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1 RED FACED
My best friend and I were driving to Orpen Gate in Kruger National Park, South Africa, when he spotted this southern ground hornbill. We stopped the car and I started snapping away. I had to keep zooming out as the bird kept coming closer. Suddenly I couldn’t zoom out any more so I took the camera away, only to realise that the hornbill was right next to the driver’s window. Jessica Murray,
4 A TUG WITH A TRUNK
While in Botswana’s Chobe Safari Park, I witnessed this tender moment between a mother elephant and her calf. The baby was struggling to climb a ridge and after three or four unsuccessful attempts mum gently wrapped her trunk around the youngster and helped it clamber up. Richard Tadman, Huddersfield, UK
3 THE EYES HAVE IT
These young crocs are part of a breeding programme in Laguna Ventanilla, Mexico. The area’s crocodile population has suffered due to hunting and habitat loss but is returning to health thanks to this breeding programme. These juvenile reptiles were in a tank – along with some brave-looking turtles – on their way to be released. Danni Thompson, Kent, UK
2 STILL-LIFE ARTIST
The shot was taken in some woodland near our local quarry. I feed the birds there and I noticed a vole coming out to collect scraps of food the birds had dropped. I started putting food down for the vole and it snowballed from there. It took a few months but the vole will now take peanuts from my hand. I took this picture with a Nikon D500. The vole was using a D7100. Steve Gray, Derbyshire, UK
5 EATING ON THE FLY
I was in my garden one morning when I saw this jumping spider hunting a housefly so I ran inside to grab my camera and started following the pursuit. The spider was very fast, so it was quite hard to get the right shot. I had to take seven photos with different focuses and stacked them together to get everything in focus. Mostafa Ghroz, Jerusalem, Israel
6 FOLLOW ME!
I got this shot while diving off Playa Piskado, on the northern tip of Curaçao. There were some hawksbill turtles feeding on fish being thrown back by local fishermen. The turtles were initially afraid of us but soon grew comfortable with our presence. We were down there clicking away for over two hours so it was great to see the end result. Luiz Felipe Puntel, Belo Horizonte, Brazil