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pend a few minutes playing with the Google machine and it’s easy to find hundreds of inspirational quotes about photography, ranging from the poignant to the so-cheesy-they-shouldcome-with-crackers. ‘You don’t take a good photo, you make it’; ‘Photography is a love affair with life’; ‘Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still’. Allow me, if you will, to come to the party with my own slogan: it’s hard to take a bad nature photo. I reached this conclusion not long after we decided to take a holiday from the usual World of Knowledge format
and produce our first-ever edition devoted solely to photography – a special collectors’ issue in addition to the 12 magazines we publish each year. There’s hundreds of thousands of candidates for the 100 Greatest Ever Nature Photos, but those that made the final cut were the images that stirred an emotion in our team. Lighting, composition and timing all matter, yet the best photos carry that magical something, something you can’t quite describe. You don’t need an inspirational quote to tell you it’s great. Vince Jackson, Editor Follow me on Twitter: @vince_jackson1 3
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THE TOOTH HURTS
The saltwater crocodile has the strongest bite force of any animal, their jaws exerting 3,700 pounds per square inch (psi). By comparison, you tear into a steak with 150psi.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTER
A scuba diver approaches a pair of humpback whales off the coast of Roca Partidar, Mexico. The majestic monsters can cover 1,600km a month during migration, on their way to a total of 5,000km.
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TICKLE ME PINK
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Boats collect salt from Lake Retba in Senegal, famous for its high salt content – up to 40% in some areas. The presence of the algae dunaliella saline gives the water its unique colour.
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ASH APOCALYPSE
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After being dormant for over 400 years, Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupts in 2014. Its pyroclastic flow (hot ash, lava and gases) travelled up to 4.5km.
GREEN-EYED MONSTER
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No, it’s not a new X-Men character. It’s the head of the eastern green mamba snake, native to south-east Africa. A bite can produce death in humans in 30 minutes.
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THE BIG CHILL
A hippopotamus enjoys a spot of rest and relaxation in Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park. Despite their size (and apparent laziness), a 1,500kg hippo can run at 30km/h.
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LET’S DO THE TWIST
The destructively beautiful sight of a tornado touchdown over Campo, Colorado. Tornadoes may appear nearly transparent until they pick up dust and/or debris.
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LORDS OF THE DANCE Nature’s slickest movers strut their stuff
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Kamchatka brown bear Russia
Verreaux’s sifaka Madagascar Red-eyed tree frog Indonesia
Polar bear Alaska
Little egrets Australia Masked lapwing Australia
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MEET MY WINGMAN
Golden eagles are used for hunting by Kazakh tribesmen, native to Western Mongolia. The birds are not bred in captivity: they’re taken from nests at a young age.
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FLYING SAUCER
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An awe-inspiring lenticular cloud over Argentina. They’re known as ‘UFO clouds’, due to their distinctive shape, and form at high altitudes, normally at rightangles to the wind direction.
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FISHY BUSINESS
The ‘Endangered Species’ exhibition at London Zoo displays this mesmerising collection of seahorses. The Chinese traditional medicine trade kills 150 million of the fish a year.
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POLES APART
Rare blue icebergs such as this beauty in Antarctica are formed from the compression of pure snow, which then creates glacial ice. And sometimes, they become a makeshift playground for the region’s penguin population.
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BIRD BRAINS
NATURAL BLONDE
Known for their gleaming manes, ulta-rare Karabakh horses are the national emblem of Azerbaijan.
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As well as being things of beauty, crows are among Earth’s most intelligent animals – as clever as apes.
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EPIC JOURNEY
Loaded with pollen, bees return to their hive. The hive flies 140,000km to collect just 1kg of honey.
SPECIAL BLEND
The silhouette of a bird merges seamlessly with the darkened outline of the San Francisco skyline.
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ON FULL BEAM
Moonlight – which is really reflected light from the Sun – illuminates a cave on the Turks and Caicos Island chain. Even so, a full Moon is around a million times fainter than the Sun.
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GOING GREEN
A green sea turtle cruises the open ocean in Cebu, Philippines. Unlike other sea turtles, the species cannot pull its head into its shell. But it can hold its breath for hours at a time.
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CAMO CREATURES Now you see them, now you don’t…
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Coral fish Philippines
Northern death adder Australia
Common octopus South Africa
Eastern screech owl USA Grey tree frog Canada
Huntsman spider Indonesia
Bornean rainbow toad Borneo
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CALM AMONG THE STORM A swan tries to maintain its grace as ducks create havoc in Massapequa Preserve, Long Island, USA. Male swans are one of few bird species to have a penis.
