Photo of the day

Raccoon dogs are foraging along the riverbanks at night for just about any small animal it can find from crayfish to voles. This image is from Little Killers.

Gloucester, Mass.: Deckhand Drake Roy (left) and Captain Tyler McLaughlin (right) of the Pinwheel. This image is from Wicked Tuna.

Jardines de la Reina, Cuba: Medium shot of Caribbean Reef Shark in deep blue water over the reef with the Sun and the sea surface above. This image is from Cuba's Secret Reef.

Re-enactment: Bergoglio as pope. (Actor: Kepa Amuchastegui). This image is from Rebel Pope.

Southeast Asian Myanmar little monk reading book outside monastery, Buddhist teaching. This image is from The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.

Vancouver: The bald eagle is the only eagle unique to North America. It has a wingspan of over 2 meters and can weigh up to 5 kilograms. Their specialty is fishing, with fish making up around 90 percent of their diet. This image is from Wild Islands: Vancouver.

New York, N.Y.: Riya DiCapo gets a tattoo in honour of her father at Sacred Tattoo Parlour. This image is from Faces of Death.

Madagascar: An indri, the largest of the living lemurs can climb trees with ease, using their powerful legs to jump through the canopy in leaps of over 10 metres. Indris are the only lemurs, which through evolution have lost virtually all of their tail – however, the association with their ape cousins ends here. This image is from Madagascar: Legends of Lemur Island.

This image is from Living Free with Kimi Werner.

Fla.: The Osprey is also known as the “fish hawk” since ninety percent of its diet consists of fish. With special talons made for grabbing and clutching slippery fish and quick drying feathers that shed water, the Osprey is designed for catching fish. This image is from Animals Gone Wild.

Fla.: Zeb swims with a Goliath Grouper. The Goliath Grouper is listed as a Critically Endangered species. This image is from Monster Fish.

Hunters, Wash.: Dally, the dog, loves to hitch a ride on his best friend Spanky, a miniature horse! This image is from Unlikely Animal Friends.

A male Rhesus Macaque walking along a stone wall. In Wintertime food is harder to come by out in nature, so the macaque is drawn to cities, where it can find an abundance of resources accumulated by humans—food and water, and even the shelter of abandoned buildings. This image is from Animals Gone Wild.

Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain and Kirst Novoselic of Nirvana. This image is from Generation X.

Clearwater Mountains, Idaho: Bear Claw petting Idahe's head as he speaks to him. This image is from Outsiders: Living Off the Edge.

Young Indian woman praying. This image is from The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.

Bimini, Bahamas: Great hammerhead swimming towards camera. The hammerheads elongated hammer contains sensory organs that pick up on movements around them, alerting them to the presence of prey. This image is from Hunting the Hammerhead.

Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Dr. Susan Kelleher's sulcata tortoise, Durda, eating outside of burrow. This image is from Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER.

Gloucester, Mass.: Mascots Ripple (LEFT) and Reba (RIGHT) aboard the Hot Tuna. This image is from Wicked Tuna.

Re-enactment: Adult Bergoglio becoming a priest. (Actors from left to right: Juan David Agudelo and Alexis Gavinovich). This image is from Rebel Pope.

A woman celebrating during the Holi Festival in India. This image is from The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.

London: This fire breather is atomizing the paraffin, dispersing it into smaller droplets, increasing its surface area and allowing it to vaporize and mix more easily with oxygen and so burn. This image is from Science of Stupid.

Portrait of President Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) with First Lady Nancy Reagan, taken in the White House, 1984. This image is from Generation X.

Morgan Freeman from "The Story of God with Morgan Freeman" airing on the National Geographic Channel.
This image is from The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.

Winston, Ore.: Pancake, a cheetah, rests in the shade with her best friend Dayo, a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Unable to nurse at birth, Pancake was hand-raised by Carnivore Supervisor Sarah Roy at Wildlife Safari in Oregon. But Pancake still needed a four-legged companion to learn social behaviour from. Wildlife Safari selected Dayo who was born on the same day as the cheetah. Now these two are inseparable. The unlikely couple plays, nuzzles and even sleeps next to each other. This image is from Unlikely Animal Friends.

British Columbia: Kimi learns how to camouflage into her environment. This image is from Living Free with Kimi Werner.

Portrait of a Sadhu in India. This image is from The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.

Deerfield Beach, FL, USA: Dr. Susan Kelleher's blue and gold Macaw, Xander, being serenaded while Dr. Susan Kelleher plays her ukulele. This image is from Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER.

The Silverback gorilla gets its name from a silver patch of fur that grows on the backs of adult male gorillas. The average silverback weighs upwards of three hundred and fifty pounds and can reach speeds of up to twenty-five miles per hour. This image is from Animals Gone Wild.

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman filming in Guatemala.
This image is from The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.