Heather Angel / Northern white cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) female standing in tree with baby aged two weeks. Parents captive bred and released. Wild Elephant Valley / Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, 2...

David Fleetham / Day / Big blue octopus (Octopus cyanea) with diver in background. Hawaii. September 2012.

Klein & Hubert / Outdoor free range domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) walking in mud, Germany.

Mark Taylor / Yellow Labrador Retriever puppy, 8 weeks old, sitting with raised paw

Edwin Giesbers / Blue-eyed / Sclater's black lemur (Eulemur flavifrons) male with arm on female's back, captive, endemic to Madagascar., Critically Endangered.

Cyril Ruoso / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) baby reaching up to mother's hand, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Eric Baccega / Men from the Mursi tribe decoratively scaring skin, one man scars the arm of another one by lifting the skin with an acacia spine and cutting it with a razor blade, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Solvin Zankl / Sargassumfish (Histrio histrio) swimming near Broad-toothed gulfweed (Sargassum fluitans) Sargassum Community. Sargasso Sea, Bermuda.

Anup Shah / Dusky leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus obscurus) in tree, one holding baby . Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Thailand.

Anup Shah / Dusky leaf monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) baby playing . Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Thailand.

Espen Bergersen / Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) two fighting in snow, Hornoya bird cliff, Finnmark, Norway. March.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Karo boys with decorative skin painting. Karo tribe, Omo river, Ethiopia, November 2014

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Karo boys with decorative skin painting. Karo tribe, Omo river, Ethiopia, November 2014

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Woman with stick at the Jumping of the bulls Hamer ceremony. This Hamer ceremony, is a right of passage into manhood for Hamer boys. During the ceremony young female relatives of the boys beg to be wh...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Karo boys with decorative skin painting.Territory of the Karo tribe. Omo river. Ethiopia, November 2014

Cyril Ruoso / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) foraging in river, Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Non-ex

Kristel Richard / Eagle hunter mounted on Mongolian horse with his female Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) at Eagle Hunters Festival, near Sagsai, Bayan-Ulgii Aymag, Mongolia. September 2014..

Andy Rouse / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) 11 month cubs play fighting, Ranthambhore National Park, India.

Dong Lei / Group of local children smiling, near Lantsang Mekong river, Kawakarpo Mountain, Meri Snow Mountain National Park, Yunnan Province, China.

Eric Baccega / Portrait of Naro San Bushman with leather headdress made of duiker skin, Kalahari, Ghanzi region, Botswana, Africa. October 2014.

Sue Daly / Spiny starfish (Marthasterias glacialis) moving its arms over the seabed, showing use of its tube feet, Sark, British Channel Islands, UK, August.

Nick Garbutt / Adult male Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema) 'skipping / dancing' across open ground between forest fragments, eastern Madagascar.

Nick Garbutt / Golden-crowned Sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli) leaping through forest canopy. Forests adjacent to the village of Andranotsimaty, near Daraina, northern Madagascar. Critically endangered species.

Jean E. Roche / Man leaping over bull in European Bullfighting Championship 2012, Arenes d'Arles, Camargue, France, September 2012.

Andy Rouse / Coquerel's Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) jumping, Palmarium Reserve, Madagascar

Andy Rouse / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mother and cub playing, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Honoured in the African wildlife category

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / West Coast Rock Lobster (Jasus lalandii) observed by diver. Kalk Bay, Atlantic Ocean, False Bay, Valsebaai, Western Cape, South Africa Model released.

Graham Eaton,Graham Eaton / A boy swimming crawl stroke in a pool, Egypt, September 2012. Model released

Mark Taylor / German Shepherd Dog bitch pup, Coco, 14 weeks old, with raised paw.

Konrad Wothe / Iceberg in Endicott Arm, Inside Passage, Southeast Alaska, USA, July 2006

Jurgen Freund / A fisherman who lost his arm dynamite fishing. Palawan, Phillipines, May 2009.

Brent Stephenson / Steep rock walls of the Tracy Arm, carved out by glacial action over millions of years. Alaska, United States, July 2010.

Florian Möllers / Baby male Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) "Klauce" (4 months) in the arm of his mother "Kalema". Budongo Forest Reserve, Masindi, Uganda, Africa. December

Jurgen Freund / Member of West Papuan dive boat crew free-swimming underwater. North Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, February 2010

Petra Wegner / British Shorthair Cat, kitten, golden-ticked-tabby, being administered ophthalmic ointment by a woman. Model released

Laurent Geslin / Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) perched on the arm of a classical stone statue, urban park, Paris, France, April.

Angelo Gandolfi / Looking upwards at rigging of British three masted Barque "Tenacious". Garibaldi Tall Ship Regatta, Genoa, Italy, April 2010.

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq / Inuit man hold his hand under the midnight sun in the Chukchi Sea, off shore from the arctic village of Barrow, Alaska, USA. April 2009

Nick Upton / Cleg fly / Horsefly (Haematopa pluvialis) sucking blood from photographer's arm, Wiltshire pastureland, UK, June.

Jeff Rotman / Dolphin trainer interacting with Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), Dolphin Reef, Eilat, Israel - Red Sea. Model released.

Edwin Giesbers / Juvenile Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) standing on hind legs, holding one arm. Endangered species. Captive; Apenheul zoo; the Netherlands.

David Woodfall / Young Bangladeshi with young brother in monsoon rain washing in pond, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, November 2008

Gabriel Rojo / RF- Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) Monte Leon National Park, Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. December. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Jouan & Rius / Small Chameleon hanging from a persons arm with one leg, South Madagascar

Jack Dykinga / Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) with new arm emerging from its trunk, Cabeza Prieta NW Refuge, Arizona, USA

Jeff Rotman / Scarlet Psolus Sea Cucumber (Psolus fabricii), feeding with arm in mouth. Bay of Fundy, Canada, Atlantic Ocean.

Kim Taylor / Mosquito (Aedes punctor) female resting after sucking blood from human arm. Sequence 4/4

Kim Taylor / Mosquito (Aedes punctor) female sucking blood from human arm. Sequence 3/4