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BUM DEAL
MASTERS OF SPIN
Funnel weaver spiders build funnel-shaped webs in which to catch their prey.
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Gelada baboons have human-like buttocks. Handy, as they spend most of the day sitting.
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OCEAN SMART
Manta rays have the largest brain-to-bodyweight ratio of any living fish.
HUNGRY MOB
Kangaroos wait to be fed at Depot Beach Caravan Park on NSW’s south coast.
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WISE GUY
A fence pole in the middle of a British field is the perfect nocturnal vantage point for the common barn owl. Barn owls make screeching sounds rather than hoots.
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NIGHT WATCHMAN
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A lioness rests at dusk on the Ndutu Plains in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the local Maasai tongue, Ngorongoro means ‘gift of life’.
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CUTTING EDGE
Carrying up to 800 times its own bodyweight is a cinch for a leaf cutter ant, which slices off leaf fragments, then heaves them back to its nest.
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BATH TIME
At Japan’s Jigokudani Monkey Park, the population of snow monkeys likes nothing better than to soak in one of the area’s hot springs.
MR BIG STUFF
The Lion’s Mane jellyfish is the largest known jellyfish, with a bell (head) diameter of over two metres and tentacles up to 30-metres long.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST An adult lion’s luscious mane is designed to protect its neck during fights and mating rituals.
HELPING NEMO
Sea anemonea (green shoots) are predators that attach themselves to rocks or coral, but happily co-exist with the gorgeous clown fish.
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WHEN IN ROME
The acrobatics of starling flocks over Rome. The birds descend on the ancient city every autumn, painting the sky with majestic patterns – and the pavements with tonnes of starling poop.
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SH-SH-SHARK!
A terrifying close-up of a great white shark in the murky waters off South Africa. Their mouths contain 300 of those fearsome, serrated gnashers – and they can shed up to 35,000 of them in a lifetime.
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COOL KAT
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A meerkat strikes a handsome pose in California. The creature isn’t actually cat-related; it’s part of the mongoose family, native to south-west Africa.
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SCHOOL RUN
At Indonesia’s International Rescue School, baby orangutans are taken to ‘survival classes’ in an unusual mode of transport.
LAZY DAYS
Sloths are lethargic treedwellers, native to Central and South America. And when they move, they’re slow. Four-metres-a-minute slow.
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Rhinoceros + cattle egrets
NATURE’S HITCH-HIKERS How to give a lift to your fellow creatures
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Toad + turtle
Impala + red-billed oxpeckers
Buffalo + yellow-billed oxpeckers
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NEEDY CHILDREN
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A nest of baby swallows crying for their parents in Kobe, Japan. It takes a pair of adult swallows 1,200 journeys to build a home.
MOOSE ON THE LOOSE
Not a sight you’d want to see on a walk in the forests of Darlana, Sweden: a two-metre-tall, 850kg moose, one of 400,000 in the country.
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FEAR FACTOR
It’s big, it’s hairy… it’s a tarantula! The spider feeds on insects and larger game like mice, frogs and small birds. Its maximum size is up to 30cm.
WHITER THAN WHITE There’s few images as sublime as a snowy owl in flight. The ghost-like birds are one of the few diurnal owls, meaning they hunt at both day and night.
LIFE IMITATES ART
When photos look like paintings… the Namib Desert’s oryx population have adapted to survive for long periods without water.
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CURIOUS CAT
A juvenile African lion cub gives the snapper’s camera a prod during a shoot in the Masai Mara National Park, Kenya. All its hunting skills will have been learned by two years of age.
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BORN TO RUN
Sled rider’s view of his huskies on the freezing plains of Greenland. The dogs possess amazing stamina, often covering 160km a day, but need 12,000 calories every 24 hours to sustain that pace.
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VIP ESCORT
A casual afternoon stroll today, but when they put their minds to it ostriches can run at 50km/h.
BAD TIMING
Inappropriate moment take a selfie? When there’s a 250kg Alaskan grizzly bear just over your shoulder.
MAKING ITS MARK
Zebras are actually black with white stripes. Those lines deflect 70% of the heat hitting its body.
GO WITH THE FLOW Close-up of dramatic lava flows from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, active now for over 40 years.
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CAMEL CARAVANS
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In the Gobi Desert, a convoy of camels set off during a glorious sunrise. If they find water, they can guzzle 110 litres in 10 minutes.
