Mark Payne-Gill / Three banded armadillo {Tolypeutes tricinctus} uncurling from defensive ball

Mark Payne-Gill / Three banded armadillo {Tolypeutes tricinctus} walking Captive, UK

Andy Murch / Red stingray (Hemitrygon akajei) with Banded houndshark (Triakis scyllium) group and smaller fish in background. Chiba Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. September.

Andy Murch / Banded houndshark (Triakis scyllium) group above sea floor. Chiba Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. October.

Marie Lochman / Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) Wheatbelt Region, Western Australia

Nick Upton / White-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis) crawling over an oak sleeper retaining a garden lawn with a greenhouse in the background, Wiltshire, UK, April.

Nick Upton / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) nectaring on a Crab apple (Malus sylvestnis) flower in a garden, Wiltshire, UK, April.

Robert Valentic / Golden tree snake (Chrysopelea ornata) male, Patong Beach, Phuket Island, Thailand. Controlled conditions

Shane Gross / Clark's Anemonefish (Amphiprion clarkii) tending to her eggs. Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea

Fred Olivier / Clark's anemonefish (Amphiprion clarkii) and Three spot damselfish (Dascyllus trimaculatus) swimming around anemone (Stichodactyla), Nusatupe Lagoon, Solomon Islands.

Clay Bolt / Blue-banded bee (Amegilla sp) males sleeping on stem. Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia.

Ross Hoddinott / RF - Banded demoiselles (Calopteryx splendens) male roosting among grasses, silhouetted against the sun reflected in the water, Lower Tamar Lakes, Cornwall, UK. July. (This image may be licensed eithe...

Ross Hoddinott / Banded demoiselles (Calopteryx splendens) male, roosting among grasses, silhouetted against the sun reflected in the water, Lower Tamar Lakes, Cornwall, UK. July.

Ross Hoddinott / Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) male, resting on grass head, Lower Tamar Lakes, Cornwall, UK. June.

Luke Massey / Seven banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus) Pantanal, Brazil.

Konrad Wothe / Chub (Squalius cephalus) trying to catch a Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens), Bavaria, Germany, June.

David Fleetham / Clark's anemonefish (Amphiprion clarkii), pair tending to egg mass placed beside the protection of an anemone. Yap, Micronesia.

Ross Hoddinott / Male banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens), resting on flower head, Lower Tamar Lakes, Cornwall, UK. June.

Theo Bosboom / Banded demoiselles (Calopteryx splendens) pair still clasped together after mating, with two males resting nearby, the Netherlands, July.

Theo Bosboom / Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) male finding a place to roost, in common nettle, Roosendaal, the Netherlands. July.

Theo Bosboom / Banded demoiselles (Calopteryx splendens) males roosting among common nettles, Roosendaal, the Netherlands. July.

Theo Bosboom / Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) at sunrise, resting in the Common nettle, Roosendaal, the Netherlands. July.

Theo Bosboom / Close up of Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) wings, Roosendaal, the Netherlands, July.

Jordi Chias / Red Sea anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) in their home, a Sea anemone (Heteractis magnifica), on a coral reef. Big Brother island, Red Sea. Egypt.

Dave Bevan / Female Giant wood wasp (Uroceras gigas) inserting ovipositor into tree stump to lay eggs, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, September.

Tui De Roy / Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) Isla Tortuga, Isabela Island, Galapagos

Phil Savoie / Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) flying to Purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, July.

Jack Dykinga / Banded Navajo Sandstone slot canyon in the Escalante Canyon complex. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA.

Jack Dykinga / Petrified sand dunes at sunrise with rain-filled 'pot holes' and banded sandstone in foreground. Vermilion Cliffs National Monument,Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA.

Edwin Giesbers / Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) males resting on grass, Netherlands, August.

Edwin Giesbers / RF - Banded darter (Sympetrum pedemontanum) group of five resting, Netherlands, September. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Edwin Giesbers / RF - Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) two males resting, Netherlands, August. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Ingo Arndt / Land snail / Brown-lipped snail (Cepaea nemoralis) crawling over a razor blade. The constantly produced mucus is a protection shield between the sole of the snail and the razor blade whilst the snail...

Neil Aldridge / African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) preening themselves on rocks at the Boulders Beach colony near Cape Town, South Africa.

Fred Olivier / Group of Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) displaying on a beach, Gypsy Cove, Stanley, Falkland Islands.

Fred Olivier / Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) displaying on a beach, Gypsy Cove, Stanley, Falkland Islands.

Bence Mate / Collared aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) squabbling with Montezuma oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) Costa Rica.

Bence Mate / Collared aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) two perched, possibly courtship feeding, Costa Rica.

Wim van den Heever / Bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata) portrait of female, Pantanal, Brazil.

Ann & Steve Toon / Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) drinking, Zimanga Private Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, May

Steve Downer / Grove snail / brown lipped snail (Cepaea nemoralis) with juvenile riding on its back, Birmingham UK June.

Edwin Giesbers / Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) group of four on plant stems, River Leijgraaf, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August 2013. Finalist in the Invertebrate category of the Wildlife Photographer of th...

Steve Downer / Banded snail (Cepaea nemoralis) on rear of a backlit rose leaf, controlled conditions.

Pete Oxford / Galapagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) diving through shoal of fish, Galapagos. Endemic.

Jurgen Freund / Banded archerfish (Toxotes jaculatrix) spitting, Oolioo Sandbar, Territory Wildlife Park, Berry Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Banded sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina) around the roots of mangrove tree, split level. Mali Island, Macuata Province, Fiji, South Pacific.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) group underwater, Galapagos. Endemic.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) profile portrait, Falkland Islands, November.