Hardy Head Silver Side Fish School (atherinomorus lacunosus) In this aerial photograph, you escape from four black chip reef sharks near the coast of the Maldives.
Angela Albi and August Paula, behavioral biologists at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Constance, Germany, study how sharks interact with each other and with their prey, and the story of drone footage. I took a still image.
Black Tip Leaf Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) Social animals, these four-like boys often gather in a school of fish and draw circles. Albi is trying to determine whether the shark will coordinate the attack.
Snapshot won 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. Scientists around the world submitted images from five categories of studies.