Andy Rouse / Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) silhouetted by beams of light from setting sun, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Winner of the African section of the Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice...

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and habitat, Atka Bay, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. October.

Guy Edwardes / Misty landscape with Red deer (Cervus elaphus) Black Mount, Highlands, Scotland, November.

David Tipling / Snow petrel (Pagadroma nivea nivea) flying around Iceberg off South Georgia, Southern Ocean January

Danny Green / RF - Bison (Bison bison) breathing in the cold air, Yellowstone National Park, USA, February (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Mark Hamblin / Raven (Corvus corax) adult calling from rock in mountain habitat, Scotland, UK. November. Third place in British Birds Bird Photograph of the Year competition 2016.

Wim van den Heever / Lioness (Panthera leo) sitting during misty sunrise, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Lion (Panthera leo) walking over the plain, taken with remote camera. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. December

Ann & Steve Toon / Spring wildflowers, Papkuilsfontein farm, Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape, South Africa, September 2015

Wim van den Heever / Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) feeding in shallow water at dawn, Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Eric Baccega / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) bathing at waterhole at night with moon, Okaukuejo, Etosha National Park, Namibia, Africa. Taken with infrared camera.

Brent Stephenson / Young Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking across melting sea ice, Scott Inlet, Baffin Island, Canadian Arctic, August. Vulnerable species.

Pedro Narra / Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchling at sea surface, Bissagos Islands, Guinea Bissau. Endangered species. 3rd Place in the SOS Especes Menacees / SOS Endangered Species Portfolio category of the Te...

Radomir Jakubowski / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) standing in snowfall, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, February. Winner of the NPL Best Single Image award in the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards competition 2015.

Wim van den Heever / Bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) porpoising during annual sardine run, Port St Johns, South Africa. June.

Klein & Hubert / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) waling across snow, Antarctica.

Fabrice Cahez / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub sitting, rear view, Vosges, France, May.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Hut in Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) fields, Valensole Plateau, Alpes Haute Provence, France, June 2015.

Espen Bergersen / Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) rear view lying down, resting at sunset, Svalbard, Norway. April.

Sergey Gorshkov / Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) in sand dunes, Namibia. Finalist in the Mammals Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY) Competition 2015.

Cyril Ruoso / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub, Burgundy, France, May.

Sven Zacek / Cross-country skiier on a moonlit night admiring the Northern Lights (Aurora borealis), Norway, March 2013.

Bruno D'Amicis / Sand viper (Cerastes vipera) sidewinding on sand dunes. Grand Erg Oriental, Kebili Governorate. Tunisia.

Bruno D'Amicis / Desert monitor (Varanus griseus) moving across sand dunes, showing characteristic tracks, in the Sahara, Tunisia.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) adult at night in sand dunes with starry sky, Grand Erg Oriental, Kebili Governorate, Tunisia. Camera trap image

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) Grand Erg Oriental, Kebili Governorate. Tunisia.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) displayed in the market (souk), of a Tunisian town. This species is adapted to silence and solitude of the desert, this individual that had been caught as an adult showed cle...

Richard Du Toit / Black wildebeest (Connochaetus gnou) bull silhouetted at dawn, Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Gauteng Province, South Africa.

Pete Oxford / Guanaco (Lama guanaco) with Cordiera del Paine in back. Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) displayed in the market (souk), of a Tunisian town. This species is adapted to silence and solitude of the desert, this individual that had been caught as an adult showed cle...

Andy Rouse / Mute swan (Cygnus olor) with wings raised defensively at sunrise, Wales, UK, April.

Ross Hoddinott / Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) resting on grasses at sunset, Vealand Farm, Devon, UK. July.

Ross Hoddinott / Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) drake swimming through reflection of house, Bude canal, Cornwall, UK. April 2015.

Dong Lei / Poppy (Meconopsis punicea) in habitat, Serxu, Shiqu county, Sichuan Province, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. August.

Peter Cairns / Twilight over Flakstad beach, Lofoten, Norway. February 2014.

Peter Cairns / Twilight over Flakstad beach, Lofoten, Norway. February 2014.

David Tipling / Northern gannet (Sula bassana) colony, Hermaness, Unst, Shetland Scotland, UK, April.

Danny Green / European brown bear (Ursus arctos) male standing in snow, Finland, April

Denis-Huot / Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), male, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

Pal Hermansen / Red house surrounded by snow-covered trees in winter, Eastern Finnmark, Norway, November 2006.

David Pattyn / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) adult male in mountain landscape. Alps, Aosta Valley, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy. September.

Claudio Contreras / American coot (Fulica americana americana) in mist, with Popocatepetl volcano behind, Xochimilco wetlands, Mexico City, Mexico. November.

Claudio Contreras / Boat on canal between chinampas, a wetland agricultural system. Xochimilco wetlands, Mexico City, September

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Boy on skis going up slope, framed by snow laden tree, Norway, February 2014.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Erect-crested penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) portrait on rocks, Antipodes Island, Sub-Antarctic New Zealand, March. Endangered species.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) with out of focus Lesser flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor) standing behind, Lake Nakuru, Kenya

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking across vast ice floe, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, July 2013.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) silhouetted on the coast at sunset, Galapagos.