A man engages with orphaned African Elephant calves at a wildlife rescue centre. Children's toys

A man engages with orphaned African Elephant calves at a wildlife rescue centre. Children's toysA man engages with orphaned African Elephant calves at a wildlife rescue centre. David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Nairobi, Kenya.

Laughing a young boy rides a body board in the waves at the beach

The vertical stabiliser and rudder of a jet airliner in a hanger

Worshippers stick gold flakes to statues of Buddha and offer prayers

runs across a grassy plain at sunset

Bright red sap secreted from beneath the bark of tree trunk

A delicately textured peach-pink

Vapour trails from jet engines of a passenger aircraft in a blue sky

Scientists uses stereo video cameras to measure a Whale Sharks length

The gangly legs and fluffy feathers of a Black-winged Stilt chick

Petticoat daffodils at dawn

Nanay River

An African Skimmer chick hiding from predators in wetland grass