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The Animal Behaviour category was won by Ian Mason with this picture titled Three Frogs in Amplexus.

All the logic and desire that guides a female frog to a specific pond vanishes once she arrives, and a melee ensues as males race to cling to her in a tight embrace called amplexus.

About midnight, the few remaining fix to leave, but stay to ogle when someone spots a wood frog amplexus — a pre-fertilization embrace.

To mate, frogs embrace in a position called amplexus: The male frog clings to the female until he can fertilize her eggs as she lays them.

Romeo is giving up his worm meals for Juliet and trying his best to perfect amplexus.