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Annie Katz USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "Life on the Line" A Snowy Owl, with riveted eyes and wings flared, about to make a catch |
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Michael Fell USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "Piece of Earth" An elephant bull kicks debris at the camera in indignation (Kitirua Conservancy, Kenya). |
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Roie Galitz Israel 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Almost Human" Bears show an amazing character and each one has its own personality. In this image of the wet standing bear, with its backlight and black & white processing, you can really see the 'human' side of the bear. I wish to make people aware and in love with the bears and the wildlife I photograph, and then we might be able to raise awareness for their survival. |
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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Belly of a giant" A close encounter with a 40 tonne humpback whale as she glides by.presenting her stomach. |
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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Chasing Light" The all-white horses of Camargue are most identifiable by their signature color and prominent features; they are believed to be descended from prehistoric horses around 17,000 years ago. |
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Pamela Pauline Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Connected" A family of elephants, Southern Africa December 2015 |
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Suk Eun Kim Korea (South) Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Competition of Chaos" White tail repair's prey fight in Hokkaido. Who is eating? Who lives? The labyrinth in chaos. |
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Bartlomiej Jurecki Poland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Fighting Horses" Wild horses fighting during the Rapa das Bestas festival in Sabucedo, Spain. |
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Jari Peltomaki Finland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Brown Bear" Brown Bear early in the morning in open frozen marsh surrounded by Ravens. |
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Wendi Schneider USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Flamingo" States of Grace: Fauna - pigment ink on vellum over white gold leaf - balancing the real and the imagined to illuminate the grace of nature's organic forms. |
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Tom Schandy Norway Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "City of King Penguin chicks" King Penguin chicks at South Georgia, last light of the day. |
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Beau Pilgrim Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Whale Trail" This male Humpback Whale spent over an hour playing in the water and interacting around me, putting |
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Debra Garside Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Cubby Hole" Cubby Hole (a safe place for kids to hide). Spring cubs in -50C temps. |
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Lynn Clayton New Zealand Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Rural Road" Sheep being moved on a gravel road in back country New Zealand |
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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "King Penguin Gathering" Thousands of king penguins gather on South Georgia Island |
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Joseph Anthony UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Fountain pens blotting paper and quill" Swallows nest with six hungry chicks in Hong Kong. Open mouths resemble fountain pens |
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Janice Tieken USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "HANDSOME - Cathartes Aura" HANDSOME is his name. He is one of the Cathartes Aura also known as the turkey vulture, a vital part of our eco-system, one of the many who serve in the role of Nature's housekeeper. |
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Ellen Reus Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Gotcha!" The dog, named Prada, loves his ball and want to play catch all day. |
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Seth Joel USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional ""Angry Cow"" Angry cow is a force to be reckoned with on the open range in Hillside, Arizona. |
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Marc Cramer Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "American Crow" Today it is still snowing in Quebec, I have an outdoor studio for shooting the birds in my garden, O |
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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "FurSealAndKIngPenguinFaceOff" Fur Seal Watches King Penguins South Georgia Islands |
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Pedro Jarque Spain Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "The Sect" A group of flying foxes hanging on a tree. |
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Thomas Kokta USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Elephant Seal (2)" |
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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "not human" female gorilla |
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Tomas Hulik Slovak Republic Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Winter Gang" Rare picture of Red Deers winter gang on floodplains of Morava River, Slovakia |
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David Skernick USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Froggy" This guy played hide and seek with me for 45 minutes. |
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Michael Fell USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Chomp" A powerful pod of hippopotamuses engage in the mating game on the Simuyu River, Tanzania. |
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Rolf Walther Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Baby Gorilla" |
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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Watchful eye" A female Humpback keeps a watchful eye over an adventurous new born calf. |
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Bernard Sim Singapore Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Let me out!" They look so sad but don't be fooled, they are very aggressive. This was taken at a mini zoo in Batam, Indonesia. The monkeys were very aggressive and will snatch anything that is close to them. |
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Susan Greeff South Africa Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Rhino Reflection" Rhino Reflection is not only the literal description of the image, but also the sad reality that rhino numbers are decreasing due to the murderous acts of killing them off for greedy poaching of their horns. Only the reflection in our photographs of this magnificent specie will remain if the poaching of rhino is not stopped. |
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Adam Plucinski Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fly" So common, so disliked, yet so magnificent from up close. |
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Alexandra Cearns Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Moon Bear" This Moon Bear was rescued from a bile farm in Vietnam and is now cared for by Free The Bears. |
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Andrew B Church USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Birds on a Wire" |
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Andrew JK TAN Singapore Nominee Wildlife Professional "Family" Family of elephants at waterhole , Botswana |
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Anette Mossbacher Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "White Is The New Black" Two Zebras having a tender moment together in Namibia |
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Annie Katz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Stealth" A female Snow Owl, eyes transfixed, flying straight on in and very low to the ground. |
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Anouk Baumann Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Breathtaking Moments" Parklandranch, Canada - memorable encounters with all kinds of horses, remaining in my memory for ever. |
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Anthony Nex USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Guadalupe Buffet Line" Great Whites off Guadalupe Island, Mexico |
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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elephants under the thunder skies" Maasai Mara, Kenya |
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Azin Haghighi Iran Nominee Wildlife Professional "patriots" A female stork and her mate who stay in the marivan-Iran all year round even during cold seasons |
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baris akyurt USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "zebra" Love in Black and White |
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Bev Pettit USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "White Horse #1" White Andalusian Stallion |
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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Eagle fight" |
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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Puffin" |
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Chris Dei USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Zen" Last light of day illuminates line of flamingo. Lake Nakuru, Kenya |
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Chris Dei USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Stay with Me" A few days old, baby closely guarded by mother. Kenya |
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Chris Dei USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Mighty Warthog" This little fellow scurried into a ground hole, then popped out as the light bathed his face. Kenya |
