Andy Rouse / Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) silhouetted by beams of light from setting sun, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Winner of the African section of the Natures Best Windland Smith Rice...

Chase Dekker / African Lion (Panthera leo) male, Masai Mara, Kenya

Chase Dekker / African Lion (Panthera leo) cub, Masai Mara, Kenya

Winfried Wisniewski / African Lion (Panthera leo) male, Masai Mara, Kenya

Winfried Wisniewski / African Lion (Panthera leo) males nuzzling, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) curious male investigating camera, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd crossing river, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) smelling, Masai Mara, Kenya

Denis-Huot / Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), female and calf at sunset, with Abdim's storks in flight, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Jaymi Heimbuch / Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) picking parasites off of Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer), Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd in plain, Masai Mara, Kenya

Graeme Guy/ BIA / African Lion (Panthera leo) female suffocating Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) prey, Masai Mara, Kenya