Photograph by Gary Brown, Your Shot
This little miracle was saved from its dead mother. Taken at The Australian Reptile Park in Australia NSW. The amazing staff hand raised this little fella and against all the odds he is surviving and is just immensely cute!!!
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Photograph by Jose Cardona
At a Maui aquarium a Hawaiian green turtle makes a guest appearance. Members of this threatened species are unique among sea turtles for their herbivorous diet, thought to imbue their fat with a greenish hue.
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Enjoying the attention, the cheetah Juba stretches out in the grass at Wetevreden Leeuplaas (Lion Farm). She needed some peace and quiet because her leg was broken.
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Photograph by Jay Koppelman, Your Shot
I grabbed this shot of a blue heeler dog in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico . Sometimes it seems that there are two completely separate worlds that are in existence: that of the humans and the other, which belongs to the animals. In this photo the humans are definitely unaware of all the interaction that goes on in the animal world just feet away. I wonder what's going through this dog's mind.
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Photograph by John Seamons, My Shot
I found this stag beetle (Cyclommatus elaphus) as the sun was setting over Gunung Leuser National Park in Sumatra. I captured it almost in silhouette, to accentuate its incredible horns.
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Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic
In a forest dominated by second-growth trees, a young bear settles into a mossy day bed at the foot of a giant, old-growth western red cedar. Bears use such day beds to rest and sleep after a meal.
Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner, National Geographic
India s leaping langurs can be holy, helpful, or even pesky.
Photograph by Aleksnadra Turkowska , My Shot
Photo taken during dolphin therapy, Turkey
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Photograph by Emilien Anglada, Your Shot
These are wild eastern gray kangaroos shot on the west coast of Australia . I was going for a walk in the bush and unfortunately scared them off. They fled away in a hurry toward the native forest. These are part of Roxie's crew, a kangaroo that was once like a domestic pet at Dellis's bush stay in Soulhaven.
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Photograph by Charlene Ngo, Your Shot
I took this picture of a parrot in the Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden. I hope that I can raise awareness that these wonderful animals need a better habitat than the present one.
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Photograph by Angie Sin, Your Shot
Deer in Nara, Japan , are revered as holy messengers of God and are allowed to roam freely. They are well known for their bowing gestures for food.
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Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic
A water hole in NamibRand Nature Reserve teems with birds such as these sandgrouse.
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Photograph by Erica Scobie , My Shot
This was taken in June in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania . There were these brilliant yellow flowers everywhere, and we were lucky enough to stumble upon this group of zebras grazing in the long grasses.
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Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic
The clownish grin of a bridled parrotfish reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock. Though sometimes destructive to individual corals, the fish's efforts are mostly beneficial. Without them, algal growth could smother the reef. Scarus frenatus
Photography by Khaled Hasan, Your Shot
In the sea beach of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh , there are more than 100 horse riders working daily. They earn less than $5 a day. At the end of the day they have nothing to live on. They only live their lives in the beach area.
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Photograph by Lorenzo Menendez, Your Shot
A small gecko pokes his head out from between the ridges of a palm leaf. How I ever saw him I will never know.
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Photograph by Oscar Medina , My Shot
This is Lupe, a beautiful giraffe at the Wameru Zoo in Queretaro, Mexico.
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Photograph by Danielle Mussman, My Shot
Our third day in Amboseli National Park in Kenya and serendipity occurred as the clouds parted, revealing the snows of Kilimanjaro, a blue sky and a herd of elephants in front of it all.
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Photograph by Florian Schulz
Ashore on Svalbard, a male polar bear investigates a whale's backbone. Fat reserves from hunting ringed and bearded seals, and sometimes walruses, must carry bears through lean summers.
Photograph by Mark W. Moffett, National Geographic
A cactus bee (Diadasia sp.) pollinates a barrel cactus in Tucson, Arizona.
Photograph by Anthony Davis, Your Shot
A caiman rescued by the ARCAS organization in Guatemala gets the eye from a ring of turtles. Founded in 1989, ARCAS strives to rehabilitate animals seized from poachers and illegal pet traders, eventually releasing most back into the wild. As one of hundreds of travelers fortunate enough to volunteer at ARCAS each year, I spent long, hot, but enjoyable days cleaning and feeding parrots , scarlet macaws, spider monkeys , howler monkeys , and other species under pressure in Central America.
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Photograph by Diane Jones
Walking the line
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Photograph by Paul Wilkinson, Your Shot
Smaller fish keep their distance when a blacktip reef shark swims amongst them in shallow water in the Maldives.
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Photograph by Mrs. Wai Chun Turnbull, Your Shot
Taken in June this year during a game drive at Nakuru National Park in Kenya . Rounding a bend on the track I came upon not one but seven of these magnificent young lions draped across the branches of an acacia tree. Some are dozing and some are looking disdainfully at me. I was transfixed by these superb, regal creatures. What a privilege for me to have witnessed this amazing moment.
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Photograph by Peter Mortifee
On a recent safari in the Serengeti of Tanzania , I captured this image of an infant wildebeest keeping up with its mother. These remarkable animals can run at the same speed of the adults within 45 minutes of their birth. Finding ourselves in the middle of thousands of these animals migrating across the vast Serengeti was one of the most moving experiences of my life.
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Photograph by Richard Conde, Your Shot
This photo was taken at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York City. The female baboon seated in the corner had a ten-year relationship with the male baboon, named Simon seated, with the child. Simon left the female seated in this photo for two new female baboons and recently had two children by them. One of the children is seated with Simon. The look in the eyes of the rejected female baboon tells the whole story.
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Photograph by Erika Phillips
In the Galápagos Islands , I tried capturing the brilliant colors of the creatures that scrambled over the rocks. They were so fast and so eager to get away from all of us crazy tourists with their long shiny lenses that I figured it was a lost cause. This Sally Lightfoot crab decided that I meant no harm and just politely danced for me in the sunlight less than a foot away. She gave me several gifts that day besides the dazzling hues ... she gave me a chance to enjoy light, beauty and a magical brief connection.
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Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic
A herd of springbok bounds across Sperrgebiet National Park, 5.4 million newly protected acres on Namibia's southwest coast. Superbly adapted for the harsh desert environment, springbok have increased their number to some 160,000 since the 1980s one of several species recovering from historic lows.
Photograph by Kathy Parker, Your Shot
Australian blue-tongued lizards are widespread over our great country. This particular species is a "common" or "Eastern" blue-tongued lizard, found in the eastern parts of Australia . Living on a farm in the South East of South Australia, we find many of these lizards lazily crawling around our yard, especially during the warmer months. This lizard was courtesy of our hunter-gatherer cat, which is brave enough to bring all sorts of amazing creatures to our back door for inspection and approval!
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Photograph by Trish Carney, Your Shot
Yellowstone ! Had the pleasure of observing this grizzly sow and her cub this May. The snow was deep and the cub was riding on the sow's back as she was rooting through the snow for food. The sow had just caught a rodent and lifted her head to reveal her catch.
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Photograph by Marian Ubrankovic
This photograph was taken near Pitt's Head in Snowdonia National Park . The sun was setting and the backlighting created this dramatic picture.
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