The best photos of the past week (July 16-22) from National Geographic

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Our world is incredibly beautiful and attractive, it contains a lot of unknown, and secrets always attract, stirring up curiosity and the desire to learn and see as much as possible. And photos from National Geographic only confirm this theory, showing us the picturesque corners of our planet, where not all of us are lucky enough to visit. Today's selection of photos for July 16-22 completely dedicated to animals and their habitats.

July 16

Friends, as well as loved ones, are not chosen. And just as we are sometimes surprised by an atypical, strange, colorful couple, so the tandem of an iguana and a pelican, which bask on the stones of the Galapagos coast, causes surprise and a smile.

July 17th

With superior vision, sense of smell, and the ability to reach speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, coyotes have been called a symbol of adventure. A photographer captured this symbol in the winter while visiting Yellowstone National Park. According to him, the intelligent animal at first prudently hid in the forest, between branches and boulders, but then the coyote got out to explore, and lay down on the hill, continuing to surreptitiously observe the visitors. He seemed to be playing with people, flirting and drawing attention to himself.

July 18

A stunningly beautiful sight - pink flamingos gathering in flocks. As a rule, these graceful birds with plumage of amazing color flock into flocks, feeling an approaching threat or danger. This flock, which lives in Mexico near the port city of Sisal, Yucatan, perceived such a threat the approach of the plane of the researchers, one of whom took a photograph. Researchers here are studying several large groups of pink flamingos that live in estuaries around the Caribbean and beyond.

July 19

The Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is located 390 km from Nairobi and is a continuation of the Tanzanian Serengeti National Park, recognized as one of the best in the world. There is plenty of space for those who love exotic animals, and not to hunt, but to photograph them, or just watch. A couple of zebras in love, touching each other against the background of a twilight sky, was made just in this Kenyan reserve.

July 20

King vultures differ from other vultures in their bright color, as well as incredible gluttony. These beautiful birds sometimes gorge themselves so that they cannot move. They feed on fish, snakes and small mammals, but most of all they like to eat carrion. Thanks to a well-developed sense of smell and sight, king vultures can easily detect a dead animal from the height of their flight.

21 July

The glass eel, which is considered a separate species of fish, is actually nothing more than the larva of the river eel, but for its incredible appearance, which is strikingly different from the adult, it has a special name - leptocephalus. The transformation of leptocephals into glass eels takes place in the open ocean and takes up to three years, from a larva to a glass eel, from a glass eel to an adult river eel. Leaving for spawning, it is able to cover considerable distances: picked up by the Gulf Stream, the glass eel for three years moves along with the warm water mass to the shores of Europe, and many ichthyologists associate distant migrations of eels with changes in the properties of water in the postglacial period.

July 22

It is not for nothing that the white rabbit from Oregon is depicted in such a pose that it seems as if he is shy, ashamed, or reading a prayer. He jumped out onto the road right in front of the photographer's car, who was racing along the highway and barely had time to stop, screeching with brakes. So the rabbit got scared, hiding its muzzle in its paws, and giving the conscious driver a chance to capture himself at this momentous moment.