A golden jackal peers suspiciously though the tall grass on the savannah plain. Fishing boat

A golden jackal peers suspiciously though the tall grass on the savannah plain. Fishing boatA golden jackal peers suspiciously though the tall grass on the savannah plain. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Narok County, Kenya.

Asian elephants in colorful silk and lights at the Esala Perahera

The jet black feathers of a Great Cormorant perched on a branch

The foamy edge of a winter wave sweeps onto an empty sandy beach

A new color morph of the Amazon Dart Frog peers out of its bromeliad home that it also defends

here formed over a wetland lagoon at dawn

father or brother

Skink burrowing tracks criss-cross a red sand dune

The Virgen del Socorro presiding over the neoclassical high altar

A teacher helps a student with the letters of the alphabet at school

A Cortinarius Mushroom growing through moss on a Beech forest floor

Mount Hotham Alpine Resort

A male African Lion rests among small shrubs on the savannah plain waiting for prey