
By Kris Wilson
Photograph by Michael Pachis, National Geographic Your Shot
The Memphis Zoo houses bald eagles that have been injured too badly to be returned to the wild, writes Your Shot member Michael Pachis. Usually the eagles are perched in their tree watching the visitors. However, this time I noticed one ... hopping on the ground toward a water pool in the aviary. He surprised me by dunking his entire head in the water before coming up shaking.
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Photograph by Jeff Hester, National Geographic Your Shot
Your Shot member Jeff Hester was drawn to make this image because, he says, I believe this is what our oceans should look like. But Cabo Pulmo, a marine park off Mexicos Baja California peninsula, hasn't always been this way. In 1995, [the] park was established by local citizens to counteract depleted reef fishes and marine life due to overfishing, he says. Today, the biomass is booming, and the ecosystem is returning to a healthy state. For this particular image, I wanted to show some scale ... so I had my wife, seen in the foreground, swim ahead of me.
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Neato thing to be announced tomorrow!
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