All the Pretty Animals

Bangkok, Thailand  Oxen presented with trays of food at a royal ploughing ceremony marking the beginning of the rice growing season  Photo - Sakchai Lalit
 

Honeybee collects pollen from a crabapple tree in Eugene, Oregon, US. Photo - Collin Andrew 

Newborn giraffe with its mother Genny - Ben Birchall
 

Scarlet ibis fly near the banks of a mangrove swamp at the mouth of the Calçoene river, Amapá state, northern Brazil. Photo - Ricardo Moraes 

The eye of a humpback whale in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.  Photo - Ari Friedlaender
 

Young rider cools off a horse at a well Jalandhar, India - Shammi Mehra