Nature is sex videos mother and son have a babya beautiful, brutal place.
The 16 "highly commended" entries in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 Awards, run by the Natural History Museum in London, provide colourful — and sometimes shocking — proof of this.
The finalists feature everything from endangered species in Vietnam to out-of-control forest fires in Brazil. Some are beautifully-captured vignettes of life in the animal kingdom, while others provide evidence of the devastating impact human beings are having on the earth.
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The winners will be announced on Oct. 13, but it'll be a hard task for the judges. Here are the finalists:
A grey reef shark cruising alongside molluscs over the Fakarava Atoll, in French Polynesia. Credit: laurent ballesta 
Tall Araucaria trees piercing through a beech forest in Chile's Araucanía region. Credit: Andrea Pozzi 
A squirrel makes its escape from a pair of Ural owls in a forest on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Credit: Makoto Ando 
An encounter with an endangered red-shanked douc langur near Vietnam's Son Tra Nature Reserve. Credit: Arshdeep Singh 
An out of control forest fire in Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil. Credit: Charlie Hamilton James 
A hippopotamus in the drought-stricken Mara River, in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve. Credit: JoseFragozo 
Two foxes tussle over a dead rat in a North London allotment. Credit: Matthew Maran 
A large male gharial provides a raft for his offspring in the National Chambal Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Credit: Dhritiman Mukherjee 
A brown bear snatching a salmon in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. Credit: Hannah Vijayan 
Two possums hiding beneath the roof of a holiday park shower block in Yallingup, Western Australia. Credit: Gary Meredith 
A large wandering spider devouring the egg of a giant glass frog in Manduriacu Reserve, northwestern Ecuador. Credit: Jaime Culebras 
A pair of Atlantic puffins, captured on the Farne Islands. Credit: Evie Easterbook 
Yellow-billed choughs on the Alpstein Massif of the Swiss Alps. Credit: Alessandra Meniconzi 
A section of Mildred Lake Tar Mine in Northern Alberta, Canada — an area that used to be boreal forest. Credit: Garth Lenz 
The dark reality of the bushmeat market, taken at the Tomohon Market in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Quentin Martinez 
A memorial to the albatrosses caught by the longlines of Japanese tuna-fishing boats of the coast of South Africa. Credit: Thomas P Peschak If you happen to be in London, the images will be displayed in an exhibition at London's Natural History Museum from Friday, Oct. 16.