09/10/2023

Murder in the night, MontPhoto Honorary Award 2023

Murder in the night, by the chinese photographer Xingchao Zhu, is the winner of the MontPhoto 2023 Honorary Award. The image shows a manul or Palla's cat, a feline which looks like other cats, but weighs between two and five kilos and measures up to about 65 centimetres. It is considered a cuddly but lethal animal, hence the title 'killer by night'.
In winter on the Mongolian plateau, the food of the Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul) is relatively scarce. Occasionally they hunt small birds. Before dawn, an Otocolobus manul hunted and killed a Mongolian lark in the dark of night.
Another of the outstanding awards is the Nature Portfolio Award, which has been awarded to the Norwegian Michal Siarek, for his work "Saving exotic animals from Ukraine". A selection of images showing how a number of exotic animals affected by the war in Ukraine have been saved.
You can find all the winners in the galleries of the 2023 edition on the website