RE: https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/116128816590698167

The eye of the Mastodon?

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I'd prefer to see it in the bottom left corner of the browser instead of the current grey drawing...

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Trash trail temptations
Polar bear, Churchill, Manitoba, #Canada. Gold in the Urban wildlife category.

Photograph: Robert Gloeckner/World Nature Photography awards

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#PolarBears

Ghost of the reef
Ghost goby, Marsa Alam, Egypt. Gold in the Nature art category.

Photograph: Simon Biddie/World Nature Photography awards

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#fish

Water ballet
Giraffe, Boteti River, Makgadikgadi Pans national park, #Botswana. Gold in the Behaviour – Mammals category.

Photograph: Vaidehi Chandrasekar/World Nature Photography awards

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#giraffes

Home on the leaves
Moss moth larva, tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna, China. Gold in the Behaviour – Invertebrates category.
Photograph: Minghui Yuan/World Nature Photography awards

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#larva

Arrival
Great egret, Kraft Azalea Garden, Winter Park, Florida. Gold in the Behaviour – Birds category.
Photograph: Fenqiang Liu/World Nature Photography awards

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#birds
#egrets

Kayla, a 37-year-old 61.2kg female, in the procedure room with her stomach shaved for an ultrasound at the Save the Chimps chimpanzee sanctuary, Fort Pierce, Florida. Socks have been placed on her extremities and a fur hat with flaps on her head to avoid hypothermia. Gold in the Nature photojournalism category.

Photograph: Alain Schroeder/World Nature Photography awards

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#chimps

Sunbathing
Adult pond slider turtle, Madison, Alabama, USA. Gold in the Black and white category.

Photograph: Christopher Baker/World Nature Photography awards

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#turtles

Climate change
Ilha do Cardoso state park in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Bronze in the Planet Earth’s landscapes and environments category.

Photograph: Thiago Campi/World Nature Photography awards

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#landscape
#Brazil
#floods
#ClimateChange

Elder in flame
Elder birch, Glen Affric, Scotland. Gold in the Plants and fungi category.

Photograph: Duncan Wood/World Nature Photography awards

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#trees
#autumn
#SpanishMoss

Galactic amphibiospawn
Salamander eggs, West Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Bronze in the Nature art category.

Photograph: Mark Bernards/World Nature Photography awards

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#Salamander
#spawn

Green sea turtle surrounded by glass fish

Green sea turtle – Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Bronze in the Underwater category.

Photograph: Aimee Jan/World Nature Photography awards

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#turtles

Illusion of light
Mayflies (Ephoron virgo), Danube, Budapest. Silver in the Behaviour – Invertebrates category.

Photograph: Reka Baranyi/World Nature Photography awards

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#mayflies

Between the cracks
Chinstrap penguins, near Elephant Island, #Antarctica. Bronze in the Animals in their habitat category.

Photograph: Harry Skeggs/World Nature Photography awards

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#penguins

Bear at the tiger temple

‘A remote temple complex in India, enshrining the Tiger goddess and visited by hundreds of devotees each day, is also visited regularly by wild sloth bears from the surrounding hills scavenging for leftovers from the daytime crowd. Junwani Kala, Chhattisgarh, India. Bronze in the Urban wildlife category.

Photograph: Rajarshi Banerji/World Nature Photography awards

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#India
#bears
#tigers

Mother's love

Lioness and cub, Mara North Conservancy, Kenya. Bronze in the Animal portraits category.

Photograph: Elizabeth Yicheng Shen/World Nature Photography awards

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#lions
#cubs

Eye on the prize

Barn owl, Norfolk, England. Silver in the Behaviour – Birds category.

Photograph: Vince Burton/World Nature Photography awards

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#birds
#owls

The rugby players

Rhinos and egrets, Solio Game Reserve, #Kenya. Bronze in the Black and white category.

Photograph: Preeti and Prashant Chacko/World Nature Photography awards

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#rhinos
#birds
#egrets