832-393705 - Common octopus Octopus vulgaris), mating, male on left inserts mating arm into mantle cavity on female's siphon transfers sperm-filled capsule, Red Sea, Aqaba, Kingdom of Jordan
1350-286 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-265 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
1350-280 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-256 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-244 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-1814 - San Esteban Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura conspicuosa), an endemic iguana found only on Isla San Esteban in the Gulf of California, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
1350-320 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
1350-318 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) on sea ice off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to the coast of Hudson Bay in Fall waiting for the ice to freeze, and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly anxious as they wait for winter. While they wait, they engage in frequent wrestling matches to determine a mating hierarchy for the breeding season in March and April, and regularly check on the ice to see if it will carry them out to sea.
1350-319 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
1350-189 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs COY near snow den at Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1116-49706 - Mr. Fleetham spent an afternoon photographing these Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (Stenella plagiodon). During the several hours in the water a group of Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncates) joined the company for nearly an hour of inter-species exchange, Bahamas
1116-49166 - Large herd of Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) kick up dust as they plunge down a steep bank to cross the Mara River, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
1116-49171 - Female Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) grooming each other while one of their babies sits between them in Mahale Mountains National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania
1116-49178 - Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) crowd together as they run along the shore of the Mara River looking for a place to cross, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
1116-49165 - Large herd of Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) kick up dust as they descend a steep bank to cross the Mara River, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
1116-49164 - Large herd of Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) kick up dust as they plunge down a steep bank to cross the Mara River, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
1116-49177 - Large herd of Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) kick up dust as they plunge down a steep bank to cross the Mara River, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
1116-49172 - Female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) lying on its back with baby in arms is groomed by another female in Mahale Mountains National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania
1116-49173 - Female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) lying on her back cradles her baby while another female Chimpanzee looks on in Mahale Mountains National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania
1116-50419 - Two male blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) fighting in grassland, Cottar's 1920s Safari Camp, Maasai Mara National Reserve; Kenya
1116-49961 - Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfacing in Inside Passage in the Lynn Canal under the glow of the setting sun; Alaska, United States of America
1116-49953 - American black bear (Ursus americanus) and cub walking on a fallen log across a river, the cub following the adult; Alaska, United States of America
1116-49969 - Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) lifts it's fluke as it feeds in Lynn Canal, with Herbert Glacier and Coast Range in the background; Alaska, United States of America
1116-49970 - Killer whale (Orcinus orca) surfacing beside the Chilkat Mountains at sunset, Lynn Canal, Inside Passage; Alaska, United States of America
1116-49963 - Black bear (Ursus americanus) sitting on the shore eating fresh chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) from the stream, Tongass National Forest; Alaska, United States of America