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BBC Wildlife Camera-trap Photo of the Year 2011: Editor's choice
About the Camera-trap competition
From frolicking giraffes to curious trumpeters, here are the Editor's favourite images from the second BBC Wildlife camera-trap photo competition.
Camera-traps empower researchers to spy on some of our rarest or most secretive species, gaining extraordinary insights that would have been impossible even just a few years ago.
Judging the hundreds of entries this year was, once again, as difficult as it was enjoyable. The competition judges spent hours looking through them, giving particular weight to the contribution that each image makes to scientific knowledge.
This year's top prize winner was an image of a fearless black-backed jackal running rings round a male lion taken by Ken Stratford of the Ongava Research Centre in Namibia. To see our other award-winning images click here.
Celebrating and rewarding conservation initiatives is at the heart of this competition’s ethos; the prizes – courtesy of the World Land Trust and Páramo Directional Clothing Systems – go to the winning projects, not the individual photographers.
And to see why the daring jackal attacked the big lion - and what happened next - click here.