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Africa Geographic Editorial
Friday, 05 April 2019
Our Photographer of the Year 2019 is now in full swing and there is only a month left to go before entries close!To see the other three galleries for this week’s selection click here: Weekly Selection Gallery 1 , Weekly Selection Gallery 2 and Weekly Selection Gallery 3 .
Portrait of Babuku, a young Suri boy, surrounded by the bracelets of his mother and the women of his clan in Turgit, Ethiopia © Inger Vandyke “Although this water monitor is pretty harmless, the lioness with her very young cubs is overprotective and charges at the reptile” – Moremi Game Reserve © Fred von Winckelmann Brilliant colours of an African jewel bug revealed in macro detail, Watamu, Kenya © Steve Holroyd An elephant calf in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Patrice Quillard “Future generations” – reaching out to give children a hand in a Maasai village, Tanzania © Caleb Shepard A lion in the early morning in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Carol Barry A stunning sunset over Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Grace Wangui An Ethiopian wolf with an Abyssinian grass rat in the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia © Hesté de Beer A baby meerkat and a fly, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa © Prelena Soma Owen “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 A young rinkhals (also known as the ring-necked spitting cobra) plays dead in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa © Tyrone Ping Greater and lesser flamingos mingle and jostle for space as they vigorously suck algae and microscopic organisms from the mud flats in Walvis Bay, Namibia © Jane Wynyard A lion matriarch with a blind eye enjoys some attention from another in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Gideon Malherbe A serval with a white stork in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Patrice Quillard Two lion cubs have a field day eating a kudu carcass without any disturbance while the rest of the pride relaxes after having gorged themselves, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya © Ruzdi Ekenheim (Instagram/ruek66) A farmer attends Sunday service in a rock-hewn church in Lalibela, Ethiopia © Hesté de Beer A young lion – the only male in a pride of 15 – peers over the long grass in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Karen Blackwood An extremely well camouflaged satanic leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) hangs amongst the leaves in Madagascar © Steve Pressman A young hyena rests in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Lynne Wilde Four lion cub siblings take shelter under a Mashatu tree in Mashatu Game Reserve, Botswana © Prelena Soma Owen “The gang” – young baboons watch the photographer with interest in Kruger National Park, South Africa © Gabriella Kiss “Bonded for life” – lion cubs share a tender moment in Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia © Edward Rogowski Up close with a leopardess in Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa © Michael Raddall ALSO IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
GALLERIES To see the other three galleries for this week’s selection click here: Weekly Selection Gallery 1 , Weekly Selection Gallery 2 and Weekly Selection Gallery 3 .
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