The best wildlife photos taken this year reveal a hippo murder, a hungry leopard seal, and a weevil

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The best wildlife photos taken this year reveal a hippo murder, a hungry leopard seal, and a weevil ensnared by zombie fungus

https://www.businessinsider.com/best-wildlife-photos-of-2019-animals-struggle-to-survive-2019-9

The London Natural History Museum's annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition awards photographers whose work inspires us to consider our place in the natural world and our responsibility to protect it.
This year, the contest received 48,000 entries from photographers in 100 countries.
The front-runners captured images of a leopard seal lunging for a penguin, a male hippo crushing a newborn in its jaws, and a sea turtle strangled by a rope.
Here are the 14 best photographs from this year's contest.

More photos and descriptions at the link

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1. Uggh. The male hippo crushing its young is horrific. Nature is cruel.

[IronLionZion]

2. It's a metaphor for the American president

or at least that's the first thing I thought of when I saw it

[Fla Dem]

3. Wish I hadn't looked. Know it's nature, still........

[Bayard]

4. Eeeeeee.......!

Okay, I need to un-see that now.