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“Cat Amongst the Flamingo.” Dennis had been keeping an behold out for wild cats corresponding to servals for a number of days when a call came over the radio: one had been viewed at Ndutu Lake. Nonetheless it undoubtedly wasn’t a serval. It become once a caracal, efficiently searching out wading lesser flamingos.
Caracals have a diversified weight-reduction blueprint, from bugs to antelope, and are critical for the acrobatic leaps they originate to snatch birds from the air. Nonetheless there are few, if any, records of them searching out flamingos.
Credit rating: Dennis Stogsdill / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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At Serengeti Nationwide Park in Tanzania, a caracal chomps on its lunch of new flamingo. With an cool gape and pep in its step, the enormous cat skips away with the uninteresting chicken. This is the scene photographer Dennis Stogsdill witnessed and his image of the encounter earned top honors at the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards in the “Behaviour: Mammals” category.
A listing-breaking 60,636 entries from 113 countries and territories entered this year’s contest, now in its 61st year. South African natural world photographer Wim van den Heever earned the prestigious title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 for his placing image, “Ghost Town Visitor” (viewed beneath).
“Ghost Town Visitor”
Winner, Urban Wildlife
Wim van den Heever (South Africa) photos this haunting scene of a brown hyena amongst the skeletal stays of a long-abandoned diamond mining metropolis.
With sea fog rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean, Wim selected this space for his camera entice after noticing hyena tracks nearby. ‘It took me 10 years to in a roundabout method obtain this one single image of a brown hyena, in the most wonderful body doubtless.’
The rarest hyena species in the world, brown hyenas are nocturnal and largely solitary. They are known to head thru Kolmanskop on their technique to hunt Cape fur seal pups or scavenge for carrion washed ashore alongside the Namib Wasteland fly.
Credit rating: Wim van den Heever / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 Wim van den Heever
“This image is an eerie juxtaposition of the wild reclaiming human civilisation,” jury member Akanksha Sood Singh said. “The image is haunting but mesmerising because of this of the solitary hyena takes centre stage as a image of resilience amid the decay. This image is a multi-layered story of loss, resilience and the natural world’s mute triumph, making it an unforgettable piece of natural world and conservation images.”
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Pure Historical past Museum, London.
“Synchronised Fishing”
Winner, Behaviour: Birds
Qingrong Yang (China) perfects photographic timing to indicate a ladyfish snatching its prey from trusty below this tiny egret’s beak.
Qingrong become once at Yundang Lake advance his house, a series he visits often to photograph the feeding frenzies: tiny egrets patrol the ground, keen to pounce on fish leaping to obtain away underwater predators.
Once a natural marine harbour, Yundang Lake become once sealed off from the sea all the method thru 1970s pattern. Remoted from the tides and currents, it become polluted and stagnant. An engineering venture later reconnected it to the sea by method of a machine of gates that alter water float.
Credit rating: Qingrong Yang / Wildlife Photographer of the Year YangQingRong
“Fancy an Eel out of Water”
Winner, Animals in their Ambiance
Shane Immoral (Canada) witnesses a peppered moray eel very powerful in its snort searching out for carrion at low tide.
It took Shane a large number of attempts over a number of weeks to doc this not often photographed behaviour. At the foundation the eels had been elusive, but once Shane realised that they had been scavenging for uninteresting fish, he waited. His patience become once soon rewarded when these three eels appeared.
Peppered moray eels are smartly adapted to the intertidal zone. They can hunt every above and beneath the water’s ground the utilization of their alive to senses of scent and gaze, every now and then staying out of water for bigger than 30 seconds.
Credit rating: Shane Immoral / Wildlife Photographer of the Year SHANE GROSS
“Survival Purse”
Winner, Underwater
Ralph Tempo (USA) fantastically illuminates the egg case of a swell shark, tethered to the contaminated of an good kelp.
Faced with noteworthy currents pushing him from aspect to aspect, Ralph struggled to withhold exact to photograph this egg case, or ‘mermaid’s purse’. He lit the case from late to present the swell shark embryo inside, its gill slits and yolk sac clearly visible amongst the darkish kelp wooded enviornment.
Researchers estimate that kelp forests in Monterey Bay have declined by bigger than 95 per cent over the past 34 years. Swell sharks rely on kelp to lay their leathery eggs, making them especially liable to such losses.
Credit rating: Ralph Tempo / Wildlife Photographer of the Year Ralph Tempo
“Sole Survivor“
Winner, Rising Extensive establish Award
Luca had been watching a tree hole the place this Eurasian pygmy owl and its mate had been nesting. When one disappeared, the other persevered feeding the chicks. On at the present time, the final chicken returned clutching the chicks’ breakfast in its claws, and known as for its mate, but there become once no acknowledge.
Credit rating: Luca Lorenz / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
“Frolicking Frogs”
Winner, Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles
Quentin Martinez (France) discovers a gathering of lesser tree frogs in a breeding tournament.
In continual rain, Quentin adopted a flooded path to a non everlasting pool in a wooded enviornment clearing. He framed this scene with a huge-angle lens and extinct a subtle flash, which didn’t disturb the frogs, to concentrate on their metal sheen.
To attract mates, lesser tree frogs cancel short, shrill calls. Great numbers gather, and the spectacular breeding tournament – triggered by heavy rains – lasts for appropriate a pair of hours. » …
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