Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) female breaching together with her male calf. The calf had a large wound on his left peduncle area, one that appeared to be the result of a large bite, Vava'u,...

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Harestail cotton-grass (Eriophorum vaginatum) growing on bog moorland, Scotland, UK, May. Did you know? The fluffy white fronds of cotton-grass have been used as pillow stuffing and also as wound dre...

Kim Taylor / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) workers feeding on Cotoneaster sap from a wound that they have created by chewing away the bark. Surrey, UK, September.

David Perpinan / Old wound caused by entanglement with fishing lines or nets in a Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Animal under rehabilitation. Spain. January 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) with huge wound, probably from Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) attack, Hannah Point, Livingstone Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

David Fleetham / Wounded great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) off Guadalupe Island, Mexico. The wound was inflicted by another shark and will heal surprisingly fast.

Will Watson / Tourists on Safari vehicles using mobile phones to photograph African lionesses (Panthera leo) one with wound on face, Chobe National Park, Botswana. January 2018.

Lucas Bustamante / Rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria) wound round branch over water, Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Paul Bertner / Leaf with virus, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam

Paul Bertner / Leaf with virus, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Kim Taylor / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) workers drinking sap from a wound they have created on a Cotoneaster branch. Surrey, England, UK, September.

Doug Perrine / Hawaiian / Gray's Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris longirostris) mother with calf that has a round wound from the bite of a cookie cutter shark, off Ho'okena Beach, South Kona, Hawaii , USA, Cen...

Tony Wu / Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) skeleton of female dubbed Jubilee, on display at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore. This 10.6m adult whale was found off Jurong Island in July...

Tony Wu / Dead Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) most likely killed by a ship strike. There is a large wound in the animal's caudal area, suggesting a direct bow strike by a large vessel. Sri Lanka, Indian Oce...

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf swimming toward the surface to breathe, with mother swimming below. The calf has a wound on its abdomentcaused by a rope or line of some sort. Vava'u, Ton...

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf playing at the surface, while its mother swims beneath, This male has a wound on its abdomen probably caused by a rope or line. Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga....

Tony Wu / Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) juvenile with fishing line and hook stuck in jaw. The hook had been attached for so long the wound had healed over, Ogasawara, Japan. September. Winner of the Gran...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfacing with fishing rope tangled around tail fluke causing wound, surfacing Orca (Orcinus orca) behind, Senja, Troms County, Norway, Scandinavia, January. Ce...

Nick Upton / British Divers Marine Life Rescue vet Darryl Thorpe cleaning a bite wound on the flipper of a grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) 'Jenga' with antiseptic in a cubicle at a BDMLR seal pup treatment faci...

Nick Upton / British Divers Marine Life Rescue veterinarian Darryl Thorpe using antibiotic spray on a bite wound on the flipper of a Grey seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) 'Jenga' in a cubicle at a BDMLR seal pup trea...

Lisa Hoffner / Dr Rono Bernard, Kenya Wildlife Service vet, and Save the Elephants team, taking care of a bullet wound of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) from the River family herd. Samburu National Reserve, K...

Lisa Hoffner / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) from the River family herd waking up from the anaesthetic, after treatment for a bullet wound. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with cooperation of Kenya Wi...

Lisa Hoffner / Dressing applied to bullet wound on leg of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) applied by Dr Rono Bernard, Kenya Wildlife Service vet. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with cooperation of Keny...

Lisa Hoffner / Dr Rono Bernard, Kenya Wildlife Service vet, and Save the Elephants team, taking care of a bullet wound of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) from the River family herd. Samburu National Reserve, K...

Lisa Hoffner / Dr Rono Bernard, Kenya Wildlife Service vet, taking care of a bullet wound of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) from the River family herd. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Model Released. Taken w...

Lisa Hoffner / Dr Rono Bernard, Kenya Wildlife Service vet, taking care of a bullet wound of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) from the River family herd. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Model Released. Taken w...

Lisa Hoffner / Dr Rono Bernard, Kenya Wildlife Service vet, taking care of a bullet wound of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) from the River family herd. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Model Released. Taken w...

Lisa Hoffner / Dr Rono Bernard, Kenya Wildlife Service vet and Save the Elephants team, trying to turn African elephant (Loxodonta africana) with wound in her side. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Model released. T...

Neil Aldridge / Thandi the female Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) who lost her horn in an attack by poachers, Kariega Game Reserve, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa - head portrait showing wound

Chris & Monique Fallows / Dusky Shark (Carcharhinus obscurus) with wound on fin, feeding on sardine shoal, East London, South Africa.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Dusky Shark (Carcharhinus obscurus) with wound on fin, East London, South Africa.

Mike Wilkes / Wound on back leg of Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) inflicted by Lion, Ngorongoro Crater,Tanzania

Mark MacEwen / Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) adult male with wound, fishing for Salmon, Brooks River Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska, July.

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) resting on riverbank, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) walking along riverbank, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) walking through vegetation, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) stretching, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) snarling, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) grooming paw on riverbank, wound on face, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed branch from foreground

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) amongst vegetation on riverbank, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed branch from foreground and wound on jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) grooming, resting beside Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) grooming, resting beside Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) with wound on face, appearing to snarl, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) resting beside the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) sleeping beside the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) large male with wound on his face, resting beside the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) resting on river bank beside the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) sleeping beside the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) sleeping beside the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Mark Carwardine / Jaguar (Panthera onca) resting beside the Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Brazil *Digitally removed wound on Jaguar's face

Roland Seitre / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) with leg in cast. Koala Hospital Moggil Inc., Brisbane, 2008.

Roland Seitre / Ganges River Dolphin (Platanita gangetica) with spear wound - the species is hunted for 'medical remedies'. Endangered. The Ganges, India.

