Chilco Community, Angochagua Parochia, Imbabura Province, Ecuador

Adult pied butcherbirds (Cracticus nigrogularis), taking flight in Vansittart Bay, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, Pacific

View of market stalls and Kita-indogane-do on a sunny day, Shitennoji, Tennoji Ward, Osaka, Honshu, Japan

Scene of the fish market in the port town of Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Adult king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) returning from sea to the nesting colony at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, Polar Regions

In the souk, Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus), grooming, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Africa

Piazza Maria Immacolata, Martina Franca, Taranto, Apulia, Italy

Piazza Maria Immacolata, Martina Franca, Taranto, Apulia, Italy

Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) lifting its rosturm above the suface and associating with whale watching boat. Slender rostrum and small blow hole typical of minke

Minke whale ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata) associating with North Sailing whale-watching boat. Blow lit up by low light Fjordland, in far north of Iceland.

Free diving with Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in clear waters off Island of Bimini. Here dolphins come to rest and socialist between feeding sessions. Isla

Spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Split image of Spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris, and cliff, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris, Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) . Social contact. Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Skeleton Coast, Dorob National Park, Namibia, Africa

Lion (Panther leo), lioness and cub, social interaction, Sabi Sand Game Reserve, South Africa

Social interaction and behaviour in a group. Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus). South America, Falkland Islands, January