Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award shortlist revealed

Public will now have the chance to vote for their favourite photograph

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  EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29 NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE, NO CROPPING, CAN ONLY BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM'S WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION MANDATORY CREDIT: Nima Sarikhani/Wildlife Photographer of the Year THE FOLLOWING MUST APPEAR CLEARLY AND LEGIBLY IN EDITORIAL COPY: Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. Undated handout photo issued by Natural History Museum of Ice Bed by Nima Sarikhani, UK, of a polar bear in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, which has been shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award. Issue date: Wednesday November 29, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Photography. Mandatory credit should read: Nima Sarikhani/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

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  Swallow Over Meadow, by Hermann Hirsch / Jan Lessman, shows a barn swallow flying over a meadow of cornflowers in eastern Germany

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  The Happy Turtle by Tzahi Finkelstein captures a Balkan pond turtle with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Israel's Jezreel Valley

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  Aurora Jellies by Audun Rikardsen shows a moon jellyfish swarm in a fjord outside Tromso, northern Norway, illuminated by the Northern Lights

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  A bull elephant kicks rubbish as it scavenges at a dump in Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka, in Bull In A Garbage Dump by Brent Stirton

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  Starling Murmuration by Daniel Dencescu captures a murmuration above Rome, Italy

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  Curiosity by Gerald Hinde shows lions in South Africa's Greater Kruger National Park

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  A pygmy round-eared bat returns to its termite-nest home in the lowland forests of Costa Rica in Homecoming by Dvir Barkay

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  Opportunity Fox by Matt Maran shows a young red fox inside a rubbish bin in London

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  Looking At Me, Looking At You by John E Marriott captures a grizzly bear in the Chilko River, British Columbia, Canada

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  An Adelie penguin approaches an emperor penguin and its chick at feeding time in Antarctica's Atka Bay in Troublemaker by Stefan Christmann

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  Snowshoes by Deena Sveinsson, of a snowshoe hare in the Rocky Mountain National Park, US

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  Neighbourhood Dispute by Ofer Levy, of a mudskipper fiercely defending its territory from a trespassing crab in Roebuck Bay, Australia

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  The Grassland Geladas by Marco Gaiotti, of Gelada monkeys in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia

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  Missed Sip of Milk by Karim Iliya, of a humpback whale calf missing some of its mother's milk off the coast of Rurutu, French Polynesia

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  Hope by Roberto Garcia-Roa, of a rescued chimpanzee looking out of its enclosure at the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre in the Republic of Guinea

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  Incoming Cuckoo Wasp by Frank Deschandol, of a cuckoo wasp trying to enter a mason bee's clay burrow near Montpellier, France

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  Shared Parenting by Mark Boyd, of lions in Maasai Mara, Kenya

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  A Rare Sight by Axel Gomille, of an Ethiopian wolf in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains National Park

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  Tender Touch by Andy Parkinson, of two courting mountain hares in the Monadhliath Mountains in Scotland

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  Rubbish Drinks by Claire Waring, of a Celebes crested macaque investigating the contents of a plastic bottle from a pile ready for recycling on a beach at the edge of Tangkoko Batuangus Nature Reserve, Indonesia

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  Fashion Victims by Britta Jaschinski, of confiscated coats made from the skins of endangered big cats in Hamburg

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  Autumn Glow by Uge Fuertes Sanz, of bullrushes and quaking aspens at the Cabriel River in the Sierra de Albarracin mountains, Spain

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  Duckling Huddle by Charles Davis, of wood ducks in a late spring snowstorm in Smiggin Holes, New South Wales, Australia

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  Tough Negotiation by Ayala Fishaimer, of a red fox cub with a shrew in the Judean Foothills, Israel

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