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All eyes open: 20 sublime images from the Nature Through The Lens photography competition
The winners of the prestigious
Nature TTL Photographer of the Year Competition 2021 have just been unveiled, with a mind-bending orang-utan image taking the grand prize.
In total, photographers competed amongst 8 different competition categories celebrating the natural world: Animal Behaviour, Camera Traps, Landscapes, Small World, The Night Sky, Underwater, Urban Wildlife, and Wild Portraits.
We bring you our favourites from a huge and impressive selection.
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Lycaon pictus) pups play in the dust seen rising from the bone dry soil. The photographer tracked them for five weeks, and took images of them in some fascinating situations in South Africa. Photo by Bence Máté/Nature TTL
Japan’s Kirin Beer University has released the results of its annual survey on global beer consumption. Their numbers break down many clichés about world beer drinkers.
The latest figures reveal that the biggest beer drinking nation in the world is the Czech Republic, and quiet comfortably, who drunk 188.6 litres per capita.
Austrians and Romanians are second and third, drinking 107.8 litres and 100.3 litres per capita respectively, with the Germans in fourth place knocking back 99 litres per capita in the year.
Croatia features very high on the list, coming in ninth in the world for the amount of beer consumed per capita.
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That Monday morning feeling: The Comedy Wildlife Awards 2021
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Now in its seventh year, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has already received thousands of entries from around the world, catching some of wildlife’s funniest moments on camera. This year, the competition organisers are releasing some of the shots that have already had them howling like hyenas, to inspire both professional and amateur photographers to enter their own images before 30 June 2021.
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What’s so funny? A young lion in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, who apparently is laughing at the photographer’s skills. Photo by Giovanni Querzani