Spoon-leaved sundew (Drosera spatulata) carnivorous plant, close up.

Suzi Eszterhas / Blue plastic items including spoon, bottle tops and cigarette lighter gathered by male Satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) at bower. Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. 2015.