Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 winning images By Josh Davis First published 15 October 2019
Photographer Yongqing Bao's image wins the grand title with an extraordinary image of a Tibetan fox pouncing on a startled marmot in China's Qilian Mountains.
The Moment shows a rarely observed species displaying behaviour that few people have ever witnessed before. The image was awarded the grand title in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, which received over 48,000 entries from 100 countries.
The picture captures the instant a female Tibetan fox, hunting to keep her three cubs alive, engages in a fight for survival with a Himalayan marmot.
Roz Kidman Cox, the Chair of the judging panel, says 'Photographically, it is quite simply the perfect moment. The expressive intensity of the postures holds you transfixed, and the thread of energy between the raised paws seems to hold the protagonists in perfect balance.
'Images from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are rare enough, but to have captured such a powerful interaction between a Tibetan fox and a marmot - two species key to the ecology of this high-grassland region - is extraordinary.
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The Moment, by Yongqing Bao, took this year's grand title. https://ichef-bbci-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11A0A/production/_109220227_body_yongqing-bao.jpg
