Wildlife Photography

Coverage on the BBC reported that the winners of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award had been announced. BBC ONE West said the competition, organised by the Natural History Museum, received a record-breaking number of entries from around the world across 19 categories, including urban wildlife, underwater photography, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, and young photographers aged 10 and under. BBC NEWS reported the urban wildlife category was won by a photograph of a common water lizard against a city skyline, taken by Seth Foreston after he lowered himself onto the mud, and noted that the lizards live in cities across south and southeast Asia and eat whatever food is available, such as catfish and koi. The overall winning photograph showed an elephant carrying a dead calf in Namibia. BBC ONE West identified the photographer as the Italian photographer Federico Veronese and said he described it as the most heartbreaking, fascinating and dramatic photograph he had taken in 20 years of photographing animals. BBC NEWS named the photographer as Federico Veronesi and reported his reaction from Amboseli National Park in Kenya, where he said it was fitting to receive the news although he could not be in London in person. BBC NEWS said the image showed a female elephant carrying a deceased baby by wedging its leg between her trunk and tusk, a behaviour not frequently seen. It reported that researchers recognized the elephant as a female that had lost a calf several years earlier and had previously picked up dead calves from other females, while the photographer said he initially thought she was the mother but later understood she was a female that had had a miscarriage a couple of years earlier and had since been attracted to carrying dead babies. BBC NEWS said the photo was taken in Namibia in a dry river flowing into Skeleton Coast National Park in northwestern Namibia, among desert adapted elephants. One later BBC NEWS reference named the photographer as Luca Veronese. BBC ONE West also reported on other winning images. It said one photographer took a picture of a dung beetle in Victoria Falls, near their home, after noticing it while photographing elephants and watching it roll dung slowly past their foot with flies following closely behind. It said another photographer, on a wildlife documentary shoot in Bangkok, saw an event unfolding, threw himself into the mud, used a phone to take a series of photos, and captured a water monitor lizard that had taken a fish from a lake and attracted the attention of others. BBC ONE West concluded by congratulating Seth and Oscar on their photographs.

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The winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award were announced.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
The overall winning photograph shows an elephant in Namibia carrying a dead calf in a rarely seen behaviour, taken in a dry river flowing into Skeleton Coast National Park.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
Broadcasters gave conflicting names for the overall winning photographer, including Federico Veronese, Federico Veronesi, and Luca Veronese.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
The urban wildlife category was won by a photograph of a common water lizard against a city skyline, taken by Seth Foreston.	Reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year award is organised by the Natural History Museum.	Not reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
The award received a record number of entries from around the world.	Not reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
The competition has 19 categories, including urban wildlife, underwater photography, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, and young photographers aged 10 and under.	Not reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
The photographer described the image as the most heartbreaking, fascinating and dramatic photograph he had taken in 20 years of photographing animals.	Not reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
The photographer gave his reaction from Amboseli National Park in Kenya and said he could not be in London in person.	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One
The elephant was identified as a female that had lost a calf and had previously carried dead calves of other females, rather than the mother of the dead calf.	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One
Common water lizards live in cities across south and southeast Asia and eat whatever food is available, such as catfish and koi.	Reported by BBC News	Not reported by BBC One
A category-winning photograph showed a dung beetle in Victoria Falls rolling dung past the photographer's foot, with flies following.	Not reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One
BBC ONE West congratulated Seth and Oscar on their photographs.	Not reported by BBC News	Reported by BBC One

This is a cross-channel consensus summary, not an objective account. Consensus can be uniformly wrong, or omit what only one channel covered.