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Ingo Arndt

Beekeepers inspect hives in Australia. A recent paper found unique microbial signatures from bee hives worldwide, a result of their wanderings throughout their environment.

Worker bees construct a new comb out of beeswax in Langen, Germany. After entering the nest the bees clean themselves off—and leave behind hints of their travels for researchers to study.

A study at a zoo in the United Kingdom noted the presence of over 20 species of captive animals—but also found the DNA of a wild Eurasian hedgehog that keepers regularly saw wandering the grounds.

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.