He beat more than 42,000 entries across 96 countries for the coveted prize.
Advertisement
The Natural History Museum, which co-owns the prestigious competition with BBC Wildlife, announced the award on Monday. Victor: Young Wildlife Photographers, 15-17 years old(Jonathan Jagot/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015)A whale of a mouthful. We’ve assembled a few of our favourites here.
“A Tale of Two Foxes” by Canadian physician Don Gutoski impressed a panel of professional judges with its haunting story of the battle for survival in Cape Churchill. The photo, entitled A Tale of Two Foxes, depicts a red fox with a dead Arctic fox in its grasp. Award-winning photos are chosen for their artistic composition, technical innovation and truthful interpretation of the natural world, according to the Natural History Museum. Gutoski is an accident and emergency doctor and uses photography as a way to de-stress after a busy day.
The top 100 images feature in The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which opens in London on Friday. Surprising behavior, witnessed in Wapusk national park, on Hudson Bay, Canada, in early winter. The park sits at a latitude where the ranges of both fox species intersect, and they often engage in deadly interactions. By the time he reached the red fox, it had already killed the arctic fox and had begun to feed.
During a trip in Northern Manitoba, Gutoski noticed a red fox hunting and realized that an Arctic fox was its prey. Red foxes don’t actively hunt Arctic foxes, but where the territories of the two predators overlap, there can be conflict.
Advertisement
Kathy Moran, senior editor for natural history projects at National Geographic and a jury member of the contest, said it was one of the strongest storytelling photos she’s even seen.
