Sometimes all three at once.
Five lionesses sleeping after driving off a male from their pride.
The Vumbi pride lives in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. In this photo, taken by Michael Nichols, five females rest with their cubs on a rocky outcrop, after attacking and driving off one of the males in the pride. Nichols had been following the lions for nearly six months, so by this point they were used to his presence. Later, he learnt that three females from the pride had been killed.
This photograph, taken in infrared, won Nichols the grand title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014.
Michael Nichols / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014
A common yellow scorpion, basking on a flat stone in Spain.
One late afternoon, Carlos Perez Naval found this scorpion in a rocky area near his home in Torralba de los Sisones in northeast Spain. It was his first ever double exposure photograph, and won him the 10-years-and-under category in Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014, as well as the grand title.
Carlos Perez Naval / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014
A Sword-billed hummingbird chasing away a Collared Inca.
The sword-billed hummingbird is the only bird with a bill longer than its body (if you exclude the tail). Its 11-centimetre (4.3-inch) bill is for reaching nectar at the bottom of long tube-shaped flowers, but turns out it's great for fending off a collard inca as it crossed the territorial bird's path.
Jan van der Greef became a finalist in the "Birds" category of the competition.
Jan van der Greef / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014
A Siberian jay in mid-flight.
Edwin Sahlin noticed Siberian jays gathering whenever he and his family stopped for lunch on a skiing holiday in northern Sweden. One day he dug a pit in the snow, planted scraps of food around the edge, climbed in, and waited – then this jay flew right over him.
The photo made him a finalist in the 15-17 years category of the Young awards.
Edwin Sahlin / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014
