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The annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition finds the very best wildlife images taken by the world’s top professional and amateur photographers.

Ten long months spent stalking the rare and elusive snow leopard in temperatures as low as -40ºC paid off for a dogged photographer.

An image of the Himalayan big cat, silhouetted against a black sky filled with snow, won the aptly-named Steve Winter the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.

The picture captures the majestic beauty of the endangered leopard and the bitingly cold and hostile high-altitude landscape it manages to survive in.

An estimated 3,500-7,000 snow leopards (Uncia uncia) survive in the high-altitude regions of the Himalayas and mountains of Central Asia. A fearsome predator, it has suffered a steep decline in numbers because of poaching for its highly-prized skin and body parts.

An exhibition of the winning images will be on view at the Natural History Museum from October 31 2008 – April 26 2009.

Last year the exhibition attracted almost 134,000 visitors and was later seen by more than 1m people at regional and international venues.

Troublemaker – Stefano Unterthiner, Italy. Winner, animal portraits

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Photographer Christian Holzknecht pulls the strings of the carwash girls for Christ. The Hot Car Wash Calendar is one of the most sought-after Calendar in the branch.

Christ customers, business associates and friends can look forward to rising temperaturs in the fourth version of the “Hot Car Wash 2009″.

This year’s Calendar motto is “Splish, Splash”. The perfect motto for photo shootings in sunny California. The photographer, Christian Holzknecht, lives and works in Los Angeles – just the right background for the Rock`n Roll style artwork created especially for Christ’s Hot Car Wash Calendar 2009.

His flashy style of portraying people has risen the eyebrows of media majors such as the German Playboy for whom he is currently working on a photo shooting. Not to mention the several lifestyle magazines: GQ, Maxim and Playboy, as well as, diverse TV formats such as Pro7, Sat1, RTL and VOX who are avid appreciators of his artwork.

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In “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” all the loveable characters are back – Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins.

Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane – sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all – the vast plains of Africa itself – where our zoo-raised crew encounters species of their own kind for the very first time. While discovering their roots, they quickly realize the differences between the concrete jungle and the heart of Africa. Despite long-lost relatives, romantic rivals and scheming hunters, Africa seems like a “crack-a-lackin” great place…

but is it better than their Central Park home? And, as you know, especially if you sat through the first “Madagascar” with your kids, Alex is voiced by Ben Stiller.

The film will hit theaters on November 7th.

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Zoo is an interesting place to visit, but sometime you just need a little bit more motivation to attract you there, something like [Croc eat dog]…

The Buenos Aires Zoo has come up with many brilliant and creative ad campaigns over the years to motivate people to visit the zoo and enjoy its population of amazing animals.

The first two ads are from “The kangaroos have arrived” campaign. The ads playfully announce the arrival of the kangaroos by showing other animals with black eyes that they supposedly received from the boxing-happy kangaroos.

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