Photo of the Day: Best of February 2010

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Barracuda, Bismarck Sea

Photograph by David Doubilet

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A school of barracuda surrounds a naturalist in the Bismarck Sea off New Hanover island, Papua New Guinea.

This photograph appeared in the April 1988 National Geographic story "Wreck of the Coolidge."

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Brown Vine Snake, Panama

Photograph by Andrew Carrano

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While on the island of Bocas Del Toro, Panama, a brown vine snake is threatened by a potential predator ... a camera's lens.

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Elephant, Kenya

Photograph by Michael Nichols

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A rainbow streams over a lone elephant as it walks in Samburu National Reserve, a little-known jewel of northern Kenya that teems with wildlife.

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Praying Mantis

Photograph by John Crippen

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Close-up of a praying mantis and an interesting background

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Orangutan, Borneo

Photograph by Sean Crane

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A young orangutan swings from tree to tree in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.

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Lion Brothers

Photograph by Neal Lillis, Your Shot

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The Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Headcorn, Kent, England, is home to three African lion brothers. The brothers were born at Woburn Safari Park before being moved to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation. The Wildlife Heritage Foundation is a U.K.-based charity for the protection and preservation of big cat species.

Here one of the lions grooms his brother after they had finished eating.

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Goat, North India

Photograph by Svetlana Eremina

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There is cold weather in North India in the winter and in the beginning of the spring. That's why people put old clothes (which they are not using anymore) on goats.

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Leopard Seal

Photograph by Paul Nicklen

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Sinuous for its size—up to 12 feet (3.7 meters) and more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms)—the leopard seal is a formidable predator, its mouth often stained with the blood of penguins and other seals.

See more photographs from the December 2009 feature story "South Georgia."

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Flamingo Reflection

Photograph by Andy Kenutis

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I took this shot of a silhouetted flamingo's reflection at the Minnesota Zoo.

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