Best Photos of the Week (February 13-19) by National Geographic

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

Traditional selection of the best photos from National Geographic per February 13-19 as always associated with travel to different parts of our planet. But this time it can be called "a pair of each creature." To be in love, attentive, caring and gentle - animals can do that too.

February 13

The state of New Jersey is informally known as the "state of the gardens". Despite this, the state is built up with resort towns, and the gardens occupy only the western part of it. In one of these gardens, which is on the territory of the Island Beach State Park, the photographer took a picture of this cute couple of foxes.

The 14th of February

Bwindi National Park is often called the "Impenetrable Forest" due to its landscape features. This park is the main tourist destination in Uganda, as it is home to the rarest mountain gorillas, of which there are about 700 individuals in the world. Slightly less than half of them, namely 340 individuals, live in Bwindi. 4 families of gorillas are open for tourists on the territory of Bwindi. But to see these rare animals, you need to get a special permit. It must be ordered several months in advance, and only one small group of six people can visit the gorillas a day.

February, 15

Beautiful birds with an interesting, almost triangular beak, orange legs and large white breasts are called Atlantic puffins, or Atlantic puffins. To observe these rare birds, tourists and bird watchers come to the island of Macias Seal in the US state of Maine. The island is known for being a haven for puffins and other endangered birds. There, on the rocky coast, they gather every summer to incubate eggs and "raise" offspring.

16 february

If every adult is a child at heart, then what about adult animals? A striking example is two zebras from Zambia. A three-month-old baby foal frolics with an adult zebra, so much fun that at first glance it is impossible to understand where the adult is here and where the child is.

February 17

The most positive and sunny photo of today's collection is fluffy lumps, newborn yellow ducklings. Their mother died tragically from the teeth of a neighbor's dog, and the kids grew up in an incubator. As you can see, they were very well looked after, so that the babies got stronger and already stand firmly on their small paws.

18th of Febuary

Indeed, those people are a thousand times right who say that small children are much more fearless than adults. A Vietnamese baby, not afraid of either the hooves or horns of a young buffalo, calmly uses it as a riding horse. And he, it seems, does not mind …

19 february

One would think that a couple of giraffes are deliberately posing in a romantic place - at sunset in Kenya's Samburu National Reserve. But the author of the photo claims that it was taken completely by accident, while walking in this park. Another confirmation that it is extremely important for the photographer to capture the right moment, being at the right time in the right place.