London can come across as a bit of an aggressive city, especially when it comes to grumpy commuters on the Tube.
The hostility is even felt by the capital’s mice, two of whom can be seen scrapping in this perfectly timed photo on a London Underground platform.
Sam Rowley’s ‘Station Squabble’ is this year’s winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People’s Choice award.
Some 28,000 nature photography fans voted on a shortlist of 25 images and crowned the Bristol based snapper as this year’s favourite.
In a bid to capture some of the capital’s wildlife, Sam lay waiting on a tube platform for some rodents to make an appearance.
He only saw them fight over food a few times, possibly because so many scraps were scattered across the floor.
Sam said the fight he photographed only lasted for a second before one grabbed a crumb and made a dash.
He was up against some tough competition including Martin Buzora’s touching image of ranger’s bond with an orphaned black rhino.
Michel Zoghzoghi’s ‘Matching Outfits’ shows a mother jaguar and her cub working together as a team, carrying a slain anaconda with patterns very similar to their own.
An upsetting shot of a boxing glove-clad orangutan sitting in the ring shows the degrading performances animals have been forced to take part in at Safari World, Bangkok.
The shortlist of images was chosen by the Natural History Museum from over 48,000 images submitted for its 2019 competition.
Sam’s entry will be displayed in at the museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition until it closes on 31 May 2020.
