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Behaviour: Birds – Taking Flight, Paul GoldsteinPaul arrived very early on the shores of Lake Nakuru, Kenya, before the rising sun had burned off the mist. He had returned to photograph the greater and lesser flamingos and used shade, shadow and silhouette to create drama, rather than emphasising their vivid colours with sunlight. He was helped by a combination of circum..

Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife – Apollo at Rest by Valter Binotto (Italy)Every summer, just as he has done for the past 20 years, Valter visits a colony of between 50 and 100 Apollo butterflies in the pre-Alps in the Veneto region of Italy. He keeps the location secret, for fear of butterfly collectors (the species is classified as vulnerable). "I admire th..

Beltrá took the image at a temporary bird-rescue facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. ‘Crude oil trickles off the feathers of the rescued brown pelicans, turning the white lining sheets into a sticky, stinking mess. The pelicans are going through the first stage of cleaning. They’ve already been sprayed with a light oil to break up the heavy crude trapped in their fea..

Dive robbers by Jean Tresfon For five days, Tresfon had been trying to photograph the feeding frenzy that develops when sardines and herrings migrate off South Africa's coast. His luck finally changed in clear water a few miles off Port St Johns. 'Activity was intense, with dolphins herding the fish into a ball from below, while Cape gannets rained down from above. I couldn't ..

The world in our hands awardWinner: Ice matters by Anna Henly (UK) Anna was on a boat in Svalbard an archipelago midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole when she saw this polar bear at around four in the morning. It was October, and the bear was walking on broken-up ice floes, seemingly tentatively, not quite sure where to trust its weight. She used her fisheye lens ..

Animal portraits awardWinner: Warning night light by Larry Lynch (USA) One evening, while walking along the riverbed of the Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, Florida, USA, Larry came across a group of alligators. It was the dry season, and they had been gorging on fish trapped in the pools left behind as the water receded from the river. One big alligator had clearly eaten ..

Overall winner and underwater worlds winner: Bubble-jetting emperors by Paul Nicklen (Canada) This was the image Paul had been so hoping to get: a sunlit mass of emperor penguins charging upwards, leaving in their wake a crisscross of bubble trails. The location was near the emperor colony at the edge of the frozen area of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. It was into the only likely ..

The duel, by Sergey Gorshkov In late May, about a quarter of a million snow geese arrive from North America to nest on Wrangel Island, in north-eastern Russia. They form the world's largest breeding colony of snow geese. Gorshkov spent two months on the remote island photographing the unfolding dramas. Arctic foxes take advantage of the abundance of eggs, caching surplus eggs ..

Behaviour: mammalsWinner: Practice run by Grégoire Bouguereau (France) When a female cheetah caught but didn't kill a Thomson's gazelle calf and waited for her cubs to join her, Gregoire guessed what was about to happen. He'd spent nearly a decade studying and photographing cheetahs in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, and he knew that the female s behaviour meant on..

<과학> 학대당한 새끼 새, 커서 깡패짓 美 연구진 "인간 사회 `폭력 악순환'과 놀랍도록 닮아" (서울=연합뉴스) 어려서 학대당한 새들은 자라서 이웃의 어린 새들을 괴롭히는 것으로 밝혀져 사람이나 다름없는 폭력의 악순환 현상을 보인다고 라이브사이언스 닷컴이 4일(미 동부시간) 보도했다. 미..