Image: ‘Family Portrait’ by Andrew Lee – a family of 10 burrowing owls of Ontario.

Image: ‘Eye To Eye’ by Andrey Shpatak – a Japanese warbonnet fish, snapped in the Sea of Japan

Image: ‘Drawn And Quartered’ by Laurent – the sharks of Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia, hunt in packs but tend to be selfish and do not share their prey.

Image: ‘Hare Ball’ by Andy Parkinson – a little female hare covered in a dusting of snow, curling her body into a perfect spherical shape.

Image: ‘Baby On The Rocks’ by Frederic Larrey – a six-month-old snow leopard cub seeking safety among the rocks on the Tibetan Plateau.

Image: ‘Close Encounter’ by Guillermo Esteves – this image shows the large bull taking an interest in the canine visitor.

Image: ‘Drey Dreaming’ by Neil Anderson – two Eurasian red squirrels finding shelter in a box.

Image: ‘Border Refuge’ by Joseph Dominic Anthony – taken at the Mai Po Nature Reserve in Hong Kong within the Frontier Closed Area on the Chinese border.

Image: ‘Turtle Time Machine’ by Thomas Peschak – green sea turtles are classified as endangered, but at locations such as Little Farmer’s Cay in the Bahamas they are thriving.