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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe best wildlife photos taken this year reveal a hippo murder, a hungry leopard seal, and a weevil
The best wildlife photos taken this year reveal a hippo murder, a hungry leopard seal, and a weevil ensnared by zombie fungus
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-wildlife-photos-of-2019-animals-struggle-to-survive-2019-9
The London Natural History Museum's annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition awards photographers whose work inspires us to consider our place in the natural world and our responsibility to protect it.
This year, the contest received 48,000 entries from photographers in 100 countries.
The front-runners captured images of a leopard seal lunging for a penguin, a male hippo crushing a newborn in its jaws, and a sea turtle strangled by a rope.
Here are the 14 best photographs from this year's contest.
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-wildlife-photos-of-2019-animals-struggle-to-survive-2019-9
The London Natural History Museum's annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition awards photographers whose work inspires us to consider our place in the natural world and our responsibility to protect it.
This year, the contest received 48,000 entries from photographers in 100 countries.
The front-runners captured images of a leopard seal lunging for a penguin, a male hippo crushing a newborn in its jaws, and a sea turtle strangled by a rope.
Here are the 14 best photographs from this year's contest.
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The best wildlife photos taken this year reveal a hippo murder, a hungry leopard seal, and a weevil (Original Post)
IronLionZion
Sep 2019
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hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)1. Uggh. The male hippo crushing its young is horrific. Nature is cruel.
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)2. It's a metaphor for the American president
or at least that's the first thing I thought of when I saw it
Fla Dem
(23,785 posts)3. Wish I hadn't looked. Know it's nature, still........
Bayard
(22,181 posts)4. Eeeeeee.......!
Okay, I need to un-see that now.