The breathtaking winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards
Winner, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 — 'Entwined lives', Tim Laman (USA) — An endangered orangutan makes its way up a strangler fig tree in Indonesia.
Winner, Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 — 'The moon and the crow', Gideon Knight (UK) — The spindly twigs of the sycamore tree silhouetted against the sky ‘made it feel almost supernatural, like something out of a fairytale,’ says Gideon.
Winner, The Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Single image — 'The pangolin pit', Paul Hilton (UK/Australia) — 4,000 defrosting pangolins weighing 5 tonnes from one of the largest seizures of the animals on record. They were destined for China and Vietnam for the exotic‐meat trade or for traditional medicine.
Winner, Underwater — 'Snapper party', Tony Wu (USA) — Two‐spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean.
Winner, Urban — 'The alley cat', Nayan Khanolkar (India) — In this suburb of Mumbai, leopards slip ghost-like through the maze of alleys.
Winner, Details — 'The sand canvas', Rudi Sebastian (Germany) — The pristine white sand of Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park. In the dry season, sand from the coast is blown as far as 50 kilometres inland
Winner, Black and White — 'Requiem for an owl', Mats Andersson (Sweden) — Eurasian pygmy owls are the smallest owls in Europe, barely 7 inches long.
Winner, Plants and Fungi — 'Wind composition', Valter Binotto (Italy) — With every gust of wind, showers of pollen are released from these hazel tree flowers.
Winner, Impressions — 'Star player', Luis Javier Sandoval (Mexico) — Young sea lions often play games to hone their skills. This one kept throwing a starfish at the photographer.
Winner, Birds — 'Eviction attempt', Ganesh H Shankar (India) — These Indian rose-ringed parakeets returned to their nest to find a Bengal monitor lizard had taken up residence.
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