Terry Donnelly, 50, from Formby, Merseyside, spent a year attempting to get the perfect shot of red squirrels leaping onto a four-foot wooden climbing frame he made topped with nuts in his garden.
A large elephant carcass was found on top of a squashed Nile crocodile after the mammal is likely to have collapsed on the reptile at the Island Bush Camp next to the Luangwa River in Zambia.
The winners of the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2019 have been announced and the top spot was taken by two experts from New York City.
Zoologists led fromthe Universiti Sains Malaysia have been studying the ecology and behaviour of Southern pig-tailed macaques in the Segari Melintang Forest Reserve in Malaysia since 2016.