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[h=2]Canadian Lynx, Yukon Territory [/h] Photograph by Nicolas Dory, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Pictures A Canadian lynx is seen in the Ogilvie Mountains (Yukon Territory, Canada) last winter. I followed fresh wolf tracks, north of Tombstone, before I found this lynx enjoying the sunset. I spent three hours with the feline, watching him resting, stretching, and hunting snowshoe hares in the snow.
[h=2]Peacock Tree Frog [/h] Photograph by Mark Bridger, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Pictures A female peacock tree frog sitting in the rain at night
[h=2]Elephant Trio, Namibia [/h] Photograph by Susan McConnell, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Pictures Two adult elephants and a baby are at a waterhole in Etosha National Park in Namibia. The adults appear to be in heated conversation, but the conflict is resolved quickly and peacefully.
[h=2]Cheetah Cubs, South Africa[/h] Photograph by Dumith Fernando, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Pictures As three cheetah cubs at Phinda Game Reserve in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, played around their watchful mother, one by one they ran up the tree branch and lined up in a beautiful pose, as if to say, "We are ready for prime time!"
[h=2]Gaucho, Patagonia [/h] Photograph by Jasmine Rossi, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Pictures This picture was taken at Estancia El Condor, a ranch in southern Patagonia, near the border of Chile. A lonely gaucho surveys his land.
[h=2]Crab-Eating Macaque [/h] Photograph by Dave Forney, Your Shot This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Pictures As a humanitarian bush pilot flying in northeast Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo, I’m blessed along with my family to have many opportunities to see unique and exciting wildlife. Not far from our house is a small mangrove area that's home to these toothy crab-eating macaques.
[h=2]Oil Tanker, Persian Gulf [/h] Photograph by Thomas P. Peschak This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features A relic of the Iran-Iraq war, this oil tanker was scuttled near the Kuwait-Iraq border on Saddam Hussein’s orders, to block access by sea to southern Iraq. Kuwaiti authorities are reluctant to remove the vessel for fear of damaging the wetlands of nearby Bubiyan Island, an important fish nursery and seabird breeding ground.
[h=2]White Pocket, Arizona [/h] Photograph by Richard Barnes, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Miniature lakes reflect the sky in White Pocket, one of the geological spectacles on the Paria Plateau. Over the eons, groundwater has leached the color out of the Navajo sandstone here, and the weather has broken its surface into irregular polygons.
[h=2]Esil River, Kazakhstan [/h] Photograph by Gerd Ludwig, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features The French Riviera it isn't, but Astana makes the most of its brief summer, when young men gather at the Esil River to flex their muscles before appreciative members of the opposite sex. The cobblestone embankment on the far side is popular with fishermen.
[h=2]Horses, Mongolian Steppe [/h] Photograph by Mark Leong, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features An ocean of green, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with just under three million people in a landmass larger than Alaska. Mongolian culture—physical, mobile, self-reliant, and free—developed out here on the steppe. "When people move to Ulaanbaatar, they bring that mentality with them," says Baabar, a well-known publisher and historian.
[h=2]Shadow Creek, California [/h] Photograph by Peter Essick, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Melting snowpack sluices down Shadow Creek.
[h=2]Baby Elephant and Keepers [/h] Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat.
[h=2]Boulders, Yosemite National Park [/h] Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Boulders perch randomly at Olmsted Point in Yosemite National Park. A glacier sculpted the 92-million-year-old bedrock here and left the boulders, plucked from a nearby mountain, when it retreated. The rocks, along with grooves in the bedrock, show the path of the glacier.
[h=2]High Tide, Indonesia [/h] Photograph by John Stanmeyer, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features As night falls and the tide rises on the Indonesian island of Pulau Balai, off the west coast of Sumatra, more than an inch of water washes into the home of 20-year-old Busrani. In March 2005 a seafloor earthquake lowered the island by three feet. Busrani can't afford to raise his floor, which floods at every high tide.
[h=2]Hot Springs, East Africa [/h] Photograph by George Steinmetz, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Sulfur and algae turn hot springs into pools of living color. The water is condensation from hot gases rising from magma chambers. As the water evaporates, salts and minerals form a vivid crust.
[h=2]King James Statue, England [/h] Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features A life-size statue of King James dominates the most lavish room of this treasure-encrusted palace at Hatfield, north of London. Crowned and holding a sword and a scepter—symbols of his power—James is nevertheless flatteringly relaxed in his pose. Hatfield House was completed by Robert Cecil, the monarch's loyal secretary, in 1611 as the King James Bible came off the presses.
[h=2]Snake River, Wyoming[/h] Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features Snake River Headwaters
Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming
387.5 miles protected since 2009
[h=2]Water Resort, Dubai [/h] Photograph by Thomas P. Peschak, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features A huge water-themed resort rises on Dubai's coast.
[h=2]Black Hole of Calcutta, Australia[/h] Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features "It feels like being swallowed by the Earth," says photographer Carsten Peter of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Claustral Canyon. Experienced canyoneers avoid it after heavy rains
[h=2]Rhinoceros, South Africa[/h] Photograph by Brent Stirton, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features A rhinoceros stands on a hillside in KwaZulu-Natal Province.
