The 60th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition attracted more than 59,000 entries from 117 countries, and just recently announced their winners. The owners and sponsors have kindly shared some of this year’s winning and honored images below. The museum’s website has many more images from this year and previous years. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. Captions were provided by the photographers and WPY organizers, and are lightly edited for style.
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