Wild Life

Wild boar (Sus scrofa) at night with the milky way in the background, Gyulaj, Tolna, Hungary. August. Taken using long exposure with flash at night. Winner of the Mammals Category of the GDT Awards 2015. Overall winner of the MontPhoto Competition 2015.

Foraging by Starlight

It's no accident that the opportunistic wild boar has become one of the most widely distributed mammals on the planet.

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A Gathering of Giants

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Black Rhino, Etosha National Park, Namibia - 2015
Arid Apparition

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European Elk / Moose bull shedding his velvet, Alces alces, Sarek National Park, Laponia World Heritage area, Norrbotten, Lapland, Sweden
Red Velvet

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March of the Flamingos

In the harsh, hot soda lakes of East Africa, flamingos thrive, and now scientists are beginning to understand how these birds live where other species die.

Otter (lutra lutra) is eating a wintering common frog it just caught from a river in Southern Estonia.
Frog Leg Feast

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Lens of Time: Corals in Motion

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cusk-eel (Lamprogrammus sp.)
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An elaborate headdress and a frilly external stomach is apparently just what this deep-sea creature needs to survive its precarious youth.

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Lens of Time: Slime Lapse

What these single-celled, gelatinous blobs lack in brain power, they make up for with surprisingly complex decision-making.

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