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ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

Britain’s foremost natural history museum has selected the Detroit Zoo as the site of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition’s U.S. debut for the 13th consecutive year. The show begins Nov. 17, 2018, at the Ford Education Center and runs through May 12, 2019. It is free with Zoo admission.

The exhibition of winning photographs from the 2018 competition features 100 images dramatically displayed as illuminated large-format color transparencies. The images were chosen from nearly 45,000 entries by photographers from 95 countries.

From a lioness drinking at a waterhole in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park, to the whiskered faces of a mother walrus and her youngster near an island in the Norwegian archipelago off Svalbard, to a male Bengal tiger fixing his gaze on the camera in a remote forest high in the Himalayas of central Bhutan, the 100 stunning images showcase wildlife from around the globe and raise awareness of the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world.

Now in its 54th year, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London.

The exhibition will be open during Wild Lights, the Detroit Zoo’s spectacular holiday display featuring more than five million LED lights. Presented by Strategic Staffing Solutions, Wild Lights will be held Nov. 17-18, 23-25 and 30 and Dec. 1-2, 7-9, 14-16, 20-23 and 26-31, 2018. Visit https://detroitzoo.org/events/wild-lights for information and tickets.