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Last update: 2017-07-27
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Cheetah
(Kenya)
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Frog
(Kenya)
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Female lion standing over its kill
(Tanzania)
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Plains zebras (Equus quagga)
(Zimbabwe)
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Cheetah on a termite mound
(Kenya)
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Black-maned lion
(Kenya)
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Sea otter
(United States)
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Group of buffalo watching two spotted hyena
(Tanzania)
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Humpback whale doing a tail wave
(United States)
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Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) smelling its foot
(Tanzania)
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Frog
(Kenya)
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Palmchat (Dulus dominicus) on a palm in the village of Mencia,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Orphaned elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
(Kenya)
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Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) on sea ice in front of Johns Hopkins Glacier
(United States)
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Female lion chasing a jackal off from a kill
(Tanzania)
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Male Defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) headshot
(Kenya)
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Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Pelagic Cormorant
(United States)
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Dew on spider web in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Infant elephant
(Kenya)
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A Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) with grass seeds on its face near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Humpback whales breaching
(United States)
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A caterpillar in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Drowned African buffalo (Syncerus caffeer) in Chobe Naitonal Park
(Botswana)
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Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
(United States)
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Elephants -- tz_1784
(Tanzania)
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Female lion guarding her kill from a jackal
(Tanzania)
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Dead crab in Hana
(United States)
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Defassa waterbuck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus
(Kenya)
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Dungeness crab
(United States)
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Headless and bloated anaconda corpse
(Suriname)
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Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) on sea ice in front of Johns Hopkins Glacier
(United States)
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Vervet monkey feeding on flowers
(Tanzania)
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White-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali)
(Botswana)
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Running bear cubs
(United States)
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Red-necked Francolin
(Tanzania)
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Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii)
(Tanzania)
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Lioness -- tz_2326
(Tanzania)
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Greater blue-eared starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus)
(Kenya)
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Zebra in the Loita hills
(Kenya)
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Green sea turtle killed by a jaguar
(Suriname)
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Gray-footed Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes)
(Botswana)
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Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) -- tz_1384
(Tanzania)
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A yellow beetle in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Bohor reedbuck
(Kenya)
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Lioness -- tz_2338
(Tanzania)
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Angry elephant
(Tanzania)
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Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) -- tz_1706
(Tanzania)
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Black and white colobus monkey in a Jacaranda tree
(Kenya)
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Elephants -- tz_1789
(Tanzania)
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Wildebeest herd -- tz_elf_0505
(Tanzania)
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Pair of Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)
(Kenya)
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African elephant -- tz_2083
(Tanzania)
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Baby reedbuck
(Tanzania)
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Pair of cheetah
(Tanzania)
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Eastern Tree Dassie (Dendrohyrax arboreus) scratching
(Tanzania)
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Elephants on the African savanna
(Kenya)
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Tailless Mabuya skink on a tree trunk
(Tanzania)
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A Vervain Hummingbird (Mellisuga minima),the second smallest hummingbird in the world,in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Field mouse on Mt. Kenya
(Kenya)
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Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) on sea ice in front of Johns Hopkins Glacier
(United States)
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African elephant (Loxodonta africana)
(Kenya)
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Black and white colobus monkey feeding in a tree
(Kenya)
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Elephant calves at play
(Tanzania)
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Elephants at sun down
(Kenya)
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Elephants huddled in the shade of an Acacia
(Tanzania)
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Rehabilitated Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Orphaned elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
(Kenya)
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A hermit crab at Bahia de las Aguilas at Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Female lions with zebra kill
(Tanzania)
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Leatherback sea turtle laying eggs on the beach
(Suriname)
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Zebra and wildebeest
(Tanzania)
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Gulls in flight
(United States)
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Warthogs
(Kenya)
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Standing bears
(United States)
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A crab on the mangroves in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) watching through savanna grass
