The winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition were revealed last week.
A South African photographer won the top award for his stunning portrait of African elephants in Botswana.
For the competition, one-hundred images were selected from 43,000 entries. There were winners in 18 individual categories as well as an overall award.
Here's a selection of some of the best images, including a pouncing fox, a scene of gharial crocodiles, and the rare shot of a polar bear underwater.
You can see more photographs at the Natural History Museum website.
"Essence of Elephants"— Greg du Toit of South Africa won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for this shot of African elephants taken at a waterhole in Botswana’s Northern Tuli Game Reserve.
"Snow moment"— Jasper Doest of the Netherlands captured a Japanese macaque jumping on a rock in a hot spring.
"The Cauldron"— Sergey Gorshkov of Russia photographed Plosky Tolbachik, a volcano in central Russia, from a helicopter when it erupted last November for the first time in 36 years.
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