Cock-a-doodle Doo !
It is a Frenchman, Laurent Ballesta, who wins the prize for animal photo of the year with this shot of groupers in full breeding activity.
Indeed, we now know the winners of "Wildlife Photographer of the Year", the most prestigious wildlife photography competition in the world.
Organized by the "Natural History Museum in London", it rewards each year the best photographs selected by an international jury.
Here are the winners of the year 2021.
Director:
Olivier JUSZCZAK
Photo of the year and “underwater” category (Laurent Ballesta, France)
The photographer scans the depths in Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia, as a trio of camouflaged groupers emerge from their milky cloud of eggs and sperm.
Fish in full reproduction, a phenomenon that occurs once a year, around the full moon in July.
Category "Plants and fungi" (Justin Gilligan, Australia)
A ranger's reflection among the seaweed on Lord Howe Island.
The impacts of climate change, such as rising water temperature, are affecting reefs at an ever increasing rate.
Category "Photojournalism" (Adam Oswell, Australia)
Elephant tourism has increased across Asia.
In Thailand, there are now more elephants in captivity than in the wild.
Although this performance was promoted as educational and as an exercise for the elephants, the photohrapher was disturbed by this scene.
Category
"
Report
"
(Brent Stirton, South Africa)
The photojournalist portrays a rehabilitation center caring for chimpanzees orphaned by the bushmeat trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Category "Behavior: Mammals" (Stefano Unterthiner, Italy)
On the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, photographer Stefano Unterthiner has immortalized these two male reindeer in the midst of a confrontation.
Category "Animals in their environment" (Zack Clothier, United States)
A camera trap set near the carcass of an elk attracts the curiosity of a grizzly bear.
Category "Behavior: Invertebrates" (Gil Wizen, Israel / Canada)
These spiders are common in the humid areas and temperate forests of eastern North America.
The woven bag can hold up to 750 eggs.
A sack of eggs that the spider carries with it until they hatch.
Category
"
Urban life
"
(Gil Wizen, Israel / Canada)
Imagine looking under your bed and finding the 2nd most poisonous spider in the world, which is also one of the largest, sitting there guarding a thousand baby spiders that have hatched from an egg sac.
This is what happened to the photographer when he met this
Phoneutria will do
in Ecuador.
Category "Behavior: Birds" (Shane Kalyn, Canada)
In a ski resort near Vancouver, this pair of birds seems inseparable.
This gesture is part of the bird's courtship display.
Category "Behavior: Amphibians and Reptiles" (João Rodrigues, Portugal)
Courtship act II ... with these pleurodeles of Waltl, a species of salamander which evolves in the Iberian peninsula.
Rising Star Award (Martin Gregus, Canada)
Two polar bears took refuge in the shallow waters of Hudson Bay to cool off and play.
The photo was taken with a drone.
Category "Animal portraits" (Majed Ali, Kuwait)
A female mountain gorilla called Kibande, in the Bwindi Forest in Uganda.
Category
"
Oceans: overview
" (Jennifer Hayes, United States)
Blood paints the surface as a herd of harp seals calves on unstable and fractured sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada.
Category "Wetlands" (Javier Lafuente, Spain)
The Odiel marshes in southern Spain.
Category "Natural art" (Alex Mustard, United Kingdom)
This funny fish is a
Solenostomus paradoxus,
a species known for its prolonged body of multiple growths which gives it an unusual appearance.
He is here hidden in a star!
Category "10 years and under" (Vidyun R Hebbar, India)
While exploring her local theme park, Vidyun found a spider web in a hole in a wall.
A passing tuk-tuk (motorized rickshaw) provided a rainbow-colored backdrop to showcase the spider's silk creation.
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