Don’t mess with these mice.

The photographer who captured two mice duking it out over crumbs on a subway station platform in London has won the People’s Choice Award for the Natural History Museum in London’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Wildlife photographer and filmmaker Sam Rowley snapped the rare photo, called “Station Squabble,” that earned him top honors, while spending a week of nightly stakeouts across multiple train platforms. According to Rowley, the scrappy mice fought and scattered in just a split-second.

“Many have confessed to enjoy watching them scurry around the otherwise boring station platform,” Rowley said in a press release. “Not everyone is lucky enough to see wildlife in the more remote, [unspoiled] regions of the world. Therefore, we have to appreciate the commoner species, which is what my urban wildlife photography’s all about.”

Even if you can’t get outside, the venerated photographer thinks it’s important to appreciate urban wildlife.

“I feel everyone needs to stop and watch mice, pigeons or any other local wildlife,” said Rowley.

Other “highly commended” shots include Aaron Gekoski’s “Losing the Fight,” featuring an exploited orangutan forced to box for show; Martin Buzora’s “The Surrogate Mother,” which depicts the bond between a baby rhino and its human handler; and Francis De Andrés’ “Spot the Reindeer,” wherein eight snow-white reindeer are shown in near-perfect camouflage near the Norwegian arctic.

More than 48,000 images were submitted for the 2019 competition, but just 25 of those were shortlisted for a public vote. Those images, as well as Rowley’s mice melee, will be on display in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum through May 31.