Competition wildlife Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Today is the first working day after the holidays. Let’s start with something easy.
In the natural history Museum in London, the prestigious photographic competition Wildlife Photographer of the Year. To 5 Feb here choose the best images for the readers.
1. Nestling flamingos. (Photo By Claudio Contreras Koob):
2. Shark. (Photo By Adriana Basques):
3. Land of snow and ice. The Arctic is beautiful all year round. (Photo By Josh Anon):
4. Roseate spoonbill — a bird from the family of ibises. (Photo By Steve Blandin):
5. When sloths move in search of food, their speed is only about 2 m per minute. (Photo By Luciano Candisani):
6. The bloody hand. Rangers in South Africa often have to saw off the horns and tusks from elephants and rhinos to save them from poachers. It is argued that the resulting material is catalogued and stored in a “safe place”. (Photo By Peter Chadwick):
7. Humpback whale watching. A mother and calf. (Photo By Ray Chin):
8. Family of mountain gorillas. The subspecies is on the verge of extinction: by the end of 2012, the total number of mountain gorillas did not exceed 880 individuals. (Photo By Alan Chung):
9. Warm embrace. (Photo By Debra Garside):
10. Six giraffes. (Photo By Uri Golman):
11. “Flying” fish — Mediterranean galloper. (Photo By Uri Golman):
12. Sirenevaya roller and Zebra. The bird hunts from an ambush on insects, caterpillars, Scorpions and spiders. (Photo By Lakshitha Karunarathna):
13. Southern white-faced scoop. (Photo By Jan Kolbe):
14. The tallest land animals on the planet — the giraffe. High growth increases the load on the circulatory system, especially in relation to supply of the brain. So heart giraffes particularly strong. It transmits 60 liters of blood per minute, weighs 12 kg and creates pressure, which is three times higher than in humans. (Photo By David Lloyd):
15. A flock of lovebirds! The bird lives in the East of Zambia, Northern Mozambique, southern Tanzania and Malawi. (Photo By Luke Massey):
16. Bros. This Western lowland gorilla rescued from meat dealers. (Photo By Jo-Anne McArthur):
17. Tired. Moose in Alaska. (Photo By Ryan Miller):
18. The fish-moon. This is the most severe of modern bony fish. Reach a length of three meters. In the Guinness Book of records contains information about individuals caught 18 September 1908 near Sydney, whose length was 3.1 m, height — 4.26 m and a weight of 2235 lbs. (Photo Jordi Chias Pujol):
19. Night watering hole. A herd of zebras in the Zimbabwean nature reserve, South Africa. (Photo By Charl Senekal):
20. Polar owl. It is the largest bird of the order owls in the tundra. (Photo By Connor Stefanison):
21. Little orangutan. (Photo By Jami Tarris):
22. Curious bears in Kamchatka. See also “Why do bears stand on their hind legs?”. (Photo By Marco Urso):
23. A female leopard. Knowledgeable people say that there is nothing worse than the sight of a leopard in the wild when they meet him in person. (Photo by Martin van Lokven):
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