Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Photo of the Day 491
Photograph by Amanda Kopp This Month in Photo of the Day: Your Photos The piglet is one day old and crippled. The mother had more babies than nipples to feed them. The farmer talked about putting this one out of its misery but decided to let some Swazi orphan children take care of it and feed it with a bottle instead. Now the little pig has grown big and strong! —Caption by Amanda Kopp Photo of the Day 350
Photograph by Chris Johns The gape-mouthed territorial display of a dominant male hippopotamus, such as this one on the Zambezi River, looks more like a colossal yawn. During mating season, males will claim a length of shoreline and fiercely defend it, occasionally even killing a bachelor rival. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 75Silhouette of African Cheetahs, Africa, 1999Photograph by Chris Johns A striking silhouette shows off the lithe form of a cheetah approaching a tree for a late afternoon slumber. The fastest land animal in the world, cheetahs once thrived in Africa and Asia, but lion predation haunts their young, and farms and ranching have reduced their habitat. Today an estimated 12,000 cheetahs live in 30 countries, helped by conservationists. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands," December 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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