Two adult male lions embrace each other with a forehead contact in the stunning photograph called ‘Bond of Brothers.’ The duo, most likely brothers, met each other and massaged their noses for 30 seconds before settling down, according to New Zealand photographer David Lloyd.

The photograph was taken in Ndutu, Tanzania’s Serengeti, and it was awarded the LUMIX People’s Choice Award at the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

‘I’m really glad that this image did well since it displays the emotion and feeling of animals and highlights that this is not confined to people,’ Lloyd says about the image.

‘I believe that more people should be aware of it for the sake of all animals.’

Here are more photographs from the same competition that stand out:

Bence Mate of Hungary took the photograph ‘One Toy, Three Canines,’ which depicts three exceptionally charming African wild dogs.

The three brothers wanted to play with an impala leg at the same time, so they dragged it in three different ways.

The image depicts a starving polar bear at an abandoned hunter’s camp in the Canadian Arctic, where the bear is struggling to locate food due to a lack of ice.

The photograph, titled ‘Three Kings,’ was taken by Wim Van Den Heever of South Africa and depicts a trio of Emporer penguins pointing to the sunrise.

In an interesting mating behavior, the two males moved around the female while using their flippers to push each other off.

The photograph, titled ‘Fox Meets Fox,’ was taken by Matthew Maran in the United Kingdom and depicts a wild fox coming across a fox painting on the street.

Since discovering the graffiti art a few years ago, he’s always wanted to capture this photo. His perseverance has paid off after numerous hours and futile tries.