The winner of the Wildlife Photographer

The winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition was announced in London on Tuesday evening.

The photo was taken by South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever in the abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop in Namibia.

According to the competition press release, what makes the photo particularly impressive is that the brown hyena in the photo is the world's rarest species of hyena. It moves mostly at night and alone.

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