A leopard seal got into a lagoon just before low tide. The seal was hiding, waiting to ambush young penguins as they got closer. When a penguin got close enough, the seal moved extremely fast and caught the penguin by its feet dragging it to the open water. I was following parall...
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A young and inexperienced tiger cub attempts to hunt a chital (spotted deer) in Ranthambore National Park, India; but the chital turned out to be too big for this young cub. I captured the moment when the tiger cub was struggling to get the prey down, as his siblings and mother w...
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The sperm whales pictured here had just emerged from milling around in a gigantic cluster, with many of the whales defecating to such an extent that the water was opaque with secretions. This scene was part of a large, multi-day aggregation comprising hundreds, perhaps thousands...
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I encountered this fox scavenging a Caribou's carcass on the coastal plains of Alaska's Arctic. I spent two hours slowly approaching it until I took this picture from six feet away, as she finished her meal. It was a surreal and unforgettable experience and a rare opportunity t...
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Unity is the strength, as with teamwork and collaboration with which wonderful things can be achieved. Here this frog wanted to eat the ants, but its own life is at risk in the face of their unity.
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I live in a rural farming area in south-central Ontario. Every winter, Snowy Owls fly south from the Arctic to spend the winter hunting meadow voles in the farm fields. On this particular day, as blizzard conditions persisted, this Snowy Owl remained hunkered down on the ground....
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Despite all efforts trying to protect animals from poachers, cases like this one are very common, where horns are stolen from rhinos.
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A small group of Emperor Penguins huddles near a crack in an ice floe, in a pristine area of the Southern Ocean adjacent to Antarctica, known as the Ross Sea.
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In this image from above, the Brown Bear is surrounded by salmon in Kurile Lake. The salmon are circling the bear and keeping their distance, just out of his reach.
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A snowy owl takes flight alarmed by the call of another female. This species gives particular care to protecting its own hunting territory.
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A killer whale emerges on the surface while hunting in an Arctic Norwegian fjord during the polar night.
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A hyaena is roaming in the water looking for food on a misty morning. The black and white image conveys a sense of quiet.
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Looking, as usual, for the nests of the most beautiful bird species in Trentino, I unexpectedly saw this hoopoe and I immediately grasped the opportunity to photograph it.
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I was taking an early ride out from the camp in Masai Mara National Park, searching for the Great Migration, when I saw a rhino from far away standing beside a tree. The backlight from the early sun was too strong, so I took a silhouette instead.
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A wild Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, in Northern Sumatra. This species is critically endangered according to the IUCN red list, due to habitat loss, as a consequence of palm oil exploitation and logging. Less than 3,500 orangutans still survive in the wild....
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