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Rare Rhino Takes Amazing Air Journey

Black rhino being transported by helicopter to an awaiting land vehicle. The helicopter trip lasts less than 10 minutes and enables a darted rhino to be removed from difficult and dangerous terrain. The sleeping animals suffer no ill effect.

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Reed Flute Cave, Guilin, Guangxi, China

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The Forest Deer by Randall Epp

The Forest Deer by Randall Epp

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Mount Roraima rising from mist on the border between Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana.

Mount Roraima rising from mist on the border between Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana.

The Azure Window - Soon to be the Azure Pinnacle

The Azure Window - Soon to be the Azure Pinnacle

The Ancient Tradition of Fishing with Cormorants

Sitting quietly on a bamboo raft, with his birds at his side, the man listens to the gentle splashing as water laps at the side of his craft. The light of a flaming lantern illuminates the scene - in Guilin, in the Chinese province of Guangxi.

Cormorant fishing is an age-old art practiced in China and Japan (as well as a few other countries) that is long past its glory days. Today, it exists largely due to thetourism industry, but is no less intriguing for that fact.

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Mount Nemrut - Home to Gods Beheaded

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The heaviest map ever?

The heaviest map ever?

10 Awe-Ispiring Images of the Moon

10 Awe-Ispiring Images of the Moon