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Wild photography contest at the Natural History Museum in London has rewarded the work of the Chinese Yongqing Bao played in the Qilian Mountains in China.

"It's nature," said Bao, the author of the superb image winning the grand prize of the contest Wildlife 2019 (Wildlife photographer of the year or WPY).

To obtain the image that made him instantly famous, the photographer had to watch several hours an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and thus be able to capture the tense action.

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L & # 39; embracefrom German Stefan Christmann won in the Portfolio Class. Another shocking image where thousands of emperor penguins "compact" to fight the wind and the cold on the pack ice in front of the sea Ekström platform, east of the Antarctic.

Eagle's Landfrom norwegian Audun Rikardsen prevailed in the Category of behavior: birds.

Nomads of snowy plateaus, from the Chinese photographer Shangzhen Fan won in the category Animals in their environment and reflects a herd of Tibetan antelopes crossing a snowy hill in the Kumukulo Desert in China.

The photo entitled The architectural armyof american Daniel Kronauerwon at the Behavior Category: Invertebrates. These are war ants or marabuntas of Costa Rica they build their nest with their own bodies, hanging on branches.

While the Young Photographer Award (from 11 to 14 years old) went to Erdmann Cross for his night image of a reef squid in the Lembeh Strait in the province of North Sulawesi, in Indonesia.

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