Images from the Wildlife Photographer of The Year competition

These fascinating pictures are Highly Commended image in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) competition.

The overall winners will be announced by London's Natural History Museum (NHM) next month.

The category and Grand Prize winners will be celebrated at a NHM ceremony on Tuesday 15 October. The museum will then open its annual exhibition of the best photos on the following Friday.

It's just bizarre... and utterly beautiful at the same time. Those aren't some strange arrangement of antennae on a beetle but the fruiting bodies of a "zombie fungus" that has taken control of the insect. Its conquest complete, the fungus is about to spread its spores to the wind to find new victims to consume. Photo: Frank Deschandol. France

African wild dogs are known to be very effective hunters. Not on this occasion, however. This lone cheetah just managed to escape with its life. The photo was taken in a South African game reserve. Category - Behaviour: Mammals. Photo: Peter Haygarth, UK

A shoal of bigeye fish in the Red Sea. Their circling behaviour is a dating exercise prior to pairing up, though it also deters predators. Category - Black and White. Photo: Alex Mustard, UK

A raccoon pokes her face out of a 1970s Ford Pinto on a deserted farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was using the car as a safe place to bring up her young. The hole was too small for predatory coyotes to pass through. Category - Urban Wildlife. Photo: Jason Bantle, Canada

A curious young grey whale approaches a pair of hands reaching down from a tourist boat in San Ignacio Lagoon, Mexico. Mothers and young in the lagoon will actively seek contact with people for a head scratch or back rub. Category - Wildlife Photojournalism. Photo: Thomas Peschak, Germany/S. Africa

This intricate structure is the cocoon cage of a Cyna moth pupa. The caterpillar weaves the den to give it some protection from predators during its grand metamorphosis into an adult moth. Category - Behaviour: Invertebrates. Photo: Minghui Yuan, China

Littering the oceans has consequences. This Kemp's ridley sea turtle was strangled by discarded fishing gear attached to a washed-up beach chair. The photo was taken in Alabama. Category - Wildlife Photojournalism. Photo: Thomas Ware, USA

A newborn hippo is attacked by a bull in the shallows of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. This behaviour is rare but may happen if there is competition for space or a male wants to impose his dominance. Category - Behaviour: Mammals. Photo: Adrian Hirschi, Switzerland

These fascinating pictures are Highly Commended image in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) competition.

The overall winners will be announced by London's Natural History Museum (NHM) next month.

The category and Grand Prize winners will be celebrated at a NHM ceremony on Tuesday 15 October. The museum will then open its annual exhibition of the best photos on the following Friday.

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