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Nature can be majestic, heart -warming and terrible parts. The winning entries of the BMC ecology and evolution of 2025 and the BMC zoological image competition illustrate this complexity in spades.
Biologists, zoologists and paleontologists from all over the world broadcast submissions to this year’s competition. The photos were sorted in four categories: “Collective social behavior”, “life in motion”, “colorful strategies” and “research in action”. But the overall winner (in the headline picture above) was a snapshot of Andrey Giljov, which showed two male Saiga antelopes in a sparring match as part of her preparation for the mating season. Of course, this includes the heads with potential competitors.
“Saiga fights calmly and more for training than for the status in spring outside the tournament season. editorial Detailing the competitive winners.
The annual photo competition in the second year is a joint venture from Journal’s BMC ecology and development and BMC zoology. It is the successor of competitions that were run separately by the two magazines. The photos are assessed by the editors and high -ranking members of the magazines of the editorial committee. This year’s winning entries and close seconds showed some of the greatest creatures on earth and its little ones.
If you have a typical example of the fact that Alwin Hardenbol’s incredible photo of a Breppping Buckelwals, which he held out of a rigid inflatable boat in Varanger, Norway.
“Breaching is a fascinating behavior from a scientific point of view, since it is still not conclusive what purpose it fulfills,” said Hardenbol, a researcher on the Finland of the Natural Resources Institute, whose photo was a second place in the life category. “It is incredible to imagine how such an animal can jump out of the water.”
Sritam Kumar Sethy, a student at Berhampur University in India, won the category for collective social behavior for his photo of new slip Acanthocoris Scabber (A kind of leaf foot bugs) nymphs that gather on the underside of a sheet-a survival strategy that has strength in numbers. “By getting together, they improve their protection against predators and reduce the likelihood that every person will loot,” said Sethy.
The entries have also recorded the infinite struggle for resources between animals such as Delip K. Haliastur -Indians (A medium-sized bird of prey, which is also known as Brahminy dragons))) must go to the extra mile for dinner.
“A Brahminy kite just had an eel captive and still agonizing fish. When the kite ran to secure his catch in flight, another challenger appeared who tried to kidnap the food,” said that, which was not won, but was guaranteed as high. “The dramatic moment developed over the waters beaten by mangroves and reflected the intensity and mobility of raptors in the wild.”
Some pictures have not emphasized the current state of the natural world, but their distant past. The digital artist Natalia Jagielsk won the “Life in Motion” category for her illustration of Pterosaur, which flew through the Hebridean basin of the Jurassic and which is now called Scotland. Jagielsk, a postdoctor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supported her work on the recent discovery of two Pterosaur skeletons, which are part of various species in the region.
“Despite their different harmful anatomies, the teething of teeth and wings, these Pterosaurs were able to interact and compete in times of environmental stress for food,” said Jagielsk, who was part of a team that was that described One of these species, Director. “This picture portrayed these flying reptiles on the hunt along the coast 170 million years ago in Central Jura.”
My personal favorite selection is either lovable, rough or both, depending on your tolerance towards insects and the harvest. Nick Royle, a second place in the category of collective and social behavior, took a photo of a mother Nicrophorus Vespilloides (A kind of beetle) that you feed young – from what I mean, spit back the remains of a buried mouse carcass. In addition to this unique feeding strategy, the burial of beetles are also one of the few insects that often share custody for their descendants, whereby both parents help with rearing.
“This behavior usually occurs underground and is usually not visible to us, but is shown here in the laboratory, where these digging beetles are used as a model to understand the development of social behavior such as parental care,” said Royle, a behavioral ecologist and nature conservation biologist at the University of Exeter in Great Britain. “These beetles work together to bury Kadaver to avoid the competition from other users of carts and, as soon as they are certainly underground, process the carcass, roll the fur into a ball and smear them with antimicrobial secretions to combat the bacteria and the mushrooms that would otherwise consume this valuable resource.”
Well, from now on I will appreciate my parents’ homemade meals.
There are much more breathtaking pictures of this year’s competition that can be seen Here.
