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A baby elephant takes a sand bath in Zambia in this image published in May 1996. At birth, elephants already weigh some 200 pounds and stand about three feet tall.
A bull elephant walks through Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater in a photograph taken by Chris Johns, who was editor in chief of National Geographic magazine from 2005 to 2014. Johns’s photography of elephants in Ngorongoro ‘‘helped me realize what I intuitively knew already: There is so much more to their personality than we imagine,’‘ he later wrote. This image was published in October 2009.
Men pole canoes through the swamps of Everglades National Park, Florida. The canoes are modelled off of those of the Seminole, a group indigenous to Florida.
The cover story of the December 1999 issue was all about cheetahs and the threats they face to their habitats. In this close-up of a cub in Botswana's Okavango Delta, you can see blood on his muzzle, left over from his last meal.
A lion walks into the gritty wind in Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa. The park is one of the largest lion strongholds on the African continent, and works to protect lions from poachers.
In Chobe National Park, Botswana, an elephant gives himself a dust bath. The dust will keep him cool as well as keep parasites and insects at bay.
The November 1995 issue featured a 16-page story titled "In Praise of Squirrels." In this picture, a visitor to the White House gardens dashes off with a peanut meant to deter him from eating flower bulbs.
An African jacana rests on the head of a hippo in the Zambezi River. From this perch, the jacana will pick insects off the river's floating vegetation.
Nile crocodiles are the largest crocodilians in Africa, sometimes reaching 20 feet (6 meters) long.
An African jacana rests on the head of a hippo in the Zambezi River. From this perch, the jacana will pick insects off the river's floating vegetation.