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  • Researchers measure head of brown bear collecting data on bears.
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  • A brown bear swims with his head underwater as he fishes for salmon in Kuril Lake.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are <br />
among the purest in the world.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are among the purest in the world.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.
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  • Head lowered and ears laid back in an aggressive posture, a stallion is "herding" or "snaking" or to control his mare and foal. The white mustang is also sending a warning to others. Wild stallions protect their families and this behavior is in reaction to a threat to his band.
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  • Portrait of a wild horse in the snow-covered Ochoco National Forest in the Big Summit Wild Horse Territory in Oregon. The origins of the herd are not entirely clear according to the U.SD. Forest Service. Early accounts describe local ranchers in the 1920s turning loose quality animals from a good breeding stock to ensure a future supply of good horses. Recent genetic testing has linked the Ochoco Mustangs to Iberian and Andalusian stock, leaving much to be discovered about their true heritage.
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  • Two mustangs groom each other, a common social behavior among wild horses. The mutual grooming brings heads together and reaffirms bonding between horses, reducing social tension within a herd.
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  • A bachelor band of wild horses put their heads together to share a good source of food. Males without mares or family create their own bands with other single males.
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  • Black bear shakes water off head and feeds on salmon in Anan Creek.
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  • A Tiger head light on the outside of the Comerica Park building.
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  • A female camel gently touches her owner.
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  • A blue-eyed Palomino mare approaches for a closer look. The U.S. government released Thoroughbred horses at Nevada’s Sheldon range to mix with the Standardbred bloodlines making a bigger, faster “war horse.” During World War I and II, horses were rounded up from Sheldon, loaded onto railroad cars and taken to the East Coast where they were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Horses that survived the journey had a bit placed in their mouths and began to pull artillery or serve as a cavalry mount. A shipment of 500 horses left every day and a half to supply American and Allied troops.  Nearly eight million horses died in World War I alone. <br />
Remnants of the “war horse” herds roamed free until they were totally removed from the Sheldon National Wildlife Range.
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  • A blue-eyed mustang mare is a descendant of horses bred in the Nevada's Sheldon Range. The horses were used as mounts for cavalry, and in later years, shipped to Europe to serve as war horses during WWI and WWII.
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  • A Palomino mustang mare with a blue eye has distinctive, unusual coloration.
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  • A bachelor band of wild horses stick together to face into the wind picking up scents. Older studs join younger ones forming a family when none have mares or are accepted into another group.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • Profile of a curious, young, fuzzy mustang foal.<br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. They typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age, however, and evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • Portrait of a young, gentle-natured wild yearling scratching his neck on a tree limb. Ears pointed forward indicate the curious young horse shows little fear when approached in a slow, calm manner.
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  • A curious baby camel.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in icy waters of Kuril Lake. Kamchatka has the highest density of brown bears, also known as grizzly bears, in the world. There are almost 15,000 on the Russian peninsula.
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  • A crocodile in water.
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  • A blue eyed rescued feral cat.
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  • Wild horses stand opposite ways to flick flies off each others faces with their tails.
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  • A curious baby camel.
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  • An adult axis deer is naturally spotted.
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  • Lake Turkana holds the world's largest crocodile colony.
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  • Lake Turkana holds the world's largest crocodile colony.
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  • Lake Turkana holds the world's largest crocodile colony.
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  • Lake Turkana holds the world's largest crocodile colony.
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  • Lake Turkana holds the world's largest crocodile colony.
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  • A lioness in the savannah.
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  • A camel gently touches its owner.
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  • Researcher takes sample from mouth of brown bear for data collection.
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  • Juvenile black bear in Tongass National Forest.
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  • A photographer petting a cow in Switzerland's Oberalpen Pass.
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  • An iguana at a reptile show.
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  • A horse with bald face marking.
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  • A camel is gently touched by its handler.
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  • A camel is gently touched by its handler.
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  • Camels are kept clean in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • A curious camel.
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  • Camels are decorated with tassels for a camel beauty contest.
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  • Senevisa fish processing plant in Dakar processes cuttlefish brought in from artisanal fishermen. The local market consumes only three percent of the production of this plant.<br />
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Artesianal fishermen sell products like octopus, squid and cuttlefish. The prime fish and cuttlefish leave this plant in Styrofoam fresh packs at 5pm in Dakar and are at the Paris Orly airport at 6am.<br />
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Fish follows the money – If the Japanese pay the most for cuttlefish then it is shipped there overnight. Senevisa is the largest trawler/fish exporter working out of Senegal.
