Is swarm intelligence the key to our future? An award-winning photograph of toad larvae hints at the links between nature and technology
Tadpole party wins top wildlife prize
Synchronicity: Photographer Shane Gross's winning image 'The Swarm of Life' (above) was one of a record-breaking 59,228 entries to this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Glossary
Larval - Relating to a form of an insect or an animal such as a frog that has left its egg but is not yet completely developed.
Utopian - Impossibly perfect. The term comes from an ancient Greek phrase meaning "no-place" invented by Henry VIII's chancellor, Sir Thomas More, in 1516, as the name of an imaginary, ideal island.
Drones - Drones are aircraft flown with no humans on board. They are used for many different purposes.