Brent Stephenson / Male Stitchbird (Notiomystis cincta) collecting sad from wound in tree. Tiritiri Matangi Island, Auckland, New Zealand, September.

Lisa Hoffner / Orphaned African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) 'Murka' with spear wound to the head, having a dust bath. David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nairobi Elephant Nursery, Kenya, July 2007.

Lisa Hoffner / Orphaned African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) 'Murka' with spear wound to the head. David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nairobi Elephant Nursery, Kenya, July 2007.

Laurent Geslin / Common Zebra (Equus quagga) climbing up out of the Mara Rivers escaping with a large wound from the jaws of a Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Masai Mara reserve, Kenya, July, sequence 5/5

Doug Perrine / Reef manta ray (Manta alfredi formerly Manta birostris) with shark bite out of pectoral fin, among group feeding on plankton, Hanifaru Bay, Baa Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean, October

Kim Taylor / Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus) drinking sap from a wound in a Cotoneaster branch created by Hornets (Vespa crabro). Surrey, UK, October.

Kim Taylor / Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus) drinking sap from a wound in a Cotoneaster branch created by Hornets (Vespa crabro). Surrey, UK, October.

Kim Taylor / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) workers feeding on Cotoneaster sap from a wound that they have created by chewing away the bark. Surrey, UK, September.

Kim Taylor / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) workers feeding on Cotoneaster sap from a wound that they have created by chewing away the bark. Surrey, UK, September.

Kim Taylor / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) workers feeding on Cotoneaster sap from a wound that they have created by chewing away the bark. Surrey, UK, September.

Tim Laman / Human skulls and other bones on the floor of a cave in Triton Bay. Note skull with a large hole in it from possible battle wound. Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, April 2007

Suzi Eszterhas / Leopard (Panthera pardus) portrait, with injury / wound to foreleg, standing in tree, Mala Mala Game Reserve, South Africa

Patricio Robles Gil / Sisal fibers being wound into cloth, Yucatan, Mexico

David Tipling / Blackish cincloides (Cinclodes antarcticus) picking at wound on Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) in snow, Sea Lion Island, Falklands

Tony Heald / African lion (Panthera leo) male licking a wound on his leg, Etosha National Park, Namibia, June

Mark Brownlow / Close up of Sperm whale {Physeter macrocephalus} swimming at surface, showing wound, Australia

Pete Oxford / Vampire / Sharp-beaked ground finch (Geospiza difficilis) feeding on blood from wound on Nazca booby (Sula dactylatra granti) Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands

Doug Perrine / White marlin {Tetrapturus albidus} with bite wound on right flank, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Caribbean Sea

Georgette Douwma / Lyretail anthias or Goldie (Pseudanthias squamipinnes) male with wound on coral. Rinca, Indonesia

Doug Perrine / Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) with wound from bite from Cookie cutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Central Pacific Ocean

Jane Burton / Sutured wound after removal of mammary tumour (hyperplasia) on stomach of Lakeland Terrier x Border Collie bitch

Michael Hutchinson / Male White rhinoceros {Ceratotherium simum} with bloody face after recieving wound during territorial dispute, Lewa Downs, Kenya

Pete Oxford / Galapagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) with serious wound probably from a shark, vulnerable, Gardner Bay, Espanola Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

WILLIAM OSBORN / Young female Impala (Aepyceros melampus) with juvenile Red-billed oxpecker feeding on wound on ear, Kruger NP, South Africa

Colin Seddon / Badger with snare wound {Meles meles} England

TOM WALMSLEY / Californian sealion {Zalophus californianus} female with propeller wound, Monterey Bay, California, USA

Suzi Eszterhas / Park veterinarians and rangers treat a female Black rhinoceros' infected wound {Diceros bicornis} Maasai Mara Reserve, Kenya

Jean-Pierre Zwaenepoel / Southern plains grey / Hanuman langur {Semnopithecus dussumieri} male tends wound after fight with alpha male, Thar desert, Rajasthan, India

Doug Perrine / Killer whale / Orca {Orcinus orca} at surface with crater bite-wound from Cookiecutter shark {Isistius brasiliensis} King Bank, New Zealand, South Pacific Ocean.

Daniel Gomez / Caiman {Caiman sp.} attack victim showing his wound. Para State, Brazil.

Andrew Parkinson / Close up of irregular stripe of Common zebra, probably caused by lion wound. Botswana

Gerry Ellis / Carpet Python (Morelia spilota) wound around tree trunk in tropical rainforest, New Guinea, Indonesia

Niall Benvie / Scots Pine tree resin seeping from wound (Pinus sylvestris) Scotland

Ralph Pace / Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) juvenile with propeller marks, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico

David Fleetham / Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) jumping, with circular scar from cookie cutter shark on underside and small remora fish attached beside wound, Hawaii.

Flip Nicklin / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) fluke with barnacles and around round from Cookie-cutter Shark bite, Maui, Hawaii

Jeff Foott / California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) flying, showing damaged primary feathers, Baja California, Mexico

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Baird's Tapir (Tapirus bairdii) male with wounds from fight with another male in rainforest, Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica

Roberto Rinaldi / Crocodile Woman, scarification on women is seen as a symbol of beauty. The scars are made by rubbing ash into a wound so it becomes inflamed and heals as a raised scar, Karawari, Papua New Guinea, Oce...

Jose B. Ruiz / Plaque on the Monument A Ferida ("The Wound") at Muxia, Costa da Morte, Galacia, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Monument A Ferida ("The Wound") at Muxia, Costa da Morte, Galacia, Spain

Suzi Eszterhas / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) young bull with wound from snare, Masai Mara, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) resting with Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) pecking at wound on rhino's side, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. Critically endangered.