Wim van den Heever / Lion (Panthera leo) crossing water, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Ben Hall / Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in flight over mountain peaks with glacier in the distance, Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile. Winner of Landscape category, Nature's Best / Windland S...

Jack Dykinga / Lightning storm with rainbow over Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) near Redrock, Arizona State Trust, Sonoran Desert, Arizona. September 2015. Long exposure with lightning trigger.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Last light on the top of Everest (8848m), Sagarmatha National Park (World Heritage UNESCO). Khumbu / Everest Region, Nepal, Himalaya, October 2011.

Mark MacEwen / Snares island crested penguin (Eudyptes robustus) colony in forest, Snares Island, New Zealand.

Denis-Huot / Serval (Leptailurus serval) pouncing, Masai-Mara game reserve, Kenya.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Jaguar (Panthera onca palustris) dragging a Yacare Caiman (Caiman yacare) onto the bank of the Piquiri River. The Pantanal wetlands of Mato Grosso State, Brazil, October.

Stephen Dalton / Flying lizard (Draco volans) gliding, controlled conditions, from Indonesia

Jouan & Rius / Water falling down waterfall in rainforest, Dorringo National Park, New South Wales, Australia

John Waters / Barn Owl (Tyto alba) hunting/hovering, Somerset, UK, trained bird.

Ingo Arndt / Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria capito) adult animals feeding and resting in grass, near Isalo National Park, Madagascar. August 2013.

Stephen Dalton / Grass moth (Agriphila tristella) Sussex, England, UK, August.

Konrad Wothe / Black and white ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) climbing through rainforest trees, East Madagascar, Africa

Tim Laman / Wilson's Bird of Paradise (Cicinnurus respublica) adult male clearing leaves from his court. West Papua, New Guinea

Tim Laman/Nat Geo Image Collection / Wilson's Bird of Paradise (Cicinnurus respublica) male displays to female from a small sapling in the middle of his display court, Papua New Guinea

Sandesh Kadur / Tiger (Panthera tigris) camouflaged amongst tall grass, looking back at photographer. Assam, India, January.

Tim Laman / Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) male at his bower decorated with green glass, white plastic, grey plastic, and other decorations. This bower is very close to a road visible behind. James Cook Un...

Alex Hyde / Leaf-tailed gecko {Uroplatus sikorae} camouflaged on mossy tree trunk in rainforest. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.

Stephen Dalton / Green / Meadow spider (Micrommata virescens) with hoverfly prey, UK, A very fast moving species that hunts by predation

Andy Rouse / Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) running carrying baby, Berenty Private Reserve, Madagascar

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Sunlight filtering through trees of ^várzea^ flooded Amazon forest on the banks of the Amazonas River, Amazonas State, Northern Brazil.