The images below aren’t all happy ones — two in particular highlight the grim conditions some animals face at the hands of their captors — but they’re all incredibly powerful in their own way…
A humpback calf, spotted off the Vava’u Island group in the Kingdom of Tonga.
Image: Wayne Osborn
An emperor penguin colony on Snow Hill Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Image: Yaz Loukhal
A leopard soaking up the sun in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
Image: Clement Mwangi
A hunting Pallas’ cat in the Mongolian grasslands.
Image: Valeriy Maleev
A mother polar bear and her cubs in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada.
Image: Steve Levi
A long-eared jerboa, snapped during an expedition to the Gobi Desert.
Image: Valeriy Maleev
A grizzly bear and her cub by the Nakina River in British Columbia, Canada.
A family of marmots in Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria.
Image: Michael Schober
Ranger Elia Mugambi caring for an orphaned black rhino in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, northern Kenya.
Image: Martin Buzora
Two loved up penguins in Atka Bay, Antarctica.
Image: Stefan Christmann
A humpback whale feeding off the coast of Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada.
Image: Jake Davis
Two courting kestrels in Hortobágyi National Park, Hungary.
Image: Marco Valentini
A school of red tooth triggerfish in the Verde Island Passage, Philippines.