国家地理杂志图片

Valley of the Kings, Egypt

Spatsizi Park, Canada  1981


Moonglow bathes a caribou rack and skull in Spatsizi Park. Because Canada’’s thousands of caribou shed their horns each year, the north seems to sprout abandoned antlers everywhere. The attached partial skull indicates this animal lost its life—perhaps to old age, disease, or a predatory grizzly.

Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh State, India  1997


Tigers do not ’’roam’’ the forest as romantic writers like to have them do&#59; instead they doggedly work carefully delineated territories, on the lookout for their next meal—and on alert for any other predator that threatens access to it.

it is very sorry if the tigers do not roam in the forest

Near Belcegiz, Turkey  1986


Child of a nomadic family, Süleyman Önal carries a name legendary in Turkey, homeland of the great Ottoman ruler, Süleyman the Magnificent.

St.-Rémy-
de-Provence, France  1995

Soaring to safety, a white-clad razeteur dodges the horns of a charging bull—and thrills spectators at a bullfight in St.-Rémy-de-Provence. Unarmed except for a small rakelike tool, razeteurs win glory by hooking a rosette from the horns. These small, half-wild Provençal bulls, revered in the Camargue region, aren’’t hurt during the contest, but the men who ’’fight’’ them pay dearly if they’’re slow to vault the bullring wall. ’’The nearer the horns,’’ explains one fan, ’’the higher the leap.’’

Iran（伊朗）  1969


[A] tiny Iranian toddler sips the juice of a melon steadied by her mother.

Mozambique, Africa  2000


Pastel flamingos flock over the plush green of Mozambique’’s coastal mangrove swamps.

Tolga, Russia  1993

After decades of repression, religion flowered again in post-Soviet Russia. The Tolga Convent is just one symbol of a rejuvenated Russian Orthodox Church.

Mount St. Helens, Washington  1997


Danger lurks in the Cascades, the volcanic range that bristles between northern California and British Columbia. Many peaks are steaming and could erupt like Washington’’s Mount St. Helens, where visitors compare the cone with a photograph taken before its 1980 blowout.

Saqqara, Egypt 1998


The Step Pyramid complex [behind camel] was enclosed by a 30-foot [10-meter] wall and included courtyards, temples, and chapels covering nearly 40 acres [16 hectares]—the size of a large town in the third millennium B.C.

Israel  1984

Love bite? ^_^ A dromedary camel chews on another’’s ear.