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Winner – 11 to 14 years old: A mean mouthful by Sam Sloss, Italy/USA. On a diving holiday in north Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sam stopped to watch the behaviour of a group of clownfishes around their home, a magnificent anemone. It was only when he downloaded the photos that he saw tiny eyes peeping out of its mouth. It was a “tongue-eating louse”, a parasitic isopod that swims in through the gills as a male, changes sеx, grows legs and attaches itself to the base of the tongue, sucking blood. When the tongue withers and drops off, the isopod takes its place. (Photo by Sam Sloss/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020)
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