(Tanzania)
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Brown bear cubs
(United States)
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Baboons
(Tanzania)
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A pelican in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in a tree
(Tanzania)
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Sykes's Monkey, Cercopithecus albogularis
(Kenya)
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Elephants in the Maasai Mara
(Kenya)
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Bald eagle
(United States)
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Zebra among dry vegetation
(Tanzania)
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Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
(United States)
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Stellar's sea lions
(United States)
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Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) -- tz_1996
(Tanzania)
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Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) flying over Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
(United States)
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Stellar's sea lions
(United States)
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Lioness with zebra kill -- tz_1630
(Tanzania)
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Gray headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephal)
(Kenya)
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Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) -- tz_1676
(Tanzania)
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Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) -- tz_1366
(Tanzania)
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Black-chested Snake-eagle (Circaetus pectoralis) -- tz_1532
(Tanzania)
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Hippo lying on a mudflat
(Tanzania)
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Orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
(Kenya)
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A manatee in the Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Large group of banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) -- tz_1503
(Tanzania)
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Group of field mice in Tanzania
(Tanzania)
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Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) on the banks of the Kinabantagan River in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Infant elephant
(Kenya)
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Cheetah -- tz_2546
(Tanzania)
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Lioness with zebra kill -- tz_1639
(Tanzania)
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Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
(United States)
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Male lion
(Kenya)
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Stellar's sea lions
(United States)
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Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) on sea ice in front of Johns Hopkins Glacier
(United States)
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Go-away bird
(Kenya)
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Ibis at the Oviedo Lagoon in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) -- tz_2384
(Tanzania)
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African puff adder (Bitis arietans)
(Tanzania)
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Father warthog chasing a baby warthog
(Kenya)
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Sykes's Monkey, Cercopithecus albogularis
(Kenya)
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Hippos
(Tanzania)
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Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2268
(Tanzania)
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Bat-eared Fox (Otocyon megalotis virgatus )
(Tanzania)
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Black and white colobus monkey in a tree
(Kenya)
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Macaques (unidentified species) visit lodge in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) -- tz_2385
(Tanzania)
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Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx) -- tz_2004
(Tanzania)
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Bateleur eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus) in flight -- tz_1664
(Tanzania)
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Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis)
(Tanzania)
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Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) -- tz_1992
(Tanzania)
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A pelican in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Cockroach in the Gomantong Cave in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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White-headed Vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis), endemic to Africa
(Kenya)
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Eland
(Kenya)
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Researchers fit a radial collar onto a female Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Plains zebras (Equus quagga)
(Zimbabwe)
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Black and white colobus monkey in a Jacaranda tree
(Kenya)
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A bird in a mangrove tree in Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Male and female ostrich
(Tanzania)
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Wild male Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in a tree along the Kinabantagan River in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Black Colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis)
(Kenya)
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Maasai giraffe feeding -- tz_1889
(Tanzania)
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Drongo
(Kenya)
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A Vervain Hummingbird (Mellisuga minima),the second smallest hummingbird in the world,in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2227
(Tanzania)
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Macaques (unidentified) on the banks of the Kinabantagan River in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Young female lion -- tz_1730
(Tanzania)
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Kirk's Dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) -- tz_1346
(Tanzania)
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Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2223
(Tanzania)
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Female lion eating a wildebeest -- tz_2301
(Tanzania)
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Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) -- tz_1304
(Tanzania)
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Profile of a spotted hyena -- tz_2396
(Tanzania)
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School children visiting orphaned elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
(Kenya)
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Thomson's Gazelle (Gazella thomsoni)
(Kenya)
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A cattle egret in mangrove trees in Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Captive albino zebra
(Kenya)
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A pelican soraring over karst formations in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Lioness with zebra kill -- tz_1633
