Jurgen Freund / Wildlife carer Margit Cianelli holding Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) orphan, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. Model released.

Jurgen Freund / Wildlife carer Margit Cianelli with juvenile Lumholtz kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) with radio collar. The tree kangaroo has a radio collar to allow her to explore her forest surroundings ready for...

Jurgen Freund / Margit Cianelli wildlife carer with young Lumholtz kangaroos (Dendrolagus lumholtzi), one with a radio collar. The tree kangaroo has a radio collar to allow her to explore her forest surroundings read...

Jurgen Freund / Wildlife carer Margit Cianelli with young year old Lumholtz tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) with radio collar. This kangaroo was raised by Magrit who allows the juvenile to explore the forest re...

Jurgen Freund / Margit Cianelli with Lumholtz tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) 'Kimberley', a kangaroo she raised from a baby, now living in nearby forest with her own joey. Lumholtz Lodge, Atherton Tabl...

Jurgen Freund / Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) orphan babies, sleeping on hot water bottle, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Timelapse of a Strangler fig (Ficus virens) at night lit by the moon, known as the Curtain Fig Tree, this individual is over 500 years old, Atherton Tablelands, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Queens...

Jurgen Freund / Timelapse from day to night of bioluminescent fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis / Pleurotus nidiformis) on a tree trunk, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Hand-reared Boongary (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) feeding in a kitchen, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Hand-reared Boongary (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) descending from a tree and climbing onto its carer's back, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Large scale agricultural irrigation of a vegetable farm, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Male Tooth-billed bowerbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris) removing yellow leaves from his bower, leaving only green leaves turned over on the ground, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) flying from roosting tree at dusk, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Large group of Little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) flying at dusk, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Large group of Little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) flying at dusk, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Colony of Little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) at roost, with several bats flying in, landing on others on a branch, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Colony of Little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) leaving roost site, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / Little red flying fox (Pteropus scapulatus) roosting with baby, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. May. Second Place in the Man and Nature portfolio category of the Terre Sauvage Nature Image...

Jurgen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) feeding on nectar from flowers of the Golden penda (Xanthostemon chrysanthus), Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. June. Second Place in the Man...

Jurgen Freund / Little red flying-fox (Pteropus scapulatus) flying around and roosting in trees, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. December. Second Place in the Man and Nature portfolio category of the Terr...

Jurgen Freund / Paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) with engorged body on human hand, this species affects many species, Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) among them and infects them with a toxin that ca...

Jurgen Freund / Tolga Bat Hospital volunteer handing Little red flying fox (Pteropus scapulatus) baby as it flaps her wings, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. May 2015. Second Place in t...

Jurgen Freund / Tolga Bat Hospital director Jenny Maclean rescuing, Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) caught in barbed wire fence. Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. April 2015. Second Place i...

Jurgen Freund / Tolga Bat Hospital volunteer with Little red flying fox (Pteropus scapulatus) crawling over shoulder. Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. August 2014. Second Place in the M...

Jurgen Freund / Bioluminescent fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis / Pleurotus nidiformis) glowing on tree trunk in rainforest at night, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia,

Jurgen Freund / Stars facing north towards constellation Perseus with Perseid meteor shower, above farming fields in the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland. August 14, 2013 4am, composite image.

Jurgen Freund / Sarus Cranes (Grus antigone) Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia

Jurgen Freund / Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps) feeding on sap from a tree trunk. Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia

Tim Laman/Nat Geo Image Collection / Victoria's Riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae) male on display perch trying to lure a female to come down with his spread wings display, Atherton Tablelands, Wooroonooran National Park, Queensland, Austral...

Jurgen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies swaddled up in cloth ready to sleep, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

Jurgen Freund / Crate of Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies just arrived by plane from Brisbane after months of care, ready to be returned to the Tolga Bat Hospital for release back to the wild, A...

Jurgen Freund / Spectacled flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) inside enclosure, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

Jurgen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies swaddled in cloth ready to sleep, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

Konrad Wothe / Victoria's riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae) male displaying in rainforest, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October

Konrad Wothe / Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera priamus) male on fern leaf and Blue Mountain Swallowtail butterfly in flight, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October

Konrad Wothe / Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) sitting on branch in rainforest, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October

Konrad Wothe / Strangler Fig Tree (Ficus virens) beside water in rainforest, Lake Eacham NP, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October 2010

Konrad Wothe / Looking up the roots of a Strangler / Curtain Fig Tree (Ficus virens) rainforest, Curtain Fig Tree NP, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October

Kevin Schafer / Southern / Double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) wild, chick moving through rainforest, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, November

Kevin Schafer / Southern / Double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) wild, adult male rear view, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, November

Kevin Schafer / Southern / Double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) wild, adult male rear view, neck feathers, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, November

Kevin Schafer / Southern / Double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) wild, adult male with chick in rainforest, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, November

Kevin Schafer / Southern / Double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) wild, adult male feeding on mushroom from tree trunk, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, November

Kevin Schafer / Southern / Double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) wild, adult male portrait, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, November

Tim Laman / Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus minor) male displays to a female who has entered his bower. This bower is decorated with all natural objects. Rainforest of the Atherton Tablelands, Queensl...

Kevin Schafer / Southern / Australian / Double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) male, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, Wild, Vulnerable species

Tim Laman / Male Victoria's Riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae) bird of paradise perched, calling on display perch. Atherton Tablelands, Wooroonooran National Park, Queensland, Australia.

Tim Laman / Orange / Red eyed treefrog (Litoria chloris) in the rainforest of the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia