Nature—Week 4 Gallery
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- Beautiful to Behold, Wild at Heart
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- Beautiful to Behold, Wild at Heart
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- A male Grey Kangaroo can grow to 1.5m tall with a 1m long tail and can weigh up to 85kg. These magnificent animals are found throughout the Australian wild primarily inhabiting grasslands. Dingoes are a kangaroo’s natural predator and when threatened these marsupials will usually run away reaching speeds of up to 65kph. At maximum speed they are able to reach a distance of 6 metres in one hop. If threatened, kangaroos use warning displays such as hissing. If cornered, males are especially dangerous and may bite, scratch or even lash out with their powerful hind legs inflicting serious injury.
Photo and caption by Konstantine Eleftheria
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- Pelican, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- Pelican, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- A marine cruise in Walvis Bay, Namibia, is a memorable experience. I remember watching dolphins, seals, mola molas, cormorants... and having the privilege of picturing that one pelican at the exact moment he grabbed a bite thrown from the boat.
Photo and caption by ROMULO REJON
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- Staring Monkey in Kyushu island
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- Japanese macaques are running around in a place called "monkey mountain" near Beppu, in Oita prefecture, Japan. They have shrines and temples where monkeys cover themselves from the rain.
Photo and caption by beatriz posada
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- Storm Catcher
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- A storm brewing over Mt Bell in the Canadian Rockies and sweeping on towards Lake Louise. I was at the Wildlife Interpretation Centre at the top of the Lake Louise gondola. It was an astonishing sight, watching the storm suddenly emerge and then rush across the valley.
Photo and caption by Kenan Malik
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- Gelada Charge
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- Easily identified by their “bleeding hearts” Gelada baboons are endemic to the Ethiopian highlands and can be found in large troops foraging the grasslands of the Simien Mountains. Here a group of three young males had infiltrated a group of females and begun grooming them. On detecting this intrusion the alpha male charged the interlopers, reasserting his dominance over them and protecting his harem.
Photo and caption by Thomas Alexander
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- Water Magic
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- In a world of a million water pictures, it's easy to dismiss this as "just another reflection shot". Still, this unedited image proves how unreal water can behave under certain circumstances. Here I stand at the narrowest point of a small lake, and as usual I have thrown objects into the water to see how it behaves visually. Because the lake was so narrow, only a few meters, the circles start to recoil from land. The effect is called, to my knowledge, interference, but I have yet to see anything similar, even after all these years of throwing rocks into the water.
Photo and caption by Jorgen Tharaldsen
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