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The breathtaking winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

The breathtaking winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

Winner, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 — 'Entwined lives', Tim Laman (USA) — An endangered orangutan makes its way up a strangler fig tree in Indonesia.

The breathtaking winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

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Winner, Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 — 'The moon and the crow', Gideon Knight (UK) — The spindly twigs of the sycamore tree silhouetted against the sky ‘made it feel almost supernatural, like something out of a fairytale,’ says Gideon.

Winner, Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 —

Winner, The Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Single image — 'The pangolin pit', Paul Hilton (UK/Australia) — 4,000 defrosting pangolins weighing 5 tonnes from one of the largest seizures of the animals on record. They were destined for China and Vietnam for the exotic‐meat trade or for traditional medicine.

Winner, The Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Single image —

Winner, Underwater — 'Snapper party', Tony Wu (USA) — Two‐spot red snappers gather to spawn around Palau in the western Pacific Ocean.

Winner, Underwater —

Winner, Urban — 'The alley cat', Nayan Khanolkar (India) — In this suburb of Mumbai, leopards slip ghost-like through the maze of alleys.

Winner, Urban —

Winner, Details — 'The sand canvas', Rudi Sebastian (Germany) — The pristine white sand of Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park. In the dry season, sand from the coast is blown as far as 50 kilometres inland

Winner, Details —

Winner, Black and White — 'Requiem for an owl', Mats Andersson (Sweden) — Eurasian pygmy owls are the smallest owls in Europe, barely 7 inches long.

Winner, Black and White —

Winner, Plants and Fungi — 'Wind composition', Valter Binotto (Italy) — With every gust of wind, showers of pollen are released from these hazel tree flowers.

Winner, Plants and Fungi —

Winner, Impressions — 'Star player', Luis Javier Sandoval (Mexico) — Young sea lions often play games to hone their skills. This one kept throwing a starfish at the photographer.

Winner, Impressions —

Winner, Birds — 'Eviction attempt', Ganesh H Shankar (India) — These Indian rose-ringed parakeets returned to their nest to find a Bengal monitor lizard had taken up residence.

Winner, Birds —

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