In the past two days, a panicked Chinese marmot has quickly become popular on the Internet at home and abroad. Because it happened to encounter a fierce Tibetan fox, it was frightened and frightened, and it was full of embarrassment.
Netizens shouted "cute" at the same time, in the overseas forum also launched a p-map activity, the unlucky groundhog was placed in the amusement park, bathroom places, there was no violation!
Of course, domestic netizens have not let it go, and have used it to make memes:
The frightened marmot, and the ferocious Tibetan fox, resemble the relationship between life and me...
This instantly ignited social network photo, which is not small, has just won the top prize of the 2019 British International Wildlife Photographer of the Year (hereinafter referred to as WPY).
The photographer was a Chinese photographer, Bao Yongqing, who was awarded the title of "Photographer of the Year".
Bao Yongqing at the award ceremony held the special Tibetan fox trophy of the competition
Because in the past 20 years, only a few photographers in China have won the single championship of this competition, this time the Chinese photographer won the annual championship for the first time, Qinghai photographer Bao Yongqing won this honor, and Fan Shangzhen won a single championship and a nomination award.
For the rapid output of P charts on the Internet, Bao Yongqing laughed and said: "The imagination of netizens is really too rich."
Bao Yongqing's award-winning work "Life and Death Showdown" (Source: WPY official website)
Fan Shangzhen's work "Snow Elves" (Source: WPY official website)
Fan Shangzhen's work was also nominated for the award (Source: WPY official website)
The British Wildlife Photography Annual Competition was jointly founded in 1964 by BBC Wildlife Magazine and the British Museum of Natural History, with the aim of making more people pay attention to nature and wildlife conservation through photography. It has become the world's largest and most influential, and the most authoritative top event and environmental protection activity in the field of international wildlife photography.
It is gratifying that the three award-winning works are from Sanjiangyuan National Park and Qilian Mountain National Park, reflecting the rich biodiversity and good ecological environment of Qinghai Province. The opportunity to win this award will surely play a certain publicity role in the construction of the national park demonstration province being implemented in Qinghai Province, and cause a boom in wildlife photography in Qinghai, which is undoubtedly the first voice on the international stage for Qinghai wildlife photography, which is still in its infancy.
The competition is divided into adult groups and youth groups, covering dozens of categories such as "mammals", "birds", "reptiles, amphibians and fish", "invertebrates" and "plants", among which the youth group also added the group of taking pictures with mobile phones.
Bao Yongqing, where is this photo?
Let's take a look at this photo of "The Best of the Year".
Taken from the WPY website
It is understood that Bao Yongqing's award-winning photo, titled "The Moment" in English, was taken on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, showing a Tibetan fox hunting a Himalayan marmot. The Marmot obviously suddenly appeared in fright, turned its head and prepared to run, Bao Yongqing captured the marmot's surprised expression and this very picturesque scene.
But its Chinese name "life and death duel" is undoubtedly more appropriate. The marmot looked almost frightened, with five fingers open and its mouth wide open. The Tibetan fox next to it seems to pounce on it at any time.
Partial view of "Life and Death Showdown"
Jury chairman Roz Kidman Cox said in a press release that the Tibetan Plateau, often referred to as the "roof of the world" at an altitude of more than 4,500 meters, is rare to photograph photographs from the region, "but it is extraordinary to capture such a powerful interaction between a Tibetan fox and a marmot — the two main species of ecosystems in high-altitude grassland areas." ”
Sir Michael Dixon, curator of the Natural History Museum in London, told the media: "This fascinating photograph captures the moment of nature's ultimate challenge: the fight for survival. ”
According to the British "Daily Mail", Bao Yongqing had been observing the two creatures in the local area for a long time before taking this photo, he said that the marmot in the picture had actually discovered the existence of the Tibetan fox as early as 1 hour ago, and warned other companions, but the Tibetan fox had been lying still, so that it finally let down its guard and walked out of the cave to find food.
