Wildlife winners
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1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Title: baboon Baboon Portrait
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2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Title: Taijitu A red crane cleaning its own feathers looks like a taijitu. A taijitu is a symbol representing Taiji which contains one circle with an inner pattern of symmetry representing yin and yang.
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3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Title: Facing Courage A young male lion looks straight down the lens; courage looks right at you, fearless and strong.
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Honorable Mention Title: Flying flamingos Kenya 2017. Flying flamingoes on an overcast day cut the photo in two: in the foreground there is the water of the lake and in the background one can guess the colors of the forest.
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Honorable Mention Title: Bark Cape Fur Seals are pretty territorial and will not hesitate to swim directly at you barking bubbles in a show of aggression to ward off would be predators or intruders to their domain.
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Honorable Mention Title: Azzurro
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Honorable Mention Title: Endangered UK Red Squirrel An endangered Red Squirrel in the snow in Scotland. The Grey Squirrel, brought over from the US, carries a disease that the Red Squirrel cannot tolerate.
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Honorable Mention Title: Trumpeter Swans Trumpeter swans at sunset, St. Croix River, Wisconsin
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Honorable Mention Title: Winged A stunning blue and gold macaw in flight.
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Honorable Mention Title: Hope is a Light in the Night A wild black rhino enters a waterhole in during the night. There are only about 1.750 black rhinos left in Namibia.
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Honorable Mention Title: Reflection#1
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Honorable Mention Title: Pride To Be Pigeon A portrait of a racing pigeon
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Honorable Mention Title: Lusitano Stallion Portrait Portrait of Cartola, the Lusitano Stallion
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Honorable Mention Title: Chaos Who is eating? Who lives? The labyrinth in chaos.
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Honorable Mention Title: Hover A White Cheeked Honey Eater hovers beside the flower spike of a Xanthorrhoea. These flower spikes are made up of hundreds of individual flowers which each give a drop of nectar as a reward.
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Honorable Mention Title: Seriously Rhino in Nepal Bardia National Park
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Honorable Mention Title: Rainforest Rana Red-Eyed Tree Frog in the rainforest in Costa Rica
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Honorable Mention Title: Hunter A funky little Gecko hunting a bug under the leaf of a large red flower. Shot in Hawaii.
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Honorable Mention Title: Sheep Sheep, New Zealand
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Honorable Mention Title: A fox trail
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Honorable Mention Title: Whale Trail Vava'u, Tonga. This male Humpback Whale spent over an hour playing in the water and interacting around us, putting on an incredible show for the camera. It was an incredible interaction in the wild wh
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Honorable Mention Title: Cheetah catches squirrel South Africa 2016. Cheetah hunting and catching a ground squirrel... in the end the squirrel was able to escape from the cheetah's mouth into its burrow... and survived.
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Honorable Mention Title: Bait fish swirl The huge tides in the Kimberley region of Western Australia engulf the mangroves along the shoreline, bait fish swirl around the leaves and branches as they find relief from predators lurking nearby.
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