Wildlife photographers get up-close-and-personal with all sorts of wildlife.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London.
The winners were selected from a record-breaking 59,228 entries to the competition, representing 117 countries and territories.
A young falcon chases after a butterfly in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Jack Zhi / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
The competition doesnt only dub the images winners, but also honors those who took the shots.
If youre in the London area, the exhibit opens at the Natural History Museum on Friday.
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A young leopard seal under the waters off Antarctica. Photo: Matthew Smith / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Tadpoles in a forest of lily pads. Photo: Shane Gross / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A Cooper’s hawk eating a squirrel. Photo: Parham Pourahmad / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
A lynx resting in Canada’s Yukon. Photo: John Marriott / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
A blue ground beetle is dismembered by red wood ants. Photo: Ingo Arndt / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
A lynx stretching in Primorsky Krai, Russia. Photo: Igor Metelskiy / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
A baby macaque curled up with its mother in Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka. Photo: Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A forensic expert works to extract fingerprints from an elephant tusk. Photo: Britta Jaschinski / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A springtail and a slime mold. Photo: Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A yellow anaconda coils around the snout of a yacaré caiman. Photo: Karine Aigner / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
A carrion crow in Basel, Switzerland. Photo: Jiří Hřebíček / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
A tiger on a hillside in Nilgiris, India. Photo: Robin Darius Conz / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A bilby (or thalka, or ninu) reintroduced into its natural habitat in southern Australia. Photo: Jannico Kelk / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
An Amazon river dolphin in its natural habitat. Photo: Thomas Peschak / Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
