A woman poses for a photo in the tourist area surrounding Houhai Lake during Chinese National Day holidays in Beijing, China, October 2, 2020. China is celebrating its national day marking the 71st anniversary of the People's Republic of China and the Mid-autumn Festival for a week beginning on October 1st. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

People fight for the ball as they take part in a mud football match during a festival for celebrating harvest in a village in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China September 24, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)

Jo Swinson, Leader of the Liberal Democrats takes part in some boxing practice as she campaigns at a boxing gym for young people on November 13, 2019 in London, England. The United Kingdom will hold a general election on December 12. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Elderly people attend an aquatic exercise at a private pool in Bangkok, Thailand, April 28, 2016. Many Thai families look after elderly relatives at a cost that countrywide adds up to just under a third of household income. The number of families facing this issue will balloon as the population ages at a rate among the fastest in Southeast Asia. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

A Lion peers out of a window on Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, Republic of Ireland on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times)

A “mouse house” fire station and book store, designed by an anonymous group of Swedish artists known as ”AnonyMouse”, is installed next to a retail store in Newton, Massachusetts, USA, 23 June 2022. Known for mouse-themed miniatures in Sweden, France and the Isle of Man, the collective has started installing several of the miniatures in Boston and the surrounding areas. (Photo by C.J. Gunther/EPA/EFE)

A girl feeds the new-born kitten as the family, living in tent city, adopted two kittens, found under the rubble, after 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit in Hatay, Turkiye on March 15, 2023. (Photo by Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Bloodthirsty by Thomas P. Peschak, Germany/South Africa — winner, Behaviour: birds. When rations run short on Wolf Island, in the remote northern Galápagos, the sharp-beaked ground finches become vampires. Their sitting targets are Nazca boobies and other large birds. The finches rely on a scant diet of seeds and insects, which regularly dries up, so they drink blood to survive. ‘I’ve seen more than half a dozen finches drinking from a single Nazca booby,’ says Tom. Rather than leave their nests the boobies tolerate the vampires, and the blood loss doesn’t seem to cause permanent harm. (Photo by Thomas P. Peschak/2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year)