SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) leaping up a small waterfall in order to reach breeding grounds further upstream, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, October.
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Ingo Arndt / Red wood ant (Formica rufa) carrying construction material to anthill (fir needles), Germany.
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Jack Dykinga / Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) running to take off into flight, Boque del Apache, New Mexico, USA, December.
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Alex Hyde / Leaf-cutter ant (Atta cephalotes) carrying pieces of leaf that they have harvested back to their underground fungus garden in their nest, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
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Will Watson / Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) leaping a weir, Shrewsbury, River Severn, Shropshire, England, UK. November.
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Pedro Narra / Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas), digging nest. Bijagos Islands, Guinea Bissau. Endangered species.
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Wim van den Heever / Bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) porpoising during annual sardine run, Port St Johns, South Africa. June.
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Sven Zacek / Otter (lutra lutra) eating Gudgeon (Gobio gobio) in Southern Estonia, January.
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Pedro Narra / Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) female digging nest on beach at night, Guinea Bissau. Endangered species. 3rd Place in the SOS Especes Menacees / SOS Endangered Species Portfolio category of the Terre S...
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Jenny E. Ross / Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) jumping across a narrow gully, Eidembukta, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway. August.
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Cyril Ruoso / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) baby reaching up to mother's hand, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Eric Baccega / Afar men mining salt at Lake Assale. Danakil depression, Afar region, Ethiopia, March 2015.