Image of mice tussling wins a Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize

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Sam Rowley / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The dim light of the London Underground illuminates these two mice tussling over a morsel of food in this year’s winning entry for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People’s Choice Award. Aptly named “Station Squabble” photographer Sam Rowley was rewarded with this fleeting sight after patiently lying in wait on the platform, where mice can often be seen scurrying about in search for delicacies dropped by the millions of commuters that use the underground each day.

Highly commended

Among the highly commended entries to the award was this image by Aaron Gekoski. Almost 10,000 kilometres away in Bangkok, Thailand, it shows an orangutan in a rare moment of quiet, before it is forced to take to the stage again in front of a paying audience. Safari World continues to put on shows of orangutans boxing, dancing and playing the drums twice a day, despite international calls for it to stop.

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Aaron Gekoski Sam Rowley / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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Curious black eyes poking out from the snow greeted photographer Francis De Andres in Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic ocean. The extreme weather doesn’t seem to faze the arctic reindeer here much, who are well adapted to the freezing temperatures that can reach -20°C in some areas.

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a showcase of the world’s best nature photography, is on at the Natural History Museum in London until 31 May.

Article amended on
12 February 2020

We have corrected the award won by Sam Rowley.

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