Moving sight
For a species that, like its pinniped cousins, seems so ungainly on land, the Mediterranean monk seal is astonishingly lithe beneath the waves – here, darting through the shallow azure of southern Greece. This is one of its few remaining strongholds where three Italian photographers have focused their efforts on telling the story of this beautiful but Endangered creature, one of the world’s most threatened marine mammals.
In the wars
This powerful predator might top the food chain in the Mediterranean, like the wolf on land, but life isn’t without challenges, not least from its own kind, as revealed by the scars on this female in Greece