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BIRDS of a feather flock collectively – and so do these western toad tadpoles, who had been snapped massing beneath lily pads in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, by photographer Shane Gross.

Gross, whose beautiful picture The Swarm of Life received him the Wildlife Photographer of the Yr 2024 award at the moment, spent hours snorkelling within the lake’s chilly waters to get his shot. He had nearly given up when he found that “the tadpole military was marching en masse from the deeper, safer finish of…