The best photos of the outgoing week (01-07 November) from National Geographic

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

Today's selection of colorful photos from National Geographic dedicated to the great migrations in the animal world. And the speech will concern both the terrestrial world and the underwater world, both four-legged animals and the owners of gills, fins and flippers. Well, let's see?

01 november

Joel Sartore's photo shows the most beautiful Monarch butterfly. Despite the fact that the brain of a butterfly is no larger than a pinhead, it seems that it has the most powerful navigator in the world. Making flights over a distance sometimes exceeding 5 thousand kilometers, for example, from Canada to the mountains west of Mexico City, the Monarch often flies not only to the tree where her family lived, but also to the same branch. By the way, the Monarch's weight is no more than half a gram, and the wingspan reaches 10 cm.

02 november

Flashing wildebeests from Liuwa National Park in Zambia raise such a column of dust with their hooves that it seems like thick smog or fog lies over the road. Photo by Chris Johns.

03 November

Paul Nicklen's photo shows an entire squadron of Ghentu penguins swimming through the waters of the Drygalski Fjord (South Georgia Island). Unlike the chinstrap penguins, the Gentu penguins, or, as they are also called, the subantarctic penguins, prefer a more temperate climate. And as soon as the waters of the ocean begin to warm, the populations of Gentou move several kilometers to the south.

04 November

Zebras from Botswana, pictured by Robert B. Haas. They are also prone to migrations, and every year they travel from the Okavango Delta to the southeast, following the rains and resting where they find water. But in the end they still return home.

05 November

Walrus tusks have always been at a high price, and this has led to the fact that the current number of walruses in Svalbard (Norway) is about 2,000 individuals. So, since 1952, hunting walruses in Norway has been officially banned, but it is still not possible to restore the number of these mammals. Photo by Paul Nicklen.

06 November

White pelicans from the Mississippi are called among the largest feathered migrants. So, twice a year, flocks of these beautiful birds overcome great distances to get first to the wintering place, and then to the breeding site. The weight of the white pelican is more than 7 kg, and the wingspan reaches three meters, which is not surprising, given how much and how long they have to spend in the sky. Photo by Annie Griffiths.

07 november

And in the last photo this week, by Randy Olson, we see the migration of salmon. This is how six species of Pacific salmon return home, to Russia, to Kamchatka, for spawning.