- 1st Place, Natural Environment
- David Slater/ZUMA Press
Two Cape Ground Squirrels (Xerus inauris) in a vicious fight for dominance in Etosha National Park, Namibia.
- 1st
- David Slater
- ZUMA Press
- 2nd
- JANET JENSEN
- NEW TRIBUNE
- 3rd
- Ng Guan Han
- Associated Press
- HM
- Ryan Carter
- The National
- HM
- Todd Heisler
- The New York Times
- HM
- Jeremy T. Lock
- USAF
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