'Poignant' orangutan image wins top National Geographic prize

Name: 'Poignant' orangutan image wins top National Geographic prize
Uploaded: 2018-01-08T07:03:57.000Z
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Description: The unusual shot of a wading orangutan was named National Geographic's best nature photo of 2017.

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This image of an orangutan in Borneo beat 11,000 entrants to win the grand prize in National Geographic's Nature Photographer of the Year contest.

Singapore-based photographer Jayaprakash Bojan told the BBC's Newsday how he captured the shot and why it is so unusual.

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8 January 2018