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Elephant Seal Pups, South Georgia Island

Photo of the Day, March 10, 2009

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Fattened and then abandoned by mothers who leave to ...

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Bee-Eater Feeding Chicks, Hungary

Photo of the Day, March 8, 2009

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In Hungary, adults fly to and from the nest ...

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Mexican Gray Wolf

Photo of the Day, March 4, 2009

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Still on shaky ground, the Mexican gray wolf, an ...

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Ocelot, San Diego Zoo, California

Photo of the Day, March 1, 2009

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Wild ocelots are gone from all U.S. states ...

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Leopard in Tree, Kenya

Photo of the Day, February 28, 2009

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I took at least 50 shots and spent well over an ...

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Mahout Bathing an Elephant, India

Photo of the Day, February 25, 2009

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Watching a mahout lovingly bathe his elephant, I tried capturing the ...

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Yellow-Billed Hornbill, South Africa

Photo of the Day, February 23, 2009

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A yellow-billed hornbill rests its beak on the camera hood at ...

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Koi Feeding, Texas

Photo of the Day, February 17, 2009

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Blue sky reflects off the surface waves created by a koi ...

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Tree Frog, South America

Photo of the Day, February 12, 2009

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Unusual tree frog from South America
—Caption by Kenneth Deitcher

This ...

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Birds Fighting, Rondeau Provincial Park, Canada

Photo of the Day, February 9, 2009

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Taken at Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, this image shows a ...

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Zebra, Tanzania

Photo of the Day, February 7, 2009

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We were taking shots in the southwest of Serengeti, Tanzania. This ...

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Birds in Flight, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Photo of the Day, February 6, 2009

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This shot of a gathering of herring, lesser, and greater black-backed ...

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Seal, Adventure Aquarium

Photo of the Day, February 5, 2009

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A serene moment from the New Jersey Adventure Aquarium

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Pig and Piglet, Africa

Photo of the Day, February 3, 2009

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The piglet is one day old and crippled. The mother had ...

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Alligator, Florida Everglades

Photo of the Day, January 30, 2009

Despite 70-odd teeth and a notoriously nasty bite, a female alligator in Florida's Everglades National Park demonstrates a delicate ...

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Velvet Worms, Hamburg, Germany

Photo of the Day, January 28, 2009

These intertwined velvet worms, or onychophorans, are living fossils, holdovers of the Cambrian explosion of life-forms that occurred about 530 ...

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Panda Yawning, Kunming, China

Photo of the Day, January 24, 2009

A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) yawns in its enclosure at the Yuantong Zoo in Kunming, China. Wild pandas live only ...

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Bubble Eye Goldfish, United States

Photo of the Day, January 19, 2009

Oriental apparition, the extraordinary bubble eye wears marble-size, fluid-filled eye sacs like water wings. The breed is only one in ...

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Grazing Bison, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma

Photo of the Day, January 18, 2009

Stately American bison graze beneath gold-lined clouds in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. Established in 1905, the refuge ...

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Lion in Tree, Zambezi River, Zambia

Photo of the Day, January 15, 2009

A female lion claims her spot in a tree near the Zambezi River in Zambia. Female lions are the primary ...

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Mandrill, Central Africa

Photo of the Day, January 12, 2009

A mandrill, tethered on a rope in central Africa, reaches for the camera. These colorful primates are threatened. They are ...

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Tree Frog Tadpoles, Costa Rica

Photo of the Day, January 4, 2009

Within days of being deposited on a leaf overhanging a stream, tree frog eggs grow into recognizable tadpoles. Bulbous yolk ...

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