Inside the animal kingdom: Stunning pictures from National
Geographic photo community celebrating the furry, scaly and feathered critters
we love the most
An old cat giving a piggyback
ride to a rat; a baby elephant casting a forlorn glance at a departing
two-legged friend, and a man feeding goldfish from a baby bottle.
Those are
only a few of the extraordinary images that photographers from around the world
have shared with National
Geographic’s Your Shot community as part of an ongoing photo assignment titled
The Animals We Love.
Meg Kumin,
a member of the National Geographic, Your Shot community, captured an amazing
shot of her cat named Sonic with Rosy the Rat on its back.
'Perhaps
Sonic was just too old, or too lazy to care about primal instinct,' she writes.
'Or perhaps, Rosy the Rat was too blind, or too naive to worry about fear. Or
perhaps... there are no rules when it comes to love within a family.'
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Odd couple: Meg Kumin, member of
the National Geographic, Your Shot community, captured this amazing shot of
Sonic the cat giving a piggyback ride to Rosy the Rat. Perhaps Sonic was just
too old, or too lazy to care about primal instinct. Or perhaps, Rosy the Rat
was too blind, or too naive to worry about fear. Or perhaps... there are no
rules when it comes to love within a family.
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Hare and no hair: Margherita
Vitagliano, a member of the National Geographic, Your Shot community, came upon
a man named Antonio with his pet rabbit perched on his shoulder
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Trunk show: Julia Cumes met this
baby elephant while documenting a baby elephant rehabilitation and release
program in Assam, India. He had lost his mother in a flood
Besides
cats and cute rodents, rabbits also can make great companions, as Margherita Vitagliano showed
with her photo depicting a man named Antonio lovingly looking at a grey bunny
perched on his shoulder.
Julia Cumes came
across a baby elephant that had lost his mother in a flood while documenting a
rehabilitation and release program in Assam, India.
Cumes
spent a lot of time getting to know the orphaned elephant. When it was time for
her to leave, the photographer turned around to take one last look at her
friend and found him standing on his hind legs and peering out the window at
her.
She
writes: 'His expression was so strikingly human in that moment and I saw in his
eyes something universal and profoundly expressive.'
People’s
attitude towards various animals is often dictated by local customs.
While in
European cities people are used to throwing breadcrumbs for pigeons,
photographer StÈphanie Amaudruz writes
that in Asia, it is a common sight to see people feed goldfish, often from a
baby bottle. The idea is to create harmonious shapes by throwing food in
selected spots.
For
photographer E. Sanchez,
foxes make the best of pets. When he was presented with the opportunity to
rescue a pair of cubs, he did not hesitate. The younger of the baby foxes, a
female, has been living in his home.
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Old and wise: B. Yen wrote of
this sad pooch named Milo that he doesn't bark much, he just likes staring at
you like Robert De Niro
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Light as a feather: Cletus Nelson
Nwadike and his brother found this wounded bird in their garden. The gave him
water and bread, but the bird died anyway.
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Out for a stroll: Juan Fontaine
came upon this extraordinary cat lover pushing a stroller filled with his furry
friends through the streets of Hiroshima, Japan
He plans
to transfer his notoriously sneaky pet to an outdoor cage when she matures a
little.
While some
people gravitate towards more exotic critters, others love nothing more than to
pamper their cats and dogs.
While
staying in Hiroshima, Japan, Juan Fontaine ran
into a man so devoted to his brood of well-groomed kitties that he took them
out for a stroll in a baby carriage.
More...
While
animals may not be sentient beings, they can still teach us a how to be gentler
and kinder people, be it a small dying bird, like the one being cradled in a
poignant black-and-white photo taken by Cletus Nelson Nwadike,
or an old dog named Milo, whose sad stare B. Yen has
aptly compared to that of Robert de Niro.
The
Animals We Love photo assignment, curated by Robin Schwartz for National
Geographic’s Your Shot, ends June 23. So far, the community has received nearly
15,000 submissions.
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Fish feeding frenzy: Photographer
StÈphanie Amaudruz writes that in Asia, it is a common sight to see people feed
goldfish like Europeans feed pigeons - the idea is to create harmonious shapes
by throwing food in selected spots
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Fantastic Ms Fox: Photographer E.
Sanchez rescued this female fox cub, pictured here at 12 weeks old
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