Shunning light, a pink shrimp buries itself in aquarium sand except for its feelers and golf-ball eyes. To avoid predators, they'll burrow even deeper, leaving only a tiny hole for breathing.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Shrimp Nursery—Science Explores New Ways to Farm the Sea," May 1965, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月12
Mandrill, Central Africa
A mandrill, tethered on a rope in central Africa, reaches for the camera. These colorful primates are threatened. They are often hunted as bushmeat, and many Africans consider them to be a delicacy. Mandrills are feeling the squeeze of spreading agriculture and human settlement—both are shrinking their rain forest homeland.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Clearing,” March 2001, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月13
Fire-Walking Ceremony, Viti Levu Island, Republic of Fiji
The body is transcended and the soul is made pure by mortification of the flesh—including piercings with these needles—in the annual Hindu fire-walking ceremony on Viti Levu Island in Fiji. Fire walkers prepare with fasting, prayer, and bathing in the ocean. At their temple, they may walk over hot coals several times in thanks for blessings of health and long life from the fire goddess Draupathi.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Two Worlds of Fiji,” October 1995, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月14
Oil Refinery, Ras Tanurah, Saudi Arabia
Gas flares fire the night at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanurah refinery, north of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Each day sparkling towers here produce more than half a million barrels of refined petroleum, the largest output of any refinery in the Middle East.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Saudi Arabia—Beyond the Sands of Mecca," January 1966, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月15
Lion in Tree, Zambezi River, Zambia
A female lion claims her spot in a tree near the Zambezi River in Zambia. Female lions are the primary hunters in each family group, or pride. They often work together to prey upon antelopes, zebras, wildebeests, and other large animals of the open grasslands. Many of these animals are faster than lions, so teamwork pays off.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi,” October 1997, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月16
Synchronized Swimmers, Laguna Hills, California
Submerged ballerinas rehearse for their annual show at Leisure World in Laguna Hills, California. Activities like line dancing, lawn bowling, and computer classes make retirement communities increasingly popular among people with decades of free time to fill.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Aging—New Answers to Old Questions,” November 1997, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月17
Fishermen at Night, Micronesia
Fiery torches of palm fronds light up the night near the Caroline Islands as men in outrigger canoes wait with long-handled nets to scoop flying fish in midair. The jumping fish are attracted by light.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Micronesia—The Americanization of Eden," May 1967, National Geographic magazine)
Stately American bison graze beneath gold-lined clouds in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. Established in 1905, the refuge now shelters roughly 600 bison. Excess animals are sold live at public auction every October.
(Photo shot on assignment for the National Geographic book The Great Southwest, 1980)
09年1月19
Bubble Eye Goldfish, United States
The extraordinary bubble eye wears marble-size, fluid-filled eye sacs like water wings. The breed is only one in a gallery of bizarre variations of the common goldfish. Developed over ten centuries by Asian breeders, this living art of the East today attracts growing numbers of Western aquarists.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Those Outlandish Goldfish!" April 1973, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月20
Dock and Palm Trees, Tahiti
A dock juts out to a small palm island, surrounded by the jewel-blue waters of Tahiti. Tahiti is just one of 118 islands and atolls that make up French Polynesia, a semi-autonomous territory of France. With its claim here and on other Pacific territories, France is the second largest presence (after the United States) in the Pacific.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Charting a New Course—French Polynesia,” June 1997, National Geographic magazine)
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