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  • Buffalo flies cover a herd of cattle.
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  • A black bear (Ursus americanus) shakes water from his head while feeding on salmon in Anan Creek and hour from Wrangell.  Bears fatten up during the heavy run of fish that spawn in the summer.
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  • Randy Olson gets covered with blood after a Dassenech warrior stomps in a pool of blood from animal sacrifice while Randy is lying on the ground next to said pool of blood trying to take a low level photo.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry fish heads. They salvage waste from fish factories.<br />
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The Icelandic "hardfiskur" or dried fish has been very popular with Icelanders throughout the centuries. Providing Icelanders with a healthy snack that's full of protein and nutrients. The Icelandic fishing grounds are also without a doubt among the purest in the world.
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  • Huastec Indian seller and an indigenous woman haggle over the price of a pig at the local outdoor market held every Sunday morning in Ciudad Valles.
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  • Przewalski horses descend from 13 that were captured around 1900.
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  • A young girl gives big hugs to a beloved, recently adopted mustang.
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  • A wild horse scans the horizon on public lands watching for threats to the herd.
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  • Flies on an Masai infant and his mother.
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  • Two gray stallions put their heads together to smell a territorial marking. Although it may look friendly, the mustangs are exhibiting behavior typical in a wild horse herd when studs are vying for dominance. At this point, they may fight or walk away to battle another time.
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  • A wild stallion lowers his head and "snakes" to move his band through the high desert.
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  • Hamar head to market day on a dirt road to Kaifur.
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  • A boy bounces a soccer ball of his head while playing on a field near a large statue of a man with two horses.
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  • A boy bounces a soccer ball of his head while playing on a field near a large statue of a man with two horses.
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  • Bracelet of gold adorned with ram's heads from the fifth century B.C.
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  • Dairy cows stand in water holes to drink in the Suwannee basin in Florida. Concentrated dairy cow operations contribute high nitrate into the aquifer that has karst soil and nearby clear water springs. Waste from a total of 44,000 head of cattle helped ruin a thriving oyster industry in the town of Suwannee, downstream situated on the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • A foal stands out in the herd as mustangs head down a dusty trail to a waterhole. Wild horse herds have a distinct social order and as with other animals that live in large groups, establishment of a stable hierarchical system reduces aggression. A lead or “alpha” mare guides the herd to food and water while stallions follow behind protecting their bands from predators and threats.
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  • A herd of colorful mustangs including Paints and Palominos graze through sagebrush as evening approaches. After stopping at the waterhole, they headed toward salt licks and to roll taking dust baths in Oregon's high desert.
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  • A Native Alaskan family crosses a stream while hiking with their dog through the woods. They are headed back to their fish camp on Lisianski Peninsula on the west coast of Baranof Island.
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  • Grackles gather on a center-pivot sprinkler to feed on a newly harvested cotton field.<br />
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A half mile long center pivot has a well head at the center and rotates in a circle. Pivots were developed after WWII and allowed this area to recover from the dust bowl.
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  • David Colson and a crew load up a boat with nets and gear for mullet fish in the Gulf of Mexico. His family and dog watch him head to for the evening where they fish at night.
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  • Cowboys from central Utah wait for a signal to begin branding young calves and an errant dog finds his way back to safety. Separated when they were moving cattle, the dog jumped up into the saddle upon seeing his owner. The ranch is surrounded by federal land of the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Canyonlands National Park with spectacular views or the orange walls surrounding Indian Creek.
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  • A woman admires fluorescent jellyfish in the lobby of Hotel Victor.
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  • Chilean cowboys in traditional Andalusian sombreros watch as huasos wearing colorful ponchos line up their horses under a flag in the ring. They are competing in a rodeo in ranch country north of Santiago by pinning a steer and trying to beat the clock.
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  • The Nyangatom agricultural village of Lokulan .
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  • A hunter near Mohenjo Caro, Pakistan, uses an egret headdress as a decoy to stalk birds on the Indus River.
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  • Turkana camel herders bring camels to water on Lake Turkana outside Elyse Springs.
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  • A fisherman with his catch in Lake Turkana.
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