A portrait of two golden snub-nosed monkeys has won the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
The pair were snapped by Dutch photographer Marsel van Oosten in the temperate forest of China鈥檚 Qinling mountains, the only place where this endangered species lives. 鈥淭his image is a symbolic reminder of the beauty of nature and how impoverished we are becoming as nature is diminished,鈥� says Roz Kidman Cox, a member of the judging panel.
The photography competition is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum in London, and gave prizes in a range of categories.
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This resting leopard in Botswana鈥檚 Mashatu Game Reserve earned Skye Meaker the Grand Title prize for young photographers aged 15 to 17.
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Cristobal Serrano won the Animals In Their Evironment category with this picture of crabeater seals sharing space on a small ice floe in the Errera Channel at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Georgina Steytler photographed these mud-dauber wasps using mud to add egg chambers to their nests in听Walyormouring Nature Reserve, Western Australia, earning her the prize for best invertebrate photo.
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This young female mountain gorilla isn鈥檛 holding a bundle of roots 鈥� it鈥檚 a tiny corpse. Believed to have been born during bad weather in Uganda鈥檚 Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, the baby gorilla likely died of cold.听Ricardo N煤帽ez Montero won the prize for mammal behaviour with his photograph of its mourning mother.
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The bird behaviour prize went to this picture of vampire finch feeding upon a boobie on a remote northern听Gal谩pagos island, taken by Thomas P Peschak.
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The winner of the Amphibians and Reptiles category was this epic scene from a struggle between a northern water snake and a hungry hellbender, a听species of giant salamander.听David Herasimtschuk snapped the fight in the Tellico River in Tennessee.
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The photojournalism award went to听Joan de la Malla, who photographed this young long-tailed macaque forced to wear a mask in street performances in Surabaya, Indonesia.
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This image of a large treehopper guarding her family of nymphs was one of six images that won听Javier Aznar Gonz谩lez de Rueda the Wildlife Photographer Portfolio Award.
An exhibition of the short-listed entries will open at the Natural History Museum on 19 October.
