13 riveting images from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

From a hyena stalking an abandoned diamond mining town to a pile of seething rattlesnakes. Dennis had been keeping an eye out for wild cats such as servals for several days when a call came over the radio: one had been seen at Ndutu Lake. It was a caracal, successfully hunting wading lesser flamingos. Caracals have a varied diet, from insects to antelope, and are renowned for the acrobatic leaps they make to snatch birds from the air. But there are few, if any, records of them hunting flamingos.