Animal Behaviour; All Other Animals category winner:
Raindrop refresher by András Mészáros (Hungary)This is a category for photographs of animals that are not mammals or birds; in other words, the majority of animals on Earth. Most of them behave in ways that are seldom witnessed and little known or understood. After a summer shower, Andras headed off to his local forest to take photographs. He specializes in pictures taken around his home near Lake Velence in Hungary; in particular, close-ups. In a sunny glade, he noticed lots of red ants running up and down a flowering common mallow, feeding on the sugar secretions of aphids sucking from the buds. Here, one of the ants sips from a raindrop balanced on a mallow petal.
Photograph: András Mészáros /Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year