This photo, taken by Lukas Gawenda, shows two Bison near the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National park. Grand Prismatic is the largest colorful hot spring in the United States.
Billy Clapham decided to go for a more common scene with his photograph of a female blackbird about to eat a dried mealworm in a suburban backyard in Lincolnshire, UK.
A farmer protects both his family and his animals from mosquitoes by using nets in this photograph, taken by Dimple Pancholi in Gujarat, India.
Shelter takes a different form for this plant, growing in house in Kolmanskop, an abandoned town in Namibia which is slowly being taken over by sand dunes.
For this adult female Italian crested newt, pictured here by Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola, home is the waters of Piedmont, Italy
The first concept of shelter, the womb, is depicted here by Robert Cabagnot in this photo of a chick embryo inside a hardened eggshell.
This spider, photographed by Krasimir Matarov in Bulgaria, builds his own home.
Sometimes home can be brutal, like these Parasitoid wasps feeding a paralyzed caterpillar to their offspring, who rest inside the small pots the wasps have built. Amateur photographer Thomas Endlein took this striking photograph in Borneo.
This photo by Wolfgang Weinhardt, taken in Indonesia, shows a Tarsier in its natural home.
Similarly, this photo by Nagarjun Ram, one of three chosen amateur photographers under the age of 18, shows a leopard in its natural habitat in the jungles of Karantaka, India.
Ysabel M. Victoriano, another under-18 shooter, snagged a spot on the list with this photo of siblings in the Philippines watering recently planted seedlings. Due to environmental degradation caused by nearby quarrying, the people of this area have begun to plant a mahogany tree forest.
Boris Barath, the third amateur under the age of 18 to be shortlisted, submitted this photo of a sea turtle eating a jellyfish off the shores of the Ari Atoll in the Maldives.
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