A leopard atop an Indian mountain range.

An elephant throws up a cloud of dust, a bear leans into the camera lens, and a bug leaves a trail in the night sky. The Nature Photographer of the Year contest showcases our planet's stunning residents and the places they call home. The images were submitted by over 8000 people.

An African elephant uses its trunk to blow dust on its face.

An elephant is blowing dust into the air in a crater. Elephants don't sweat like humans so they will wallow in mud baths and dust themselves to keep cool.

A caracal holds a flaming in its jaws.

A caracal caught a bird in the water of the lake. The wild cat is moving with it's food. The category winner for animal behavior was taken by this photo.

A grizzly bear with ice on its face fur.

This shot of a haggard bear won the camera traps category of the competition and gave you an idea of how it was taken. The polar bear's fur began to freeze in December due to the cold weather in Canada.

A snow leopard in the Ladakh mountain range of India.

A snow leopard is in a mountain range in India. The photographer had to scale the snowy mountain to plant the camera trap in order for the viewer to see the leopard.

Two spokes of a lava flow in iceland.

There is lava from a volcano in the country. An abstract design is conjured out of the molten rock's path by this photo.

Lighting strikes in the background of this image of a sunflower in a trash dump.

The winner of the landscape category has a single flower from a rubbish dump. A lightning strike can be seen in the distance.

A moth is covered in little yellow dots of pollen in this focused image.

A micro-moth is adorned in small golden beads of pollen from a flower Each photo captures a different part of the bedazzled insect in this picture.

A moth in the Hungarian sky, a blur indicating its flight path.

One summer evening in Hungary, a multi-exposure image of a moths shows how it moves across the sky. The dark trees frame the path of the moths.

The northern lights arc above a waterfall creating a rainbow.

Several phenomena are much bigger than us. A green line is visible in the sky. The horizon is traced by ice. A rainbow is visible from a large waterfall.

The Milky Way above a small building in Australia.

A small building is shown in the northern reaches of Kosciusko, Australia, the highest point on the planet. Above the building there is a clear view of the entire Milky Way.

A lone grebe swimming on the seemingly black water of a pond.

A great crested grebe is walking across a pond in Poland. The focus of the photo is on the plane on which the grebe swims.

Two bright green parakeets fight over a wooden post.

This shot of two parakeets is from the Under 16 category. Birds were fighting over a stump. Birds don't like sharing is caring.

A gobble guts opens his mouth to reveal a plenty of orange fish eggs.

The fish in this picture is carrying eggs in his mouth. The males hold the eggs in their mouths until the young turkeys are ready to hatch. The picture was taken off the coast of Australia.

A grey ray swims through black-and-white fish in the ocean.

The image won a category. A pink whipray splits a school of bannerfishes in the evening off the coast of theMaldives. The placement of the bannerfishes gives a sense of depth.

An oval rail tunnel glows blue due to glowworms on its ceiling.

The old train station in Helensburg is filled with glow worms. The waterfall at right is caused by the soft flow of a waterfall in this photo.

The silhouette of a hare hopping across the street.

A hare is crossing a street at night. The streets are crowded with humans during the day, so many wild animals won't make such a trek. Animals have more freedom in the dark.

A fox stares at the camera in a forest.

The mountain of Switzerland has a fox in it. The fox realized too late that it was going to be photographed and is questioning its photographer. The animal has an orange coat and a brown tree trunk.

A lion stares at the viewer between two other lions.

This is a head-on look at a male lion. The lions are eating a young buffalo they felled. In a shot that shows the animal's intensity, the lion looked up directly at the camera.

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