The nominations for the Wildlife Photography Award of the Year have been revealed. Here are some of the finalists and the interesting stories behind them.
A resplendent quetzal bird feeds his two chicks in the Costa Rican cloud forest of San Gerardo de Dota.
Photographer Tyohar Kastiel every day comes to this forest before dawn, waits in the same place, wears the same shirt so that the birds that go to feed their children will not be startled.
The Iberian wildcat, an endangered cat breed, exists in only two small populations in southern Spain.
Laura Albiac Vilas's family went to the Sierra de Andújar natural park to watch, and luckily caught a pair of cats right near the path.
A pair of "sea angels" mating in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Far East. "Sea angels" are mollusks, where each individual is both male and female. This pair of mollusks is about 3 centimeters long, the mating process takes about 20 minutes, then each one continues to lay about 30-40 eggs.
The creature is called by the beautiful name - "Sea Angel".
The saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert National Reserve may be 200 years old. They grow slowly, the roots spread everywhere.
Photographer Jack Dykinga found a giant cactus that was able to step deep inside to capture this sunrise.
A seahorse rides on a plastic cotton swab at a coral reef near Sumbawa island, Indonesia, when the sea water is in a state of pollution.
Photographer Justin Hofman said that at high tide, floating rubbish covered the water.
Mountain hares fight during the mating season in the maple forest in Vauldalen, Norway.
Photographer Erlend Haarberg spent many freezing nights out in the woods tracking these "wars". He used lights in some places, but had to make sure the rabbits weren't startled.
Impala antelopes were attacked by a Nile crocodile during a drought in Kruger National Park, South Africa. After three years of little rain, water became scarce, the wildebeest came to drink, but were still wary of the crocodiles in the lake.
Photographer John Mullineux watched closely to capture the moment of the crocodile's unsuccessful attack and the spectacular leap of the antelope.
A 6-month-old tiger whose hind leg was caught in a trap and had to be amputated. The tiger was discovered in a rainforest in Aceh province on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, and is spending the next few days in the zoo.
The fierce gaze of the king of the jungle even when disabled and living in a zoo.
Mother and daughter Weddell seals swim in the icy waters of Antarctica. Weddell seals give birth on ice and teach them to swim after 1 to 2 weeks.
Photographer Laurent Ballesta said of the photo: "They look so comfortable, even in such a cold place."
The image of a large herd elephant was captured in the sunset in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Photographer David Lloyd waited for a herd of elephants to walk to a lake to capture this sharp and realistic shot.
This photo depicts an avalanche in the Himalayas, Pakistan.
Photographer Paddy Scott was here on the expedition before he was stopped by a terrifying avalanche.
A mosquito owl rests on a tire on a farm in Ecuador's Jardin de los Sueños reserve.
Photographer Jaime Culebras saw this bird hunting insects around the farm. Before sunrise, it was resting on the tire and appeared in this photo.
An arctic fox carries a snow goose egg on Wrangel Island in the Russian Far East.
Foxes bring their eggs back and bury them in the tundra to help them hatch into geese and move south.
Mother and child bear innocently playing at Lake Clark National Park in Alaska.
Photographer Ashleigh Scully shared about the photo: "The cub seems to think he is big enough to throw his mother in the sand. And the mother bear is playing with her cubs, patient and warm."
An eagle in a Dutch port on Amaknak Island in Alaska, after days of heavy rain, has a head that looks like it is bald.
Photographer Klaus Nigge spent days getting used to the eagles in the harbor, until he lured them closer.
Yoina, a 9-year-old girl from Yomibato, a remote area of Peru's Manu National Park, has a South American monkey as her pet.
Yoina are members of the Machiguenga, an indigenous hunter-gatherer group of about 1,000 people.
A pack of African wild dogs surrounds an antelope they recently hunted in Zimbabwe's Mana Pools National Park.
To capture this moment, photographer Greg du Toit had to crawl on the sand, and the light in the photo is actually the torch of a camper nearby.
A school of Atlantic seahorses forms a giant sphere 5 meters in diameter, surrounded by predatory fish.
According to photographer Jordi Chias Pujol, the fish are so dense that you can reach in and catch them easily.
At the edge of the Mýrdalsjökull cliffs in Iceland, chunks of ice cracked and fell onto the molten glacier.
Dark grooves show places where volcanic ash was deposited during the eruption.
A 15-centimeter-tall toad sits on the banks of the Tiputini River in Ecuador's Yasuní National Park.
Photographer Jaime Culebras followed the toad until it stopped and let him take this "portrait".
