/ 2024 / Nature / Wildlife

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Eric D'Dio, United States
• Date of Photograph
  8/23

With highly specialized precision this colossal spent the better part of the morning affixing, first, to his back then the rest of his enormous frame an inordinate amount of clay and mud until he had decorated himself in totality. Camouflaged in his new clay concealment he spent the next hour or so just baking in the blistering hot African sun.