Ingo Arndt / Broad nosed caiman hatching from egg {Caiman latirostris} Sante Fe, Argentina - Project

Ingo Arndt / Shell detail of Hermanns tortoise {Testudo hermanni} France Endangered

Ingo Arndt / Head portrait of Eastern grey kangaroo {Macropus giganticus} Australia

Ingo Arndt / Desert chameleon walking away from camera {Chamaeleo namaquensis} Namibia

Ingo Arndt / Long eared owl in tree {Asio otus} Hessen Germany

Ingo Arndt / Two Alpine marmots {Marmota marmota} Hohe Tauern NP Austria

Ingo Arndt / Alpine marmot in snow {Marmota marmota} Hohe Tauern NP Austria

Ingo Arndt / Casqued chameleon male {Chamaeleo calyptratus} Yemen

Ingo Arndt / Hanuman langur mother young {Presbytis entellus} Jodhpur India

Ingo Arndt / White-handed gibbon {Hylobates lar} feeding in {Ficus sp} tree Khao Yai NP Thailand

Ingo Arndt / Close up of Honey bees (Apis mellifera) forming 'chains' and a 'ball' at the top of their tree hole nest as they establish a colony, Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Honey bees (Apis mellifera), drinking water on hot summer day, Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Sun rising over ice formations on Lake Baikal. Siberia, Russia. February 2019.

Ingo Arndt / Snow covered Cerro Paine Grande in the Cordillera Paine massif. At sunrise, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile. April 2017.

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...

Ingo Arndt / Land snails (Polymita picta) shells, Cuba. Endemic species.

Ingo Arndt / Land snail (Polymita picta) collection of shells showing variation in patterning, Cuba. Endemic species.

Ingo Arndt / Svalbard reindeers (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) running in snow, winter, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, April

Ingo Arndt / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) on icefield with moon in late winter, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway, April

Ingo Arndt / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) on icefield with moon in late winter, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway, April

Ingo Arndt / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) on icefield with moon in late winter, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway, April

Ingo Arndt / Prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis), threat display, South Dakota, USA September. Sequence 1 of 3

Ingo Arndt / Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) males fighting, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Sequence 3 of 3

Ingo Arndt / American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) split level, Everglades, USA, January.

Ingo Arndt / American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) split level, Everglades, USA, January.

Ingo Arndt / Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) adult resting, close up portrait, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. January. Finalist in the Birds Category of the GDT Awards 2015.

Ingo Arndt / Grizzly Bear / Coastal Brown Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) mother with two spring cubs, one riding on her back, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA. June.

Ingo Arndt / Harp seal (Phoca groenlandicus) pup on sea ice looking down into icy water, Magdalen Islands, Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, March.

Ingo Arndt / Harp seal (Phoca groenlandicus) pup sleeping on sea ice, Magdalen Islands, Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada, March.

Ingo Arndt / Compilation of various corals including many Fan corals (Gorgonacea sp) from collection at Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (fruit and beetle elytra ) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (fungus) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Ingo Arndt / Vogelkop bowerbird (Amblyornis inornatus) decoration material (blue rotten wood) collected in order to attract females to his bower, Arfak Mountains, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia.

Ingo Arndt / Common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) detail of nest surface, Hessen, Germany, April.

Ingo Arndt / Caddisfly (Limnephilidae) case built out of sticks and bark fragments, Germany, November.

Ingo Arndt / Caddisfly (Limnephilus sp.) case built of sticks, wood fragments, seeds, snail shells and plant stems, Germany, November.

Ingo Arndt / Bark beetle (Scolytinae) galleries in dead spruce tree (Picea abies), Bayerischer Wald / Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany., June.

Ingo Arndt / Buff tip moth (Phalera bucephala) protective web covering caterpillars and food plant, Hungary, June.

Ingo Arndt / Buff tip moth (Phalera bucephala) caterpillars feeding on leaf, Hungary, June.

Ingo Arndt / American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) swimming in open ocean, Pacific Coast, Ostional, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) picture taken with a remote camera car, Alaska, July.