STORMWARNING
Apocalyptic clouds loom over Redcliffe Beach, Queensland. Weather systems like these can dump 200mm of rain per hour.
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ANIMAL SELFIES
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Because creatures have vain streaks, too
Balinese longtailed monkey Indonesia
Grey squirrel USA
Orangutan Borneo
Celebes crested macaque Indonesia
Mongrel Germany
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MASTER OF DISGUISE Owl butterflies use clever wing markings to ward off potential predators – and make us swoon.
FIELDS OF GLORY
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A glorious elevated view of a series of rice terraces at dusk in China’s Yunnan province.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
Each of nature’s 2,000 firefly species produce their own lightflashing pattern. All are magical.
A VIEW TO A KILL
King brown snakes produce venom in huge quantities, up to 15 times more than tiger snakes.
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FROZEN IN TIME
Take a good, hard look at this stunning high-altitude shot of the glacier tongue near the Khan Tengri peaks, Kyrgyzstan: the glaciers in this location have lost 35% of their surface during the 20th century.
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SEALED WITH A KISS
No wonder Jupiter the lion is giving Julia Torres a smacker: the Colombian’s animal shelter rescued the cat from a circus in 1999.
GREENER PASTURES
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One of many surreal, Tolkien-esque landscapes in southern Iceland, created when moss forms over rugged lava plains.
SPIKY CHARACTER
Beneath that ball of 6,000 needles is a hedgehog. The spines are hollow, modified hairs – and feel like a hairbrush, apparently.
RUN AGROUND
Not a sight any young child will ever forget: a giant whale shark washed up on a beach in Botany Bay, Australia, in 1965.
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WARM OVERCOAT
With their dense insulating fur, polar bears are built for swimming in the freezing waters off Canada’s Repulse Bay. Plus, beneath their thick fuzz lies a layer of fat measuring up to 11.5 centimetres thick.
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ELECTRIC DREAM
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Mother Nature stages a spectacular boom crash opera above Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, USA.
SAFETY IN NUMBERS Herring off Indonesia’s Maluku Islands form huge ‘bait balls’ to reduce their chances of being eaten by predators.
PIGGY-PADDLE
The feral pigs of Caribbean island Big Major Cray have taught themselves a mean front crawl.
STAYING FAITHFUL Maybe this swan is searching for its partner in a field in Germany: the birds are known to be monogamous.
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LEADER OF THE PACK
African elephants and their ‘shadow herd’ on the barren landscape of Namibia’s Damaraland District. Elephants have an ordered social fabric: a dominant matriarchal cow, for example, always leads the herd.
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ICE ISLAND
Looming like a giant floating jewel, a green-tinged iceberg calved from the Ilulissat Kangerlua Glacier, Greenland. But it’s a midget compared to the world’s largest ever iceberg, which measured 295-km long.
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MASSIVE MIGRATIONS When animals move in large numbers
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Pink Salmon Alaska
Lesser flamingos Kenya
Zebra Kenya
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Wildebeest Kenya
Caribou Alaska
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WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION A sailfish’s serrated bill is a multifunctional killing tool, used to slash at prey and – surprisingly – to delicately de-stabilise individual fish before eating them. Poor sardines never stood a chance.
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NATURAL CURVES
Olive trees can live for over 1,000 years. And in northeastern Tunisia, their groves are planted in curved embankments to retain water and limit erosion. But you can only appreciate their splendour from the air.
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GETTING AHEAD IN LIFE
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A hammerhead’s odd-shaped noggin isn’t just a quirk. The wide-set head means their ultra-sensitive sensory organs can better scan the ocean for food, including stingrays which bury themselves under the sand.
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DEER, OH DEER
Nature is nothing if not brutal sometimes. Up close and personal with two dueling male deer in Switzerland. Forks on the antlers create grooves that allow combatants to lock horns without injuring each other’s faces.
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OUT OF HARM’S WAY
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No wonder rowing boat man looks relaxed in the waters off the Philippines: despite their size (an average of 9.7m long), a whale shark has never purposefully injured or killed a human.
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STANDING PROUD
A male peafowl (peacock) spreads its memserising feathers in South Korea. A peacock’s plumage changes colour with the angle of incident light, and can makeor-break his chances of mating.
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BAA-D TO THE BONE
The bighorn sheep and its offspring, native to North America, take an afternoon siesta in the Californian outback. The horn of the now-rare species can weigh up to 14kg, as much as the rest of the bones in its body.
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