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Best nature pictures of 2012
Best nature pictures of 2012
A penguin swam off Arpoador beach in Rio de
Janeiro. Penguins arrive from the Antarctic Circle on ice floes that melt in the vicinity of Brazil's shore, and the birds wash up on Rio beaches every winter.
This is a compilation of images in which photographers have captured the beauty of our world, along with great moments among the living things we share this planet with. Most are from the reoccurring photo gallery The Natural World, in which photos of animals and our environment are selected from the many wire service photos moved throughout the year from all over the world. Many great photos of animals are taken in zoos, but this entry mostly shows creatures in their own habitat. -Leanne Burden Seidel(53 photos total)
A lenticular cloud formed as high winds blew over the rugged Crazy Mountains in Montana. Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes.
A Japanese snow monkey relaxed in a hot spring in the Jigokudani valley in northern Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
A bumble bee collected pollen from a blooming crocus in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on the first day of spring.
Walker the polar bear (right) met with new male companion Arktos at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland. It is hoped that 4-year-old Arktos, and the year younger, slightly smaller Walker will establish a relationship of friendly competitiveness.
A coral on a reef in the Kenting National Park spawned in Taiwan. Coral spawning usually takes place by the 23d day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which fell on April 13 this year.
A giant panda sat in a tree at a breeding center in Dujiangyan, China. The giant panda is among six young giant pandas which were bred in captivity and were released as a group of "pioneers" into an enclosed forest in Sichuan province.
An egret waited for its prey at the reclaimed area in Manila Bay known as Freedom Island in Paranaque, Philippines.
Seasonal winter storms lashed boats at anchor off Cape Town's Sea Point promenade. The Cape Peninsula has long been known as the "Cape of Storms" among sailors whose wrecked vessels have been scattered along the coastline at the southern tip of Africa for 400 years.
A damselfly rested on a turtle in a lake in the outskirts of Cali, Colombia. Colombia has the second largest biodiversity in the world.
Monkeys enjoyed a cold bath in a pond during a hot day in a rural neighborhood north of Bangkok. The Thai capital is seeing its hottest average temperatures in 30 years.
Elephants gathered during the night to drink at a watering hole in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. Seeing a dire situation grow worse, the animal conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) enlisted religious leaders in the fight to end the slaughter of Africa's elephants and rhinos by poachers, hoping that religion can help save some of the world's most majestic animals.
Incandescent materials, ash and smoke were spewed from the Popocatepetl Volcano as seen from the Santiago Xalitxintla, in the Mexican central state of Puebla.
Fall colors and the sunlit web of a labyrinthine orb weaver spider created an interesting mosaic in Fredericksburg, Va.
A mountain gorilla bared its teeth in a clearing in Virunga national park near Bunagana in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A morpho peleides butterfly laid its eggs while two ants surround one egg in Butterfly Garden in La Guacima, Costa Rica.
A male wild leopard climbed a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa, West Bengal, India.
A penguin swam off Arpoador beach in Rio de
Janeiro. Penguins arrive from the Antarctic Circle on ice floes that melt in the vicinity of Brazil's shore, and the birds wash up on Rio beaches every winter.
An egret stood on a ship mooring rope in Rio de Janeiro.
Long-tailed mayflies mated on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszainoka, Hungary.
Swirls of green and red appeared in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon. The aurora was due to the interaction of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun with Earth's magnetosphere.
An Indian Myna held a grasshopper for its chicks in a nest built inside the wall of an underpass in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi.
A tasselled wobbegong shark was seen lying on the substratum with the head of a brown-banded bamboo shark in its mouth during an underwater visual census of fishes on the fringing reef of Great Keppel Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
Surface melt water rushed along the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet through a supra-glacial stream channel, southwest of Ilulissat. Polar ice sheets are now melting three times faster than in the 1990s, and that's added less than half an inch to already rising global sea levels, a new giant scientific study says. The acceleration of the melting, especially in Greenland, has ice scientists worried.
A whale shark swam beside a diver in the Galapagos Islands. Galapagos National Park, Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the University of California - Davis, made satellite tagging of whale sharks in order to understand this species locally, regionally and globally in the migration process patterns.
A mother bear and two cubs, spooked by noise from TV helicopters, peered from a tree in Altadena, Calif.
A loggerhead turtle hatchling made its way to the surf at Myrtle Beach State Park in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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