Best Pics From Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Contest

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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Natural History Museum, showcases the very best of Nature

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This year, a dreamy image of a young polar bear drifting to sleep on an iceberg won the top award

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4 other images were 'Highly Commended', including Tzahi Finkelstein's ‘The happy turtle', featuring a Balkan pond turtle

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The second one is 'Starling Murmuration' showcasing mesmerising movements of starlings in the sky

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Mark Boyd's 'Shared Parenting' pic features lionesses grooming a cub in Kenya's Maasai Mara

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The fourth one is Audun Rikardsen's 'Aurora Jellies', showing jellyfish swarming in fjord in Norway illuminated by the aurora borealis

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Other stunning images include 'Neighbourhood Dispute' by Ofer Levy, showcasing a mudskipper defending its territory from a crab

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'Troublemaker', featuring an Adelie penguin, an emperor penguin and its chick

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'Swallow Over Meadow' featuring a barn swallow flying over cornflowers

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'Duckling Huddle' by Charles Davis, featuring a wood duck and its brood

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