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Mason Bee at work photography by Solvin Zankl Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Wildlife Photographer of the Year - A Closer Look

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
18 February 2025
The Big Standoff: Olivier Gonnet's Image captures the moment a lion defends its cubs from a buffalo. Olivier rapidly adjusted his camera for the low light to frame the unfolding action. Catching the intensity of the standoff as the angry lash of the buffalo’s tail is met by a fierce baring of teeth by the lion. While a pride of lions can bring down a buffalo, a lone lion with cubs is vulnerable. Buffaloes, though herbivores, can be very aggressive, and their heavy, ridged horns make formidable weapons, capable of goring and killing an adult lion and certainly its cubs.
The Big Standoff by Olivier Gonnet

Wildlife Photographer of the Year – A Closer Look

Tuesday 18 February

EXHIBITION GALLERY, BRIGHTON MUSEUM

11.30am Free with Brighton Museum admission, members free

Join our Curator of Natural Sciences for a closer look at some of the animals featured in the photographs plus related objects.

Image credit:

Mason Bee at work photography by Solvin Zankl

The Big Standoff by Olivier Gonnet

 

The Big Standoff: Olivier Gonnet's Image captures the moment a lion defends its cubs from a buffalo. Olivier rapidly adjusted his camera for the low light to frame the unfolding action. Catching the intensity of the standoff as the angry lash of the buffalo’s tail is met by a fierce baring of teeth by the lion. While a pride of lions can bring down a buffalo, a lone lion with cubs is vulnerable. Buffaloes, though herbivores, can be very aggressive, and their heavy, ridged horns make formidable weapons, capable of goring and killing an adult lion and certainly its cubs.
The Big Standoff by Olivier Gonnet
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