1. Baby Elephant
Photo and legend by Julia Cumes , National Geographic Your Shot
" I met this baby elephant while documenting a sister elephant renewal / spillage program in Assam , India . He had lost his mother in a flood . I spent a lot of fourth dimension with him and became quite attached . When I finally had to leave , I grow around one more time to look at the building that domiciliate him and see he had come up on his hind legs and was looking out the window at me . His formulation was so strikingly human in that moment and I saw in his eyes something universal and deeply expressive . "
2. The Cat and the Rat
exposure and caption by Meg Kumin , National Geographic Your Shot
" Perhaps our cat Sonic was just too former , or too faineant to give care about fundamental instinct . Or perhaps , Rosy the Rat was too blind , or too naive to concern about fear . Or perhaps … there are no rules when it comes to love within a family . "
3. What Does the Fox Say?
Photo and caption by E. Sanchez , National Geographic Your Shot
" I am a big buff of foxes and when I had the chance to rescue a female sonny ( she is the second one , the other one is male person ) , I could not reject . In this picture she is about 12 weeks old . She is living in the house and when she will be big enough I will move her to the outdoor cage where the other fox is living . She had three brothers and by now most probably they are not bear a expert time as she has if they are alive at all . I be intimate what most the great unwashed think : she should dwell in the wild . "
4. Cat Carriage
Photo and caption by Juan Fontaine , National Geographic Your Shot
" Cat lover transport his pets through the Hiroshima streets . "
5. Oh, Deer
" In the surroundings of Kyoto you may find the village of Nara . In it , all temples and parks are charge with wild and innocent deer . you may touch and prey them . It ’s awe-inspiring the deference and care masses here have with both animate being and plant .
" In this picture show you may see a chemical group of scholarly person visiting one of the main synagogue in the city sharing with the cervid as if they were another of their classmates . "
6. Holy Cow
picture and caption by Henrik Kaarsholm , National Geographic Your Shot
" suffer a crazy cow in the ruck affects any farmer deeply and even though this husbandman has over 400 head of cows , he can apace tail end which are sick and bring these out for handling — he knows every single one , he enhance every one of them . To calm his cows during intervention , he sits on it . "
7. Bottle-fed Fish
pic and subtitle by StÈphanie Amaudruz , National Geographic Your Shot
" In Asia , it is a common deal to see people fertilize halcyon fishes like we feed in pigeons in Europe — the idea is to create proportionate shapes by throwing food in chosen spots — or to have playfulness . Babybottle Pisces feeding is a popular attraction .
8. A Horse is a Horse
Photo and caption by Byron Inggs , National Geographic Your Shot
" On arrival at Jonathan ’s Lodge in Sehlabathebe National Park , Lesotho , our knight took to celebrating release from their incumbrance . With the backdrop of ' The Devil ’s Knuckles ' and the good afternoon ’s incandescence how could I not take advantage ? Up near using Canon ’s EF 10 - 22 mm wide slant . "
