Water containers that have been filled from communal water facility and are awaiting collection, Cidade Velha, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands, Africa

Communal well, near Banjul, Gambia, West Africa, AFrica

Chambered cairn at Cairnholy, the area in front of the wall and Sentinel Stones is believed to have been for worship or communal purposes, near Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Communal well, near Banjul, Gambia, West Africa, AFrica

Collecting water from communal water facility, Sal (Salt), Cape Verde Islands, Africa

Large Neolithic communal house or temple, Stanydale Temple Neolithic site, Stanydale, West Mainland, Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Mass mobilisation, irrigation project, Yunnan, China, Asia

Well preserved wheelhouses (communal round houses), Jarlshof historic site, South Mainland, Shetland Islands , Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Well preserved wheelhouses (communal round houses), Jarlshof historic site, South Mainland, Shetland Islands , Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Communal laundry in the southeast of the island, near Las Hayas, La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain, Atlantic, Europe

Burundi agakura, a youth agricultural project in gitera. Group of farmers who are associated with agakura doing communal work on farmland.

Uganda nejjemba teopista, farmer of kayunga and farmers group animator, holding her hoe after working in a communal garden at kangulumira where food is grown to feed the poor and sick. caritas uganda project

Herd of elephants (Loxodonta Africana) at a waterhole in the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.

Burundi agakura, a youth agricultural project in gitera. Group of farmers who are associated with agakura doing communal work on farmland.

Herd of elephants (Loxodonta Africana) at a waterhole in the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.

Herd of elephants (Loxodonta Africana) at a waterhole in the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.

Kenya women cultivating fields

Herd of elephants (Loxodonta Africana) at a waterhole in the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.

Pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) caterpillars heading to bury themselves, Spain

Fruit bats roosting in Sydney Botanical Garden, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

White Storks (Ciconia ciconia) nesting on electricity pylons in the Coto Donana in Andalucia, Spain.

dormitory in Kung Fu school near Shaolin, 1987, Song Shan, Henan province, China, Asia

dormitory, TV in Kung Fu school near Shaolin, Song Shan, Henan province, China, Asia

Jiuhua Shan Village, Monastery, Jiuhuashan, Mount Jiuhua, mountain of nine flowers, Jiuhua Shan, Anhui province, China, Asia

Town-hall in Perth, Australia West Australia

SOMALIA Baidoa Woman and children eating lunch from communal dish using the right hand. At a family meal men are usually served first and women and children eat seperately later.

Barn Owl (Tyto alba). At its nest. A former communal nest of Sociable Weavers (Philetairus socius). Kalahari Desert, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.