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Photographers Cry Wolf Over Prize

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"Hired" animal rankles photo world.

Jose Luis Rodriguez's stunning photograph of a wolf jumping a fence pinged across the Internet this year and won first place in the Wildlife Photograph of the Year competition, earning Rodriguez a $16,000 prize. Now, with suspicions raised in the nature photo world that Rodriguez used a model to achieve the haunting shot, he has been stripped of his award. Rodriguez denies any alleged shenanigans.

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