Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020

Mammals behaviour category: The rat game by Matthew Maran, UK A young fox holds tight to her trophy – a dead brown rat – as her brother attempts to take it off her. For the past four years, Matthew has been photographing the foxes that live on a north London allotment. On this August evening, as Matthew watched the youngsters play, one of them ran out of the bushes with a dead rat in its mouth. The other three began squabbling over it and a tug-of-war ensued.