This year, the contest received about 50 thousand works from 95 countries.
The main prize went to American biologist and photojournalist Tim Lehman for a photograph, which he called the “Twisted life”: an orangutan climbing on the Fig tree in Indonesia.
“Moon and crow” Gideon knight, Britain
“The lair of the lizards” Paul Hilton, Australia/Britain
“Underwater party”, Tony Wu, USA
Leopard making his way through the narrow streets of a poor area of Mumbai, India. Author photo — Nian of Khanolkar
White Sands national Park Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil. The author of the picture — Sebastian Rudy (Germany)
Pygmy owl — the smallest owl in the world (the body length is 15-19 cm). Author photo mats Anderson (Sweden)
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“Wind” Valter Binotto (Italy). Every gust of wind vzletaet to air a new portion of the pollen of flowers of the tree hazel
The “game star” Luis Javier Sandoval (Mexico)
“Attempt to evict” Ganesh H. Shankar (India)