Photo of the Day : Animals
(653 photos)
Lucky 13
Photo of the Day, July 8, 2014
A herd of elephants roams the orange-tinged landscape of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
This photo and caption were submitted ...
Leaps and Bounds
Photo of the Day, July 6, 2014
A young female otter runs toward photographer Mark Bridger at a wildlife center in Lingfield, Surrey, in England. “I’ve ...
50 Shades of Ray
Photo of the Day, July 5, 2014
A large school of mobula rays fades into the waters of Baja, Mexico. “The rays were moving quite fast and ...
Under the Sun
Photo of the Day, July 1, 2014
A Palestine sunbird (also known as the northern orange-tufted sunbird) seeks nectar on a sunny day near the Sea of ...
Marmot Watch
Photo of the Day, June 29, 2014
“This photo was taken during a 100-kilometer [62-mile] trekking trip in Ladakh, India, at an altitude of 4,500 meters ...
Growing Grouper
Photo of the Day, June 26, 2014
This ten-inch-long juvenile goliath grouper in the Florida Keys may spend five years among mangroves, relatively safe from predators, before ...
A Fragile Livelihood
Photo of the Day, June 25, 2014
In this picture from the July 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine, a girl tends goats in the mountains near ...
Mashatu Herd
Photo of the Day, June 23, 2014
"For years I have been fascinated by elephants and elephant herds," writes Your Shot member Jaco Marx. "I've traveled ...
Dolphin Games
Photo of the Day, June 21, 2014
"These two dolphins were playing out in the deeper ocean for some time," writes Brodie McCabe, who captured this picture ...
Beribboned in Bolivia
Photo of the Day, June 19, 2014
"At 14,000 feet in icy winds this llama was completely at home," writes Esther Buttery, who submitted this photo ...
Up on the Scaffold
Photo of the Day, June 15, 2014
"A horse is tied in a makeshift stall while Iranian youth gather on the scaffolding to watch the competition during ...
Warm and Fuzzy
Photo of the Day, June 12, 2014
A cygnet peers out from its mother's wing at a local pond in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. According to ...
Dive Sight
Photo of the Day, June 9, 2014
"I was diving off a live-aboard dive boat named Febrina in the Vitu Islands in West New Britain, Papua New ...
Where the Antelope Play
Photo of the Day, June 6, 2014
"We were driving around the Savute plains in northern Botswana, searching for a group of lions that had killed a ...
Swimming for Supper
Photo of the Day, June 2, 2014
"On Phuket, Thailand, monkeys [inhabit] the mangrove forest and tourists and locals come to feed them bananas and nuts," writes ...
Wild Horses
Photo of the Day, May 30, 2014
Wild horses graze under the watch of Mount John Laurie in Alberta, Canada. The peak is also known as Mount ...
Blacktip Close-Up
Photo of the Day, May 28, 2014
"This blacktip shark was shot in the evening in Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles," writes Imran Ahmad, a member of our Your ...
On the Hunt
Photo of the Day, May 26, 2014
"It was an early morning on Great Plains of the Serengeti," writes Your Shot community member Greg du Toit, who ...
A Man in Sheep's Clothes
Photo of the Day, May 24, 2014
"Here is a farm in Beyşehir, Turkey," Your Shot photographer Seyit Konyali writes. "Shortly after the birth of lambs, shepherd ...
Twin Beauties
Photo of the Day, May 22, 2014
Pale butterflies mirror each other on a stalk in this macro image submitted by Muhammad Mochtar, a member of our ...
Bird Buddy
Photo of the Day, May 20, 2014
A cooperative bird finds and eats insects from a Cape buffalo's face in a grooming ritual that pays off ...
White on White
Photo of the Day, May 18, 2014
Nearly camouflaged in his habitat, a polar bear surveys his surroundings. Cold doesn't bother these Arctic predators: Two layers ...
Huffing Puffins
Photo of the Day, May 15, 2014
Dueling puffins flare their wings and part their beaks in a muddy tussle on Skomer Island, Wales. Most puffin fights ...
Tree Pose
Photo of the Day, May 14, 2014
"A short-eared owl is in stretching and relaxing mode in a Kuwait natural reserve," says Mohn Khorshid, who submitted this ...
Crabby Boarder
Photo of the Day, May 12, 2014
A porcelain crab peers out from a sea anemone in this picture by Your Shot member Thomas Bannenberg, who captured ...
Hugging the Ice
Photo of the Day, May 11, 2014
In a picture that appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine, a lone harp seal hugs thinning ...
Birds of Bharatpur
Photo of the Day, May 8, 2014
"The Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India, is approximately 11 square miles" says Your Shot contributor Sreekumar Krishnan. "It ...
Peter Out
Photo of the Day, May 6, 2014
Rescued sheep Peter relaxes in the afternoon sun at Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary in Australia. "I'm very lucky ...
Wolffish Den
Photo of the Day, May 2, 2014
In this picture originally published in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine, a pair of Atlantic wolffish—named ...
Happiness Is a Warm Sun
Photo of the Day, April 25, 2014
"It was the first beautiful winter day in over a month, and the sun came out and everybody just stopped ...
Raven Mad
Photo of the Day, April 9, 2014
A great gray owl sweeps its wing in Yellowstone National Park in this picture from Your Shot member Henrik Nilsson ...
Bright Eye
Photo of the Day, April 5, 2014
"It was a warm day in spite of being early March, and I went out to photograph birds in Tokyo ...
Break Time
Photo of the Day, March 28, 2014
"This photo was taken at the break wall at Marina del Rey in southern California," says Your Shot member Karine ...
See Through
Photo of the Day, March 25, 2014
British artist and photographer Hugh Turvey uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light ...
Atoll Tale
Photo of the Day, March 22, 2014
Young Galápagos sharks—found around tropical oceanic reefs worldwide—nose the camera in the lagoon of the Bassas da India ...
Deer Sight
Photo of the Day, March 17, 2014
Roe deer, found throughout Europe, approach the edge of a forest in Bajzattanya, Hungary, near the village of Lónya on ...
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