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REUTERS/China Daily
A giant panda is seen on a tree at the new base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan province, October 30, 2012. The first batch of 18 pandas returned to Wolong base on Tuesday, after being sent to Bifengxia base following the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, according to a local media.
AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN
Kitoto, a two-year-old female giraffe arrives in a crate on a trailer at Taronga zoo in Sydney on November 8, 2012. Kitoto who arrived from Taronga Western Plains zoo will share an exhibit with a male and two female giraffes to help maintain the herd structure at Taronga zoo.
Jochen Luebke/AFP/Getty Images
A crow holds a dried flower of Turkish hazel (Corylus colurna) in Hanover, on November 7, 2012.
AFP PHOTO / KAY NIETFELD
A husky with a blue and a brown eye looks at the photographer prior to the start of the first sledge dog race of the season on November 3, 2012 in Grossbeeren, eastern Germany.
Sean Gallup/Getty Images
A baby sable antelope (in German: Rappenantilope) mistakes the nose of zookeeper Martin Damboldt for a source of milk during feeding at the Berlin Zoo on November 2, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. After the mother of the one-month old antelope stopped feeding it zookeepers intervened and now feed the antelope milk from a bottle.
Nikon recently announced the winners of the 2012 Small World Photomicrography Competition, with this year’s top honors going to Dr. Jennifer Peters and Dr. Michael Taylor of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Their photomicrograph, “The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo” is believed to be the first-ever image showing the formation of the blood-brain barrier in a live animal.
Here are a selection of some of The Daily Beast's favourites from this fascinating competion.
1st Place
Dr. Jennifer L. Peters and Dr. Michael R. Taylor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee USA
The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo
Confocal
20x
2nd Place
Walter Piorkowski
South Beloit, Illinois, USA
Live newborn lynx spiderlings
Reflected Light, Fiber Optics, Image Stacking
6x
9th Place
Geir Drange
Asker, Norway
Myrmica sp. (ant) carrying its larva
Reflected Light, Image Stacking
5x
20th Place
Dorit Hockman
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Embryos of the species Molossus rufus (black mastiff bat)
Brightfield
Honorable Mention
Geir Drange
Asker, Norway
Two ants of different genus meeting on a twig
Reflected Light, Image Stacking
2.5x
Honorable Mention
Dr. Terue Kihara
Senckenberg am Meer, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB)
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Pontostratiotes sp., female, dorsal view. A deep-sea copepod collected in the southeastern Atlantic at a depth of 5395m.
Confocal
Honorable Mention
Dr. Donna Beer Stolz
Department of Cell Biology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Moth antenna
Confocal Stack Reconstruction of Autofluorescence
100x
Image of Distinction
Harold Taylor
Kensworth, Dunstable, United Kingdom
House spider
Image Stacking
30x
Image of Distinction
Dr. David Maitland
www.davidmaitland.com Macro
Feltwell, United Kingdom
Male Culex pipiens (mosquito)
Reflected (Episcopic) Diffuse Illumination
10x
Image of Distinction
Ian Gardiner
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Holopedium gibberum (water flea), live specimen
Darkfield
50x
AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS HASE
A dog tries to catch a snowball in Munich, southern Germany on October 28, 2012. In eastern and southern parts of Germany has fallen around 10cm of snow. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS HASE
AFP Photo/INGO WAGNER
A seal takes a sun bath at the beach in Helgoland, northern Germany, on October 27, 2012.
AFP PHOTO / ARNO BURGI
A swan swims on the river Elbe in Dresden, eastern Germany, on October 29, 2012. After first snow fall of the season meteorologists forecast raising temperatures up to 9 degrees for eastern Germany in the coming week.
AP Photo/Michael Sohn
A Californian sea lion swims in his basin, at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
