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Photo of the Day
May 18, 2009

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Photo: Herd of wildebeest

Wildebeest, Botswana

Photograph by Beverly Joubert

This Month in Photo of the Day: Images From National Geographic Books

On the Selinda Reserve in Botswana, a herd of wildebeest gathers at the water’s edge at the end of the dry season.


From the National Geographic book Visions of Paradise, 2008

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