The extraordinary moment a manic scrum of male bees envelops a single female to try to mate with her.
The beauty of baleen: Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn went out in a boat 20-30 times to get this pictureThe 16-year-old's winning entry is a close-up of a Bryde's whale and the baleen plates in its mouth which are used to filter food.
You can see a sardine flying through the air as it tries to escape being gobbled down by the great cetacean. "Somehow the sardine jumped in the boat," Katanyou recalled. "I was lucky. I got close in the boat and the whale stayed above the water for about a minute."Started in 1964 by BBC Wildlife Magazine, the competition is now organised by London's Natural History Museum.Ndakasi's passing by Brent Stirton, South AfricaBrent Stirton is well known for his photojournalism, for which he is the WPY category winner this year.
Fernando Constantino Martínez Belmar took this picture at a location known as the Cave of the Hanging Snakes. At dusk, thousands of bats leave the cave to forage for insects. As they depart, the rat snakes hang from the walls of the cave, aiming to get a meal of their own. The picture won the Behaviour: Amphibians and Reptiles category.Dimitry Kokh took this picture on Kolyuchin Island, which is in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea.
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