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Suzi Eszterhas

Taking pictures at eye level provides kids an amazing perspective for their photographs, like this one of a resting cheetah mum and cub in Kenya.

Patience to wait for just the right shot can help young photographers capture images like this sea otter and her newborn pup in Monterey, California.

Malayan Pangolin climbing, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.

A sea otter pup, just three days old, floats atop its mother in Monterey Bay, California. But while life looks easy for this youngster, a mother otter has little time to unwind. “For the first month, its total attachment parenting,” Verdolin says. The mom basically doesn’t get to eat or do anything—they hold their baby otter all the time.” As a single parent, an otter mom also faces a dilemma—she has to eat to boost her milk supply, but her baby can’t yet swim. Her ingenious solution? Wrapping the pup in seaweed, where it can float without drifting while the parent forages. “This is pretty tricky, and it can be dangerous for the baby,” Verdolin says. “But they are on their own.”

An 11-week-old spotted hyena cub sits on its mother in Masai Mara National Reserve. Due to hyenas' ability to crush and digest bones, their milk is very high in calcium.

A female great curassow sports her wavy black head feathers on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula.

Honey badgers, like this one in Masai Mara, are not actually badgers, but badger relatives.

The Asian small-clawed otter has become a popular pet in Southeast Asia. People in Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, and elsewhere can pay thousands of pounds to own one.