Bao Yongqing said that just as the marmot left the safe cave, the Tibetan fox suddenly turned over and rushed over, and the marmot also performed a lightning-like rapid reaction, and the next moment was recorded in the photo, becoming an eternal moment.
Bao Yongqing also won the first prize in the nature category of the 2016 National Geographic Photography Contest in China, and the work "Confrontation" also appeared in the surprising figure of marmot -
Image source: WeChat public account "National Geographic Chinese Network"
Bao Yongqing introduced at that time:
The Tibetan mastiff is known as the king of the dogs, and the Tibetan mastiff living on the grassland is still wild; by chance, when encountering the Tibetan mastiff preying on the Himalayan marmot, the Tibetan mastiff salivates, surrounds the marmot, waiting for the opportunity to find the opportunity to take the next bite, the mood is tangled when shooting, both worried about the safety of the small marmot, but also want to see the true results of this confrontation, fortunately, the clever marmot took the opportunity to burrow into the cave, escaped this killing disaster, a very memorable shooting experience.
List of other award-winning works
In the junior category, cruz Erdmann, a 14-year-old photographer from New Zealand, took underwater photos of iridescent bigfin reef squid on a night dive in Indonesia's Lembeh Strait, winning another top prize in the competition, the title of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Image source: WPY official website
Being able to clearly capture the glowing appearance of iridescent largefin reef squid at night underwater requires high photographic skills, Erdman said: "You must be very careful when diving, you must not mix the dust under the water, otherwise the photos you take will be full of impurities, I was still, and I did not kick the water, so the photos are very clear." ”
Bird photography
It took photographer RickArtson three years to take the photo, carefully placing a section of branches where eagles usually land, and the camera and flash as soon as the eagle flew down.
"Eagles are used to flash and aren't afraid of flashes, and I think they probably still enjoy being photographed," he said. "Sometimes there are pictures of crows landing, but that's not what the Norwegian photographer was looking for.
Photographer Portfolio Category
On the Ekstr?m Ice Shelf in east Antarctica, photographer Stefan Christmann photographed more than 5,000 emperor penguins huddled together to warm up, male penguins that hatched their chicks, and female penguins that went out to sea to hunt.
The wildlife of the city
Charlie photographed rats around the world for National Geographic, a group of rats that live near Wall Street in Manhattan, New York.
They lived under a metal chassis that surrounded a tree, and at night rats came out of the crevices to look for food in the garbage heap outside the nearby hotel, where Charlie installed a camera under the tree and used the remote control to activate the shutter a few meters away to take pictures.
Charlie said: "There were about 30 rats in this group under the iron grille disc, and they were all used to my presence during the three days of my shooting, and even one rat stood on my feet. ”
invertebrate
This group of ants in Costa Rica does not nest underground or in trees, they use their bodies to nest, clinging between several branches, and the branchless ants form a nest with many passages and rooms for protecting queens and raising young ants.
Photographer Kronal said: "Almost every day they rebuild their nests, the nests built by ants are scattered, they carry the larvae through the rainforest, and the next day they form a new nest 150 meters away, this ant nest is beautiful, I feel a bit like a crown or a church." ”
Black and white photography
Every year the contest is bound to have stunning black-and-white photographs. This photo of the bison was taken in Yellowstone National Park, where the bison rub their faces back and forth against the snow during heavy snow so they can eat grass buried underneath.
Photographer Max Waugh said: "I tried to slow down the shutter speed to take pictures, I think this may be the key to the success of this photo, the snow became blurred, I waited until the bison looked up to take a quick photo. ”
Animals in their natural environment
In Xinjiang's Argin Mountain National Nature Reserve, a group of Tibetan antelopes leave their footprints on the snow-covered Kumukuri Desert. Tibetan antelopes inhabit the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an altitude of 5,500 meters above sea level, where temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees. Photographer Fan Shangzhen said: "The herds of Tibetan antelopes like to go to the beach exposed from the snow because it is the warmest. ”