(Tanzania)
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Humpback whale rolling in kelp
(United States)
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Elephant calves
(Tanzania)
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) - headshot
(Kenya)
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Sacred ibis in Lake Magadi
(Tanzania)
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Humpback whale flipper
(United States)
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Spotted hyena, warthogs, and Thomsons gazelle together on a grassy plain
(Tanzania)
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Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) feeding on a lion kill -- tz_2312
(Tanzania)
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Humpback whales breaching
(United States)
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) -- tz_2532
(Tanzania)
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Lion -- tz_1619
(Tanzania)
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Vervet monkey feeding on flowers -- tz_1336
(Tanzania)
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Vervet Monkeys involved in monkey business
(Tanzania)
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Southern Ground Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) -- tz_1309
(Tanzania)
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African fish eagle atop a tree -- tz_1515
(Tanzania)
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Maasai Mara sunset width buffalo
(Kenya)
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Male common impala (Aepyceros melampus melampus) at Chobe National Park
(Botswana)
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Family of warthogs
(Kenya)
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Lappet-faced Vulture or Nubian Vulture, (Torgos tracheliotus)
(Kenya)
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Humpback whales breaching
(United States)
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Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2291
(Tanzania)
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Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) -- tz_elf_0623
(Tanzania)
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Blacksmith Plover (Vanellus armatus) -- tz_1668
(Tanzania)
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Plains zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) -- tz_1378
(Tanzania)
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Masai or Kilimanjaro Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) -- tz_1753
(Tanzania)
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Male ostrich defending chicks -- tz_1881
(Tanzania)
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Gulls in flight
(United States)
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Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) -- tz_1414
(Tanzania)
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Topi - headshot
(Kenya)
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Guineafowl, thompson's gazelle and a hyena
(Kenya)
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Black-lined Plated Skink (Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus)
(Tanzania)
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A separated tarantula leg near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Swifts (unidentified) in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Sacred ibis and Abdim's Storks
(Tanzania)
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African Hoopoe, Upupa africana
(Kenya)
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Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Lioness -- tz_2340
(Tanzania)
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Great Argus pheasant (Arguslanus argus) on the road in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx) -- tz_2016
(Tanzania)
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Pair of lions
(Tanzania)
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A frigate bird soars over Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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A spider near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) -- tz_2533
(Tanzania)
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Cape buffalo with a Red-billed Oxpecker -- tz_1589
(Tanzania)
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Male ostrich with chicks -- tz_1864
(Tanzania)
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African elephants -- tz_1472
(Tanzania)
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African lion -- tz_1600
(Tanzania)
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Cheetah -- tz_2549
(Tanzania)
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Southern Ground Hornbill holding an insect in its mouth
(Tanzania)
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Unique decor in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis) -- tz_2480
(Tanzania)
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Close up of the tusks of a Southern warthog (Phacochoerus africanus sundevallii) in Chobe National Park
(Botswana)
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Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) feeding at sunset in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
(United States)
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Kilimanjaro Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) -- tz_1743
(Tanzania)
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Humpback whales
(United States)
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) -- tz_2535
(Tanzania)
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) -- tz_2529
(Tanzania)
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Augur buzzard -- tz_2197
(Tanzania)
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Sea otters at play
(United States)
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Male ostrich defending chicks -- tz_1867
(Tanzania)
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A baby zebra is called a foal
(Kenya)
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Catfish on a line
(Guyana)
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Black and white colobus monkey feeding in a tree
(Kenya)
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Humpback whale tail
(United States)
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African Orange-bellied Parrot, Poicephalus rufiventris
(Tanzania)
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A Vervain Hummingbird (Mellisuga minima),the second smallest hummingbird in the world,in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Common Fiscal (Lanius collaris) -- tz_1400
(Tanzania)
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Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) -- tz_1998
(Tanzania)
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Lions showing camouflage abilities -- tz_elf_0492
(Tanzania)
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Orphaned elephant playing football
(Kenya)
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Baby hippo on the banks of the Mara river
(Kenya)
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Lion approaching a wildebeest herd
(Kenya)
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Cattle in northern New Mexico
(United States)
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Black-chested Snake-eagle (Circaetus pectoralis) -- tz_1533
(Tanzania)
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Humpback whales
(United States)
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Infant elephant
