The winners of this year's joint BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition have been revealed, with submissions from ecologists, zoologists, and palaeontologists across the world showcasing the very best in science images and stories capturing an incredible range of wildlife behavior, and researchers' attempts to understand it, through photography. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The overall winner this year was captured by Andrey Giljov, Senior Lecturer at Saint Petersburg State University, for his image entitled “Sparring Saigas on the Steppe,” featuring two male saiga antelope in a sparring match. In 2015, over 200,000 saigas were wiped out in a catastrophic die-off event, but now the population

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