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July 23, 2006

Cape Penguins, South Africa, 1996

Photograph by Steve McCurry

A colony of unperturbed jackass penguins live on protected beaches between the towns of Cape Peninsula. Named for their loud braying sounds, the birds go about their daily business of waddling down to the water and relaxing in the warm sun completely unaffected by the steady stream of human onlookers.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Fairest Cape," March/April 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)