Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The internationally-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 has released a special selection of the images named as finalists in the 57th edition of its prestigious competition , which this year drew a record-breaking number of entries from more than 50,000 photographers in 95 countries. From lynx making a comeback and Narwhal shrimp communicating at great depths to the photo above showing the world's only recorded group of five male cheetahs trying to cross an overflown river, this year's Highly Commended images offer a unique and fascinating record of the state of our wilderness, and will be part of London's Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. The cheetahs' story Monstrous rains in Masai Mara Kenya during January 2020 caused a major river to flood and swell larger and more violent than ever before. The Tano Bora (Maasai for "magnificent five"), an unusually large grouping thought to comprise two pairs of brothers joined later by a single male, were trying to cross its terrifyingly powerful currents and seemed doomed to failure. Many cheetahs die in efforts to cross much less daunting waters. "After hours of careful searching along the banks, they suddenly… Read full this story
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