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Ingo Arndt

It's possible to identify a snake species by its shed skin (pictured, an Aesculapian snakeskin).

For this image of a puma in Patagonia attempting to take down a guanaco, shot for a December 2018 National Geographic story, Ingo Arndt shared the top award in the ‘mammal behaviour‘ category with Yongqing Bao. No one had photographed this hunt in detail before, Arndt says.

The Susa group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, was the subject of famous primatologist Dian Fossey’s work. Little is known about how gorillas respond to death.

After lying in wait behind a wall of shrubs for an hour—then stalking her prey over a hundred yards of rough grassland for another half hour— puma Sarmiento leaps upon a guanaco. A strong and mature male, he moves sideways, escaping his sharpclawed foe.

Pincushion shrubs and shards of rock don’t trouble the puma known as Sarmiento, at centre, or her 11-month-old cubs, huddled up at the end of a winter’s day above Lake Sarmiento, near Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. The matriarch, who has raised several generations of cubs, spends most of her time hunting— and napping—along this waterfront.

Two four-month-old puma cubs playing in a tree. Puma cubs are able to hunt small prey on their own at six months old, but they don’t leave their mother’s side until they are two years old.

Two four-month-old puma cubs playing in a tree. Puma cubs are able to hunt small prey on their own at six months old, but they don’t leave their mother’s side until they are two years old.

A female puma, known to park officials as Colmillo, and her three cubs scan the horizon in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park.

Two puma cubs stride across a rolling hill just before sunrise. Pumas are most active at dusk and dawn.

A beach in Chile where a family of pumas was known to frequent. The family would hide among the rocks to avoid humans and other pumas.