Orang-utans have excellent memories and make mental maps of the forest to find fruiting trees.
Here a young male climbs 30 metres up a fruiting strangler fig entwined around a tree in the Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo – one of the few protected strongholds left for the endangered ape. Dense rainforest such as this provides a rich habitat and is essential for their survival.
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Tim is a field biologist and wildlife photojournalist with a reputation for returning from the wild with shots of nearly impossible subjects. His pioneering research in the rainforest canopy led to a PhD from Harvard University and the first of many articles for National Geographic magazine. His work has garnered numerous awards, including many in Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Edson Vandeira's image of the burnt corpse of a yacare caiman exposes the devastating impact of the Brazilian Pantanal wetland fires.
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Aerial photo of poisoned Romanian village Highly Commended in the fifty-seventh Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
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Mesmerising blood-sucking mosquito Highly Commended in the Behaviour: Invertebrates category of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 57.
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