Free wild elephant waiting for gift from travellers on the edge of the road near Lunugamvehera National Park, Sri Lanka, Indian subcontinent, South Asia

Free wild elephant waiting for gift from travellers on the edge of the road near Lunugamvehera National Park, Sri Lanka, Indian subcontinent, South Asia

Sacred fallow deer under cherry blossoms, Nara, Japan

Sheep and goats in a pen for the night, Rumbak village, Hemis National Park, Ladakh region, state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

A serene deer resting amid the peaceful forest setting of Nara Park, Nara, Honshu, Japan

A wild deer walking on a crosswalk in Nara, famed for its friendly, free-roaming deer, Nara, Honshu, Japan

Two mother polar bears (Ursus maritimus) with cubs of the year watch a male bear feeding on a fin whale carcass in Svalbard, Norway

African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), Dzanga Bai, Dzanga Sangha National Park, UNESCO, Central African Republic

Pygmy Woman, Dzanga Sangha National Park, UNESCO, Central African Republic

King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) with introduced reindeer at breeding and nesting colony at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions