Photo of the Day

"The rhythms of flood and drought regulate the pulse of life on the llanos [the vast grassland of Venezuela’s interior]. Coiled on a termite mound, an anaconda claims one of the few pieces of high ground left during the wet season, when an Orinoco tributary jumped its banks and flooded the grassland for miles."

—From "The Orinoco: Into the Heart of Venezuela," April 1998, National Geographic magazine