Photo of the Day: What are You Looking at?
A confiscated male orangutan smuggled from Indonesia looks out of a cage at Khao Pratupchang Wildlife Breeding Centre in Ratchaburi province, Thailand. The centre takes care of 11 orangutans, 72 tigers and more than 300 other animals which are rescued from traffickers. (EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRI)
Photo of the Day: Mother’s Little Helpers
Two female North American River Otters at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York – trained by zookeeper Catina Wright – take empty bottles and place them into recycling bins. (Democrat & Chronicle, Annette Lein/AP)
Photo of the Day: Flying Tree
A cut-down tree hovers over houses as it is transported away by a helicopter in Hannoversch Muenden, central Germany. (UWE ZUCCHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Photo of the Day: Nice to Meet You
Photographer Dan Dinu had a close encounter with a curious fox that was definitely ready for its close-up. Luckily his pal Cristian Goga was able to snap the moment. Dan was making his way to St Ana Lake in central Romania when he encountered the male fox. Dan says: The behaviour is due to the fact that it has been raised by a forest ranger, therefore it was used to people. Yet, it is not right to encourage such a behaviour, as animals must remain wild. It cannot be sure that next time, instead of looking at a camera, it will not look into a rifle. (Dan Dinu/Cristian Goga/Rex Features)
Photo of the Day: Assimilation
A telephone pole near Upington in South Africa is covered by nests made of twigs and grass by sociable weaver birds. Photographer Dillon Marsh’s ‘Assimilation’ project shows how the birds make good use of the manmade poles in a landscape with few real trees. We will have a gallery of his photos on the Telegraph site later today. (Dillon Marsh/Rex Features)
Photo of the Day: Robo Chief
A robot waiter brings dishes of food to customers at a robot restaurant in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. (WANG JIANWEI/CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA)
Photo of the Day: Walk this Way!
Children react as a carnivorous theropod known as the Australovenator dinosaur walks through crowds along the Southbank in London. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)
Photo of the Day: The Emperor Penguins
Paul Nicklen of Canada won 1st Prize in the Nature Stories category for his photographs of Emperor Penguins. Scientists discover that Emperor Penguins are capable of tripling their swimming speed by releasing millions of bubbles from their feathers. These bubbles reduce the friction between their feathers and the icy seawater, allowing them to accelerate in the water. (Paul Nicklen/ National Geographic Magazine)
Photo of the Day: An Elephant Meets a Sea Lion
In this heartwarming photo we see Chendra, an Asian elephant, meeting Gus, a sea lion at the Oregon Zoo. Chendra met Gus while she was on one of her morning walks around the zoo. Photograph by Michael Durham. Posting by laphmore on Reddit.
Photo of the Day: The Element
Large swell forms after severe storm in Sydney (Cameron Spencer / Getty Images News)
Photo of the Day: Winter in Kraków
Photography by Marcin Ryczek.
Photo of the Day: Devil Ride
Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara set the world record for biggest wave ever ridden back in November 2011, when he tamed a 78-foot monster. McNamara reportedly broke his own record by riding this 100-foot wave on Monday in Nazaré, Portugal.
Photo of the Day: Huddle Up
Two chimpanzees hug each other to keep warm at Qingdao Zoo in Qingdao, Shandong province, Eastern China. (Barcroft)
Photo of the Day: Spider-Man
Sao Doan, 5 years old, watched as her mother took a photo of Merrill Hunt, dressed as Spider-Man, washing windows at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., Thursday. Three window cleaners dressed up for the day. (Cherie Diez/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press)
Photo of the Day: Happy Birthday!
56-year-old Colo celebrates her birthday at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio. Colo is the oldest gorilla in any zoo. (Grahm S. Jones/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium)
Photo of the Day: Frozen
After a cold night, frost covers plants in a field in Forestburgh, N.Y. (Tom Bushey/Times Herald-Record)
Photo of the Day: Pucker Up
Two cheetahs groom each other and appear to be kissing after making a kill in the Masai Mara, Kenya. (Hari Santharam / Barcroft)
National Geographic Photo Contest 2012: A Sneak Peek at the Top Shots
What do double rainbows, baby penguins and “ninja” kangaroos have in common? They’re the focus of some of the best images submitted for the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest. Judges will look at creativity, photographic quality and authenticity of the content across three broad categories: people, places and nature. The magazine will feature the best photographs from each category as well as the $10,000 grand-prize winning shot.
(PHOTO: Lalith Ekanayake/National Geographic Photo Contest)
The progeny, a solitary chick, amidst the adult Great Crested Terns, taken from a prone position, with a wide-angle lens, at a breeding site on a Sri Lankan island off north-western seas. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Hungry
A monkey rests inside in a bowl where food is offered by devotees for birds and monkeys at the Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India. (AP)
Photo of the Day: Playful
A meerkat playing in the foliage at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, where staff have added fallen leaves to the meerkat enclosure. (PA)
Photo of the Day: Autumn is here
One of the best images we’ve seen this morning this this park in Jiuquan, China which shows autumn has truly arrived. (Barcroft)
Photo of the Day: Rather You than Me
Daredevil Mich Kemeter, 23, walks across a tight rope without any safety harness above the 1,000ft of Verdon Gorge. One wrong move could have seen Mich plummet 650ft foot into the Grand Canyon du Verdon in South of France. But the extreme Austrian athlete managed to navigate his way safely across the thin tight rope in just under two minutes. (Barcroft)
Photo of the Day: Like a Bird
A hang glider soars through the air above a chain of mountains in Schiers, Switzerland. (Arno Balzarini/Keystone)
Photo of the Day: Total Recall
Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses his new book, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story,” at the Hamilton in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)
Photo of the Day: Like Father, Like Son
8-year-old Robert Irwin, son of Steve, feeds freshwater crocodiles with Australia Zoo’s Head of Reptiles, Josh Ruffell first time in public. (Getty)
