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Africa Geographic Editorial
Friday, 24 May 2019
Our Photographer of the Year 2019 competition is now closed for entries and we are excited to announce the Finalists! Only one week to go before we announce our winners!
THE FOLLOWING GALLERY OF FINALISTS IS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Scaly-feathered finch chicks in southern Namib Desert, Namibia © Sanet Rossouw A hippo surfaces out of the water at speed in Chobe National Park, Botswana © Deena Sveinsson A young mountain gorilla from the Nkuringo family group waits out the rain shower in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda © Bruce Miller “Pre-dawn with red-billed queleas” in Zakouma National Park, Chad © Michael Lorentz A portrait of a Wodaabe dancer caught by the light of the sun, Chad © Trevor Cole Dust fills the air as wildebeest make their way across the Mara River in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Tania Cholwich A rescued and released black-bellied pangolin in Cameroon © Angelia Young / Tikki Hywood Foundation “This male leopard retrieved his warthog kill from a spotted hyena. Here he is running with the kill away from the hyena towards a tree.” – Kruger National Park, South Africa © Ernest Porter On a hot day an epauletted fruit bat mother lets her young catch a breeze in her open wing to help cool it down, Balule Private Nature Reserve, South Africa © Anna-Carina Nagel “The wolf amongst the sheep” – a painted wolf (African wild dog) with its pack in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Ross Couper A black-backed jackal flies to catch breakfast in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana © Michiel Duvenhage Lion cubs look up at their mother while at a wildebeest kill in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Daniel Koen Sunset illuminates elephants as they roam the Okavango Delta, Botswana © Panos Laskarakis A gelada (also known as a bleeding-heart monkey) yawns in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia © Patrice Quillard Mzee (100) poses with his wife (90) for a portrait in Jinja, Uganda © Bob Ditty A leopard tortoise with a swarm of brown-veined butterflies looking for moisture in Mabuasehube Game Reserve, Botswana © Hubert Janiszewski An Atlantic Portuguese man-o’-war, False Bay, South Africa © Geo Cloete “The Grevy’s zebra illusion” – Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya © Yaron Schmid A white rhino calf refuses to leave its mother after she was darted for a dehorning, South Africa © Hesté de Beer A jumping spider (Hyllus sp.) in a folded leaf in Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa © Eraine van Schalkwyk A lion drags an elephant calf under a tree to feed after it was killed by two lions the previous night, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe © Jens Cullmann An eyed-flower mantis mimics flower petals to give it advantage over potential predators in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa © Tanya Nadauld A leopardess looks towards the tree where she left her kill the night before in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Randall Ball An elephant calf is picked up by its mother after falling into a waterhole in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa © Cornel Eksteen Subscribe to enjoy more galleries like this.
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