(Kenya)
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Lion -- tz_1617
(Tanzania)
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African lion -- tz_1596
(Tanzania)
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African elephants -- tz_1436
(Tanzania)
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A snail near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Bohor Reedbuck (Redunca redunca) doe at the edge of a forest clearing
(Kenya)
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Aerial view of South African giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa) in the Okavango delta
(Botswana)
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Male Purple Grenadier (Ureaginthus Ianthinogaster)
(Kenya)
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African Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus)
(Kenya)
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Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
(United States)
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Stellar's sea lions
(United States)
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Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) -- tz_1746
(Tanzania)
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Male ostrich running -- tz_1765
(Tanzania)
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Bald eagle atop a tree in Glacier Bay National Park
(United States)
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Gulls
(United States)
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Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2277
(Tanzania)
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White-bellied Bustard (Eupodotis senegalensis) [female] -- tz_1984
(Tanzania)
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Kirk's Dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) -- tz_1347
(Tanzania)
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Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) -- tz_1375
(Tanzania)
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Ants scurry over the leaf litter in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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Elephants -- tz_elf_0483
(Tanzania)
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African open bill stork (Anastomus lamelligerus) hunting in the mud
(Botswana)
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A Vervain Hummingbird (Mellisuga minima),the second smallest hummingbird in the world,in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Zebra on a dirt road
(Tanzania)
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Domestic water buffalo in Sabah, Malaysia
(Malaysia)
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A hermit crab at Bahia de las Aguilas at Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Chickens are prepared as part of a family dinner by the river near Mencia in the Pedernales Province of the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Thomsons Gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) [female]
(Tanzania)
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Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) -- tz_1705
(Tanzania)
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Gold dust day gecko, a non-native lizard species in Hawaii
(United States)
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Cattle on the road in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Abdim's Storks (Ciconia abdimii) atop a tree -- tz_1477
(Tanzania)
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White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus) -- tz_1959
(Tanzania)
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Pair of common jackal (Canis aureus)
(Tanzania)
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Researchers carry a Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) in a cloth sack. This keeps the animal safe and calm before the radial collar fitting needed for their research.
(Dominican Republic)
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A tarantula on a road near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Vultures feeding on a kill -- tz_elf_0637
(Tanzania)
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Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii)
(Kenya)
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Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis) -- tz_1548
(Tanzania)
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Maasai Mara sunset
(Kenya)
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Lion cubs -- tz_1658
(Tanzania)
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A manatee in the Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Female lion eating a wildebeest -- tz_2302
(Tanzania)
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Male ostrich defending chicks -- tz_1873
(Tanzania)
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Group of Southern Eland (Taurotragus oryx)
(Kenya)
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Unknown skink
(Kenya)
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) - headshot
(Kenya)
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Line of zebra
(Kenya)
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Group of buffalo keeping an eye on two spotted hyena
(Tanzania)
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Brown bear cubs
(United States)
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Mother elephant leading calves across a streambed
(Tanzania)
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Masai or Kilimanjaro Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) -- tz_1755
(Tanzania)
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Lesser flamingo in Lake Magadi
(Tanzania)
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White mountain goat
(United States)
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Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) on sea ice in front of Johns Hopkins Glacier
(United States)
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Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) in Chobe National Park
(Botswana)
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Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Infant elephant
(Kenya)
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Common Fiscal (Lanius collaris) -- tz_1401
(Tanzania)
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A Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala)
(Kenya)
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Female lion eating a wildebeest -- tz_2243
(Tanzania)
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A baby rooster kept for cock fighting in the village of Mencia in the Pedernales Province of the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Eland
(Kenya)
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A little blue heron at Oviedo Lagoon in the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Flukes of a humpback whale tail
(United States)
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Gulls in flight
(United States)
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Chickens are prepared as part of a family dinner by the river near Mencia in the Pedernales Province of the Dominican Republic.
(Dominican Republic)
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Brown bear cubs
(United States)
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Cape buffalo with a Red-billed Oxpecker -- tz_1584
(Tanzania)
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Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) -- tz_1703
(Tanzania)
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