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A lone bull elephant feigns a charge the onlooker at a water hole, creating a big splash. Okavango Delta. Botswana.
Frans Lanting
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A chameleon reaching for a snack, Moka. Mauritius.
Ian Nichols
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Children swim near the bridge that opened the Virgin Ndoki area to exploitation, Ndoki. Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Michael Nichols
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Cheering for a pig race at the Kansas State Fair. USA.
Joel Sartore
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The Expo 1967 Geodesic Dome, now called the Biosphere, in Montreal. Canada.
Stacy Gold
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Sisters with rainbow coloured hairstyles and matching glitter in Saint Paul, Minnesota. USA.
Joel Sartore
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Iowa fairgoers bite in synchrony at the first-ever Corn Dog Chomp in Des Moines, Iowa. USA.
Joel Sartore
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Men sit under a waterfall as part of training to become a Yamabushi, Mt. Haguru, Yamagata Prefecture. Japan.
Michael S. Yaashita
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A baby monkey embrassing the carcass of its recently hunted parent. Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Michael Nichols
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Mirror arrays concentrate light making electricity in Alburquerque, New Mexico. USA.
Michael Melford
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Twighlight view of a 700-foot-long cable bridge, designed by a local priest, that spans the Zambezi River at Chinyingi. The bridge was built in response to a ferry accident in 1971 which drowned five people. Zamibia.
Chris Johns
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Bees cluster on two pallets of hives, stacked and strapped for moving by a migratory beekeeper, after the bees pollinated a crop in Maine. USA.
Maria Stenzel
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Water Throwing Festival, a purification rite during the Buddhist New Year. Myanmar.
James L. Stanfield
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An elderly ice skater at the Galleria Mall, Dallas, Texas. USA.
David Alan Harvey
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The modern interior addition of the history Reichstag Building, Berlin. Germany.
Scott S. Warren
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Men rebuild a house in traditional style using no nails or machines in Dimen, Guizhou Province. People's Republic of China.
Lynn Johnson
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The pigment of a blue button jellyfish blocks ultraviolet rays, Hawaii. USA.
David Liittschwager
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Its image mirrored in icy water, a polar bear swims submerged in Lancaster Sound, Northwest Territories. Canada.
Paul Nicklen
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Lighning bugs and wild alfalfa blanket the prairie in Strong City, Kansas. USA.
Jim Richardson
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On this day in 2001, a series of attacks were launched against the USA. This image was taken from above the site where the World Trade Centre stood in New York City. USA.
Lynn Johnson
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A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake of Kamchakta. Russia.
Randy Olson
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A boy pours a bucket of water over himself at the edge of a lake in Meiktila. Myanmar.
James L. Stanfield
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Women, window, & Wall.
Suraj Dongol/National Geographic My Shot
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A woman in a telephone booth made of ice in Fiarbanks Ice Museum, Alaska. USA.
Alison Wright
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A girl has her head shaved before entering the local monastery in Began. Myanmar.
Steve Winter
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Moviegoers enjoy a flick at an outside movie garden in Broome. Australia.
Randy Olson
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Costumed extras stand in a field of grain while waiting to go on set in Bombay. India.
William Albert Allard
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A porcelain crab in sea anemones in the Raja Ampat Islands. Indonesia.
David Doubilet
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A kilted man throws a pole at the Glenfinnan Highland Games in Scotland. UK.
Jim Richardson
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A leopard seal bares teeth in a display of threat to protect her kill in the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica.
Paul Nicklen