The 232 animals in this photo were killed by house cats in just one year

| June 16, 2021 | Leave a Comment

Cat and bird

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Date of Publication: September 22

Year of Publication: 2020

Publication City: Washington, DC

Publisher: National Geographic Society

Author(s): Cordilia James

From wineries to wildlife, Jak Wonderly is no stranger to making photos come alive using light, layout, and composition. But to capture something beautiful in dead animals? It was a new challenge.

Wonderly’s photo, “Caught by Cats,” recently won first place in the 2020 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition’s Human/Nature category. His image highlights a grim picture: The photo would need to be multiplied 10 million times to come close to showing the billions of animals killed by cats each year.

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