10-05-2021 - Stranded juvenile minke whale Teddington Lock, London. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when they are sick or injured. It is thought h... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - Stranded juvenile minke whale Teddington Lock, London. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when they are sick or injured. It is thought h... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - RNLI, Stranded juvenile Minke whale, Teddington Lock, London. Positioning an inflatable cradle. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - RNLI, Stranded juvenile Minke whale, Teddington Lock, London. Positioning an inflatable cradle. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - RNLI, Stranded juvenile Minke whale, Teddington Lock, London. Positioning an inflatable cradle. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - RNLI, Stranded juvenile Minke whale, Teddington Lock, London. Positioning an inflatable cradle. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - RNLI, Stranded juvenile Minke whale, Teddington Lock, London. Positioning an inflatable cradle. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - RNLI, Stranded juvenile Minke whale, Teddington Lock, London. Positioning an inflatable cradle. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when... © Duncan Phillips

10-05-2021 - RNLI, Stranded juvenile Minke whale, Teddington Lock, London. Positioning an inflatable cradle. It was put to sleep after a failed rescue attempt. Chiswick RNLI. Whales normally beach themselves when... © Duncan Phillips

11-06-2006 - Exhausted Scuba divers asleep, after diving in the Skomer Island National Nature Reserve, Marloes Peninsula South West Wales © John Harris

11-06-2006 - Exhausted Scuba divers asleep, after diving in the Skomer Island National Nature Reserve, Marloes Peninsula South West Wales © John Harris

11-10-1999 - Shell Oil flares burning of petroleum gas in the Delta region of Nigeria. Ogoni Land. Local residents complain of being unable to sleep at night due to the brightness of the flares. © Adrian Arbib

27-03-1998 - Pig sleeping. © Paul Carter