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http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/fox-cacti-desert-sartore.html

Desert Wildlife, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2003
Photograph by Joel Sartore

Birds perch on a cactus as a gray fox warily stands below in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Rain rarely falls on the Atacama’s coastline, but dense fog known as camanchaca is abundant. The fog nourishes plant communities from cactuses to ferns.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Driest Place on Earth,” August 2003, National Geographic magazine)

译文:

沙漠里的野生动植物,阿塔卡马沙漠,智利,2003
摄影:Joel Sartore

智利阿塔卡马沙漠里，鸟栖停在仙人掌上，一只灰狐警惕地站在下面。阿塔卡马的海岸线上降雨非常稀少，但浓湿雾却非常丰富。雾水滋养着这里从仙人掌到蕨类所有的植被。

(照片来源于《地球上最干燥的地方》(2003年8月,国家地理杂志)未发表部分)