Photograph by Thomas P. Peschak ,National Geographic Creative
A kinkajou, with pollen-dusted cheek, feeds on nectar from an Ochroma blossom in Panama.
Photograph by Christian Ziegler, National Geographic Creative
A hippo feeds on land near dead tree island in Moremi preserve, outside of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Photograph by Cory Richards, National Geographic Creative
Divers hold lights to illuminate sharks as they hunt for groupers hiding in the reef.
Photograph by Laurent Ballesta, National Geographic Creative
A remote camera captures a Sumatran tiger while hunting in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic Creative
Fireflies in flight in the forest at Santa Clara Sanctuary in Mexico.
Photograph by Kirsten Luce ,National Geographic Creative
An adult male lion, nicknamed C-Boy, feasts on a zebra in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic Creative
A female grey fox explores the forest at night in Texas, USA.
Photograph by Karine Aigner, National Geographic Creative
A mountain hare in snow at night in Norway.
Photograph by Erlend Haarberg, National Geographic Creative
A remote camera captures a bull elk during migration in Wyoming, USA.
Photograph by Joe Riis, National Geographic Creative
A remote camera captures a snow leopard in the falling snow in Hemis National Park, India.
Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic Creative
As darkness falls on Guassa, geladas break into a run down a slope toward their sleeping cliffs in Ethiopia. They will spend the night perched on narrow rocky ledges, trying to stay safe from leopards, hyenas, and feral dogs.
Photograph by Jeffrey Kerby and Trevor Beck Frost, National Geographic Creative
A coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial arthropod, with a leg span of three feet, in Aldabra, Seychelles Islands. Aldabra has one of the last healthy populations of coconut crabs in the western Indian Ocean. Elsewhere, the world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, with a leg span of three feet, has been eaten to extinction by humans.
Photograph by Thomas P. Peschak, National Geographic Creative
An African lion, illuminated with a spotlight, wakes up in a tree in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.
Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Creative
Hollywood’s most reclusive star, cougar P22 was first seen in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, USA, almost two years ago. A radio collar tracks his moves, but residents see scant sign of him.
Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic Creative
Ruppell's Griffon vultures and African whitebacked vultures fight over dead zebra in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
More vultures will likely join the banquet. They can strip a carcass clean in minutes.
Photograph by Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic Creative
A remote camera captures a prowling cougar on Everett's Ridge in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.
Photograph by Drew Rush, National Geographic Creative
A full moon rises above a female cassowary at Etty Bay, Australia.
Photograph by Christian Ziegler, National Geographic Creative
A beaver at Schwabacher Landing in Grand Teton National Park, USA.
Photograph by Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic Creative
Three white-tailed deer flee in this earliest night-time flash photograph taken in Michigan, date unknown.
Photograph by George Shiras, National Geographic Creative
A leopard prowls through a thornbush in Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic Creative
Yellow-footed gulls fly at night over the San Ignacio Lagoon in Mexico.
Photograph by Ronan Donovan, National Geographic Creative
A lion pride on the prowl in the short grass plains in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic Creative
A camera trap near Yellowstone National Park catches a grizzly bear stealing whitebark pine nuts from a squirrel's cache. The nuts are an important food for the bears, a threatened species.
Photograph by Drew Rush, National Geographic Creative
Lit by a camera-trap flash and the glow of urban Mumbai, a leopard prowls the edge of India's Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic Creative
An elephant matriarch sleeping among her family in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic Creative