Award-winning photos of animals
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This mysterious character is a male ocelot, it was snapped by Christopher Beirne, and bagged him the overall prize in the competition. The ocelot was snapped walking along a man made trail in Peru. It's thought that large cats such as ocelot and pumas use trails like this to navigate the jungle quickly and easily.
This picture is the overall student winner. Leejiah Dorward, a student at the Department of Zoology, at Oxford University, snapped this flap-necked chameleon climbing down a plant stem to find a safe spot to spend the night in South Tanzania. Can you spot the red bug hiding in frame as well?
This amazing shot from Adam Rees, a student at Plymouth University, shows that humans sometimes need to lend animals a helping hand. This female leatherback turtle was saved by local conservationists and scientists after becoming stranded on this beach in Gabon. She had mistaken the lights on the shore for the night sky. Adult female Leatherback turtles use the stars to navigate back to the beaches where they lay their eggs.
Ever heard of the salmon run? Well you are looking at it! Every year millions of salmon make the journey up stream to lay their eggs, but it's not an easy journey... Big brown bears like this one are waiting to gobble them up! Zoe Davies from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent caught this amazing moment and was awarded the overall winner in the 'Dynamic Ecosystems' category.
Not content with one win, Leejiah Dorward bagged top spot in the 'Individuals and Populations' category with this shot of a male long tailed sylph shaking off the water from his feathers after a particularly heavy tropical storm!
Photographer, Mark Tatchell, got the Overall Runner-up spot with this personal image of a Toco Toucan. The way the toucan is looking back towards the camera kind of makes it look like it's posing so Mark could get a nice shot! What a show off...
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