Seeking some eye candy?

Look no further than these highly commended images submitted to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

This dramatic macro view of Dawsons burrowing bees shows males all attempting to mate with a female.

A jaguar fatally bites a caiman in a dramatic shot.

A jaguar fatally bites a caiman in a dramatic shot.Photo: Ian Ford / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Pallass cats are a species of wild cat native to cold swaths of Asia, like Inner Mongolia.

In this freeze frame, you may be duped into thinking these lions are in an argument.

Perhaps so, but theyre also post-coitus, having mated several times before this photo was taken.

A ball of Dawson’s burrowing bees attempting to access a female.

Photo: Georgina Steytler / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This requiem shark had the misfortune of being bycatch of a fishing boat in the South Atlantic Ocean.

The shark is captured contorting its body as it fights against the hook.

About 80 million sharks are removed from the ocean each year.

A Pallas’s cat with the moon setting behind it.

Photo: Xingchao Zhu / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Today, about 75% of all shark species are at risk of extinction.

A drone shot captures the majesty and mammoth size of a glacier in Norway.

At first glance, the invertebrates could be mistaken for crowds of penguins seen from afar.

Mating lions, captured in black-and-white mid-snarl.

Photo: William Fortescue / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Ah, to be a crabeater seal, napping amongst the sea ice.

Thats the situation of the two pinnipeds seen here, bobbing in the frigid waters of the Weddell Sea.

It looks quite serenedare I say, better than a desk job?

A requiem shark (bycatch) fighting against its fishers.

Photo: Tommy Trenchard / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Two peafowl are silhouetted by light illuminating a break in the trees of Rajasthans Keoladeo National Park.

To each their own, but this is my favorite shot of the highly commended selection.

In this shot, two tawny owlets sit on a tree branch in a German park.

The Bråsvellbreen glacier, as seen from a drone.

Photo: Thomas Vijayan / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A jackdaw is seen here carrying several stones in its beak.

No, its not for digestion.

A dead, frost-covered deer is seen here on the forest floor near Susanville, California.

Mussels bound together to avoid being washed away.

Photo: Theo Bosboom / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A David Bowie spider is seen between two branches in Malaysia.

A stoat leaps above the snow in this dynamic shot.

Taken in France, the stoats motivations are not clear.

Two crabeater seals napping amongst sea ice.

Photo: Tamara Stubbs And Atlantic Productions / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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Two peacocks in Rajasthan, India, with a deer in the foreground.

Photo: Shreyovi Mehta / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Tawny owls in a park in Munich.

Photo: Sasha Jumanca / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A jackdaw carrying stones to its nest.

Photo: Samual Stone / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The body of a deer, covered in frost.

Photo: Randy Robbins / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A ziggy spider in Malaysia.

Photo: Lam Soon Tak / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A stoat contorting itself in the air above a snowy landscape.

Photo: Jose Manuel Grandío / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Parasitic copepods on a grenadier fish.

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A colossal squid.

A bottlenose dolphin underwater.

A Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis).

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