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| Milky Way over Tioga Lake, Yosemite National Park. Image ID: 28521 Location: Tioga Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Half Dome reflected in the Merced River. Image ID: 28692 Location: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | El Capitan and clouds lit by full moon, stars, evening. Image ID: 28695 Location: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Yosemite Valley and stars lit by full moon, evening. Image ID: 28697 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Nazca booby in flight. Image ID: 16681 Species: Nazca booby, Sula granti Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Upper Yosemite Falls and lunar rainbow, moonbow. A lunar rainbow (moonbow) can be seen to the left of Yosemite Falls, where the moon illuminates the spray of the falls. Image ID: 27751 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Hiker views Vogelsang Lake, and Vogelsang Peak (11516') at sunrise in Yosemite's High Sierra. Image ID: 23201 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Giant redwood, Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood National Park. The coastal redwood, or simply 'redwood', is the tallest tree on Earth, reaching a height of 379' and living 3500 years or more. It is native to coastal California and the southwestern corner of Oregon within the United States, but most concentrated in Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California, found close to the coast where moisture and soil conditions can support its unique size and growth requirements. Image ID: 25795 Species: Coast redwood, giant redwood, California redwood, Sequoia sempervirens Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA | Bridalveil Falls at sunset, with clouds and blue sky in the background. Bridalveil Falls in Yosemite drops 620 feet (188 m) from a hanging valley to the floor of Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 12646 Location: Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| The bisons massive head is its most characteristic feature. Its forehead bulges because of its convex-shaped frontal bone. Its shoulder hump, dwindling bowlike to the haunches, is supported by unusually long spinal vertebrae. Over powerful neck and shoulder muscles grows a great shaggy coat of curly brown fur, and over the head, like an immense hood, grows a shock of black hair. Its forequarters are higher and much heavier than its haunches. A mature bull stands about 6 1/2 feet (2 meters) at the shoulder and weighs more than 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). The bisons horns are short and black. In the male they are thick at the base and taper abruptly to sharp points as they curve outward and upward; the females horns are more slender. Image ID: 13120 Species: American bison, Bison bison Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Fly fishing below Gibbon Falls. This flyfisherman hiked up the Gibbon River to reach the foot of Gibbon Falls. Image ID: 13269 Location: Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | A rainbow appears in the spray of Riverside Geyser as it erupts over the Firehole River. Riverside is a very predictable geyser. Its eruptions last 30 minutes, reach heights of 75 feet and are usually spaced about 6 hours apart. Upper Geyser Basin. Image ID: 13367 Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| Upper Yosemite Falls near peak flow in spring. Yosemite Falls, at 2425 feet tall (730m) is the tallest waterfall in North America and fifth tallest in the world. Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16066 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Nevada Falls marks where the Merced River plummets almost 600 through a joint in the Little Yosemite Valley, shooting out from a sheer granite cliff and then down to a boulder pile far below. Image ID: 16114 Location: Nevada Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Yosemite Falls is reflected in a springtime pool in flooded Cooks Meadow, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16135 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from the Swinging Bridge. The 2425 falls is the tallest in North America. Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16143 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Bridalveil Falls with a rainbow forming in its spray, dropping 620 into Yosemite Valley, displaying peak water flow in spring months from deep snowpack and warm weather melt. Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16160 Location: Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Male elk bugling during the fall rut. Large male elk are known as bulls. Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Male elk engage in competitive mating behaviors during the rut, including posturing, antler wrestling and bugling, a loud series of screams which is intended to establish dominance over other males and attract females. Image ID: 19697 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Madison River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| Male elk bugling during the fall rut. Large male elk are known as bulls. Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Male elk engage in competitive mating behaviors during the rut, including posturing, antler wrestling and bugling, a loud series of screams which is intended to establish dominance over other males and attract females. Image ID: 19698 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Elk, bull elk, adult male elk with large set of antlers. By September, this bull elk's antlers have reached their full size and the velvet has fallen off. This bull elk has sparred with other bulls for access to herds of females in estrous and ready to mate. Image ID: 19721 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Grizzly bear, autumn, fall, brown grasses. Image ID: 19614 Species: Grizzly bear, Ursus arctos horribilis Location: Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| A male moose, bull moose, on snow covered field, near Cooke City. Image ID: 19680 Species: Moose, Alces alces Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Galapagos sea lion playing with puffer fish. Image ID: 02252 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Cousins, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Gray whales, two males both with extended penis during courtship socialization, Laguna San Ignacio. Image ID: 06431 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico |
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| El Capitan and Merced River, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 05413 Location: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Roosevelt elk, adult bull male with large antlers. This bull elk has recently shed the velvet that covers its antlers. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler, which is itself shed after each mating season. Roosevelt elk grow to 10' and 1300 lb, eating grasses, sedges and various berries, inhabiting the coastal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Image ID: 25890 Species: Roosevelt elk, Cervus canadensis roosevelti Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA | Yosemite Valley and stars lit by full moon, evening. Image ID: 28702 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Roosevelt elk, adult bull male with large antlers. This bull elk has recently shed the velvet that covers its antlers. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler, which is itself shed after each mating season. Roosevelt elk grow to 10' and 1300 lb, eating grasses, sedges and various berries, inhabiting the coastal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Image ID: 25878 Species: Roosevelt elk, Cervus canadensis roosevelti Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA | Half Dome at sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point. Image ID: 27737 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Yosemite Falls reflected in a meadow pool, spring. Image ID: 27745 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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