Photograph by Dave Forney, Your Shot
As a humanitarian bush pilot flying in northeast Kalimantan, Indonesia , on the island of Borneo, I m blessed along with my family to have many opportunities to see unique and exciting wildlife. Not far from our house is a small mangrove area that's home to these toothy crab-eating macaques.
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Photograph by Jasmine Rossi, Your Shot
This picture was taken at Estancia El Condor, a ranch in southern Patagonia, near the border of Chile. A lonely gaucho surveys his land.
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Photograph by Dumith Fernando, Your Shot
As three cheetah cubs at Phinda Game Reserve in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa , played around their watchful mother, one by one they ran up the tree branch and lined up in a beautiful pose, as if to say, "We are ready for prime time!"
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Photograph by Susan McConnell, Your Shot
Two adult elephants and a baby are at a waterhole in Etosha National Park in Namibia . The adults appear to be in heated conversation, but the conflict is resolved quickly and peacefully.
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Photograph by Mark Bridger, Your Shot
A female peacock tree frog sitting in the rain at night
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Photograph by Nicolas Dory, Your Shot
A Canadian lynx is seen in the Ogilvie Mountains (Yukon Territory, Canada ) last winter. I followed fresh wolf tracks, north of Tombstone, before I found this lynx enjoying the sunset. I spent three hours with the feline, watching him resting, stretching, and hunting snowshoe hares in the snow.
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Photograph by Mariajoseph Johnbasco, Your Shot
I shot this calf on the road in 2011 on the eve of Diwali at Neyveli, which is my hometown. Due to crackers going off everywhere, the cows couldn t rest near homes so they sought the middle of the road for rest. The fog, noise, and the backlighting of the streetlight made me take this picture.
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Photograph by Sree V. Remella, Your Shot
I shot this in Hyderabad, India . I was lucky the chameleon didn t turn blue.
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Photograph by Michael Nichols , National Geographic
A pride of lions behaves naturally for the camera a remote-controlled car outfitted with still and video cameras to capture the lions at ground level. The equipment was field tested by photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols while on assignment for National Geographic magazine.
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An adult emperor penguin in Antarctica takes care of the young ones while the other parents are fishing.
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Photograph by Diego Arroyo, Your Shot
Giraffes are pictured at dawn in Kenya s Samburu National Reserve.
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Photograph by Denis Rozan, Your Shot
A young Hmong girl rides a water buffalo in Sa Pa, Vietnam .
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Photograph by Raymond Tzul, Your Shot
This is a picture of our newly born baby ducks. They are about a week old. The mother duck was killed by our neighbor's dog, and my mom did not know what to do. She was advised to set up a homemade incubator, and the baby ducks were born a couple of weeks later. This particular picture shows one of the baby ducks snuggling next to another one while keeping an eye on the camera as we took the photo.
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Photograph by Craig Arnold , My Shot
A three-week-old zebra plays with an older zebra .
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Photograph by Jon Reaves, Your Shot
Puffins interact on Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine. The island is a sanctuary for puffins and other endangered birds that breed on its rocky coast each summer. Puffins mate in the same pairs for life, yet disperse for the winter.
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Photograph by Joel Sartore , National Geographic
Alert to human visitors, a young mountain gorilla and its mother sit tight in Bwindi Impenetrable Park. When the park opened in 1991, villagers resented losing access to forest where they had gathered honey and wood. Today the park shares the fees from gorilla-watching tours with the locals, a small victory in the Albertine Rift's unending clashes for livable space.
Photograph by Jack Fusco , My Shot
This photo was taken in Island Beach State Park, New Jersey.
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Photograph by Avinash Upadhyay , My Shot
We saw a lot of cattle egrets in a dried paddy field in the afternoon. The light was profuse, and even as I concentrated on the nearest bird, it began to lift off. Although the image is bathed in light, I love it because that is what India is all about—a profusion of light.
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Photograph by Brent Stirton , National Geographic
A caravanner of mixed Tuareg and Arab descent leads his camels in Mali . His Tuareg uncles taught him which plants can cure or kill his animals and how to navigate by the color, texture, and taste of sand.
Photograph by Ray Yeager , My Shot
Photographed during a snowstorm in New Jersey
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Photograph by Karim Jaffrey, Your Shot
This photo was taken on the Anhinga Trail, Everglades National Park, in July 2010. The anhinga bird had just surfaced from the stream, having skewered the fish. Taken with a Nikon D50.
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Photograph by Mary Beth Young, Your Shot
A cute crabeater seal peeked out at us from behind a piece of snow but wasn't bothered by our presence. I think he was just as curious as we were. He didn't move except to look at us and stretch. Sun was shimmering on his fur and the ice and snow he was laying on. It was the trip of a lifetime with the family, December 2011. Took this while Zodiac cruising in Cierva Cove, Antarctica, with Lindblad Expeditions on the National Geographic Explorer.
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Photograph by Michael Nichols , National Geographic
Elephants roam the Serengeti under a stormy sky in this photo by Michael Nick Nichols, who sent dispatches from the field as he shot a story for National Geographic magazine.
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Photograph by Steve Winter , National Geographic
Meet Smasher the male in the background. That's the name Steve Winter gave this youngster, cooling off in a watering hole in Bandhavgarh National Park, after he slapped the automated camera trap until it stopped clicking. Both tigers are thought to have killed people, and Smasher is now in captivity.
Photograph by Carsten Peter , National Geographic
A foot-long crayfish dodges a hiker fording a stream in Australia 's Claustral Canyon. The color of these crayfish, called yabbies by canyoneers, remains a puzzle. In some streams they're orange. In others they're blue. The difference is due partly to water purity the blue ones are found in the clearest water.
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Photograph by Morkel Erasmus, Your Shot
The golden light at dusk and dawn in the Kalahari is amazing and can enhance the mood of a scene greatly. On this particular morning in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, the rising sun was filtered by an ancient forest of camel thorn acacia trees, with a herd of springbok gazelles in attendance to complete the scene.
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Photograph by Mukul Soman, Your Shot
A gray wolf rests at Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in Washington State.
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Photograph by Michael Aw
"Suddenly he just jumped in!" says photographer Michael Aw. Sarmin Tangadji, the Papua police officer who escorted the photographic team to where the sharks congregate, "was so excited to see them up close." Aw shares that excitement when it comes to diving with a dozen whale sharks: "You are sandwiched in, sharks ahead and behind, but you want to be there," he says. "They make eye contact with you and then charge by. It blows your mind."
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Photograph by James Galletto , My Shot
This snowy owl was captured during a snowstorm. Unlike most owls, which are nocturnal, snowy owls are diurnal they hunt and are active both day and night.
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