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Africa Geographic Editorial
Friday, 17 May 2019
Our Photographer of the Year 2019 competition is ow closed for entries and we are excited to announce the Semi-finalists! Only two weeks to go before we announce our winners!To see the other gallery click here: Semi-finalists Gallery 2 no particular order .
A black-backed jackal flies to catch breakfast in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Michiel Duvenhage Portrait of a spotted hyena, Kruger National Park, South Africa © Ian Ground Sunset illuminates elephants as they roam the Okavango Delta, Botswana © Panos Laskarakis A portrait of a Wodaabe dancer caught by the light of the sun, Chad © Trevor Cole “Watching me, watching you” – Okavango Delta, Botswana © Clare Doolan A hippo surfaces out of the water at speed in Chobe National Park, Botswana © Deena Sveinsson “A moment of thought” – Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda © Dalida Innes A rescued and released black-bellied pangolin in Cameroon © Angelia Young / Tikki Hywood Foundation Juvenile Cape foxes suckle on their mother in Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa © Hesté de Beer A jumping spider (Hyllus sp.) in a folded leaf in Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa © Eraine van Schalkwyk “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 goshawk takes off with a meerkat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Prof. Gert Lamprecht “Master of camouflage” – a puff adder in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Theo Busschau A gelada (also known as a bleeding-heart monkey) yawns in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia © Patrice Quillard A muddy rhino in a reserve in South Africa © Kevin Dooley Lion cubs look up at their mother while at a wildebeest kill in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Daniel Koen Fishermen at sunrise on the Chobe River, Chobe, Botswana © Johan Van Rensburg 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 Scaly-feathered finch chicks in the southern Namib Desert, Namibia © Sanet Rossouw An eyed-flower mantis mimics flower petals to give it advantage over potential predators in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa © Tanya Nadauld “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 An Atlantic Portuguese man-o’-war, False Bay, South Africa © Geo Cloete Salt caravans begin their westward journey after sunset in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia © Hesté de Beer ALSO IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
GALLERY To see the other gallery click here: Semi-finalists Gallery 2
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