Incredible photo of mice battling on a London Tube platform takes top prize

Two mice fighting over a crumb on a Tube platform in London has taken the popular vote in this year's Wildlife Photography Awards.

The official winners were decided in December, but this incredible image taken by UK photographer Sam Rowley beat the finalists to claim the People's Choice Award.

According to the BBC, 28,000 people voted for Rowley's Station Squabble in the "best of the rest" category. The news outlet said Rowley, who works for the BBC's natural history film-making unit as a researcher, spent a few nights belly-down at a central London Tube station in order to get the shot.

Back in December, the 25 image-strong shortlist for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice Awards was released. The collection is striking, to say the least.

Here are a few examples below, and you can check out the whole bunch of finalists here.

A family of marmots in Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria. Credit: IMICHAEL SCHOBER

A long-eared jerboa, snapped during an expedition to the Gobi Desert. Credit: VALERIY MALEEV

A hunting Pallas' cat in the Mongolian grasslands. Credit: VALERIY MALEEV

A humpback calf, spotted off the Vava'u Island group in the Kingdom of Tonga. Credit: WAYNE OSBORN

A jaguar and her cub carrying an anaconda from the Três Irmãos River in the Pantanal, Brazil. Credit: MICHEL ZOGHZOGHI

A Caribbean flamingo feeding a chick in Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Credit: CLAUDIO CONTRERAS KOOB

An orangutan being forced to box in a show in Safari World, Bangkok. Credit: AARON GEKOSKI