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Chris Dei USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "leopard with kill" Leopard clearly visable, having dragged his kill up a tree for safe keeping. Kenya |
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Chris Sattlberger USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ghostriders" shadows of wild mustangs galloping across arid plain |
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christopher mcleod UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Foggy Rise" Young fallow deer looking out into the rising sun in the fog. |
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Cid Costa Neto Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Manech tête noire" |
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Craig Moodie Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Victorian Dairy Farmers" Study of a Victorian dairy farm in South Gippsland Victoria depicting water capabilities in farming. |
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Craig Moodie Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Victorian Sheep Farmers 03" Study of a Victorian Sheep farm in Yea, Victoria. |
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David Skernick USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elk Herd" Elk in Grand Teton National Park |
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Deborah Roffel Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Happy Seal " a portrait of a seal at the seal hospital Pieterburen, Groningen |
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Debra Garside Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rockstar" This young wild stallion from Sable Island was trying to steal mares from another herd. |
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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee Wildlife Professional " Eremitagen, Denmark" A dearest deer on a beautifull day in Eremitagen, Denmark. |
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Dorte Grann Denmark Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ostriches_South Africa" One of the worlds funny animals_Captured in South Africa. |
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Federico Janni USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "audience" bunch of observers in hermosa beach, california |
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Gjertrud Hustad Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Upward" |
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Gorazd Golob Slovenia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Raven party" |
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Janice Tieken USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "CONDOR DOLLY GROOMING" Condor Dolly, now 6, the ambassadress for the Endangered California Condor efforts. Young and with a broken wing unable to fly, cannot return to the wild. Condors are nature's housekeepers, clean up d |
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Jennifer Idol USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Leatherback hatchling" This endangered leatherback hatchling heads to the water in St. Croix. |
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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rhinoceros" The Rhinoceros is hidden among the tombstone of his ancestors. |
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Joan Davis USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "March Of The Mares" |
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Lennette Newell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "White Capuchin" White Capuchin Portrait |
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Louis Montrose USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Penguins in the Snow" On the Antarctic Peninsula |
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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flamingo Flight" Elegant flamingo flight with slow shutter speed |
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Michael Finn Ireland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Finn_Michael_Lion3442A" Lion from my "Bucket List" photographic safari to the Maasai Mara following a heart attack |
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Michael Fell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Trumpeting Stop" Close enough to touch and an intimate view of a charging elephant before the dust has time to settle |
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Michael Fell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Defender" Elephant bull protects the herd in Kitirua, Kenya. |
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Michael Fell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Changing Land" Herd of elephants walk across the dry land in Kitirua, Kenya. |
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Michael Fell USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Venturing in the Rain" A lion shakes off in the rain in Maswa, Tanzania. |
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Michael Kloth USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ferruginous Hawk" Ferruginous Hawk Take Off |
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Mike Reyfman USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pescado" Lava island in the middle of Salar de Uyuni. Altiplano Bolivia. |
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Nila Onda USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Psyche" |
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Pamela Pauline Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Quelea Birds" The Quelea Bird Migration in Botswana |
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Patricia Jarvis USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Snowstorm Greeting" Fight or Flight? |
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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Thundering Hooves" |
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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Return to the Herd" |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Yum!" Cleaning off his face after having a snack |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Waiting" Patiently waiting |
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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Kudu in the treetop" Watching |
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Pedro Jarque Spain Nominee Wildlife Professional "In your hands" Potrait of a worried chimpanzee. |
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Peter Delaney South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "Chimpanzee Dreaming" Male Chimpanzee lies on forest floor with hands behind head. |
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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee Wildlife Professional "Oryx in a Namibian Dune" |
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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee Wildlife Professional "Waterbuck Portrait" Taken in Tanzania, Africa |
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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ape Hand and Foot Nr. 1" |
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Rolf Walther Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ape Hand And Foot Nr. 2" |
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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "False Killer" False Killer whales are found across various parts of the world but remain quite elusive. |
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Shelley Paulson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Myley" A white horse pauses for a moment against a white sky... |
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Shokoufeh Malekkiani Iran Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild Jackal" Faraway valley near south of khoarsen between the border of Iran and Afghanistan where a bunch of Jackals live. |
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Steffen Hofemann Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "mother" the horse was shot on a hot day in sicily, her role sleeping next to her. |
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Steven Begleiter USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Feeding Time" Feeding time for baby birds |
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Suk Eun Kim Korea (South) Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fisherman owl" Blackston's Fish Owl caught fish to eat half, bring to incubate eggs wife |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Elephant Seal (1)" Elephant Seal Relaxing in a Pool on South Georgia Islands |
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Thomas Kokta USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Baby Monkey Hand and Mom" Baby Snow Monkey Embraced by Mom, Only Hand Showing |
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Till Leeser Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Andalusian Horses" |
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tom nagy Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "chimpansee" |
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tom nagy Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "snake" |
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tom nagy Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "lion" |
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Umon Taga Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "crab" Image from the series of "biological design". |
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Victoria Hillman UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mating Ball" Common toad mating ball, Somerset, UK |
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William Moureaux France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flamants Roses" Fuji XT1 100-400 mm |
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Wolf Ademeit Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "little fighters" Two fighting Cheetah Cubs |
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Yingting Shih Taiwan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Got You" |
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