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A view of a newborn calf being attended to by its mother.

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Close view of 7-month-old Lekedi, a baby western lowland gorilla that was confiscated from a poacher.

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A male forest chaser dragonfly rests on a leaf.

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View of the historic Alfama district.

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A school of sardines, Sardinops sagax, move in unision to to help protec tthemselves from a marauding shark, probably a copper shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus.

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Sunset illuminates the sand dunes east of The Dalles, Oregon.

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Bedouin tribal elder Hamad Haraiz tends camels, mother and baby, at nightfall in Sahamah, Oman, where he and his family have their camp.

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A newly exposed sandbar becomes a playground.

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The Observer, a World War II-era minesweeper that has been converted to a twelve-passenger cruising yacht, glides across the glassy waters of Alaska's Inside Passage.

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Scenes of hedgerows in south-mid Wales, in the landscape near Brecon Beacon National Park.

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A human hand holds an Attwater's prairie-chicken hatchling (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri).

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Close view of the mouth and teeth of Beipiaosaurus.

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A beautiful black butterfly with white "eyespots."

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Bikers cycle on Oat Hill Mine Trail in the Napa Valley.

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Sheep grazing in a field of dry grass.

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A close view of jellyfish in the waters of Alaska's Inside Passage, probably Stephens Passage.

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Steam rises from a volcanic rock formation.

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