In pictures: 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

Selected from 59,228 entries, view the winning images from the Natural History Museum’s prestigious annual competition.

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Western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) tadpoles among lily pads in a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.Credit: Shane Gross/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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A reintroduced Thalka, (the Arabana word for bilby), foraging in an ecological safe haven, Arid Recovery, in the remote deserts of South Australia.Credit: Jannico Kelk/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
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A baby toque macaque suckles milk from its mother.Credit: H.L.P. Vinod/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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A blue ground beetle is dismembered by red wood ants.Credit: Ingo Arndt/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
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The Amazon river dolphin is one of two freshwater dolphin species living in the Amazon and Orinoco basins.Credit: Thomas Peschak/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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An impressionistic vision of this perching carrion crow.Credit: Jiří Hřebíček/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
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A lynx rests with its fully grown young sheltering from the cold wind behind it.Credit: John E. Marriott/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
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A yellow anaconda coils itself around the snout of a yacaré caiman.Credit: Karine Aigner/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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A young falcon practises its hunting skills on a butterfly  above its sea-cliff nest.Credit: Jack Zhi/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
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Springtails and slime molds under a log in a forest in Berlin, Germany.Credit: Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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A curious leopard seal beneath the Antarctic ice.Credit: Matthew Smith/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
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A lynx stretching in the early evening sunshine.Credit: Igor Metelskiy/2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year