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Elephant Seal Mother and Pup

Photograph by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott

This Month in Photo of the Day: Animals

An elephant seal mother and pup nuzzle to learn each other’s smell. Before weaning at about three weeks, the 90-pound (40-kilogram) newborn could triple its weight, while the nursing mother may lose a third.

See more photographs from the November 2008 feature story "Shore Leave."

译文：

象海豹母子

摄影：Yva Momatiuk、John Eastcott

本月每日一图的主题是：动物

一对象海豹母子用鼻子相互摩挲着，来记住彼此的气味。在约三周大断奶时，出生时90磅（40公斤）重的象海豹幼仔体重可以增加两倍，而它妈妈则会比原来轻1/3。

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Samburu Elephants, Kenya

Photograph by Michael Nichols

Saturn, an elderly mother herself, cares for two calves orphaned by the deaths of their mothers, who were her adult daughters. The extended family structure helps groups cope with such losses. At sunset along a river channel Saturn oversees the play of her own two calves and the orphans. From her behavior alone, uniformly doting, you couldn’t know which was which.

See more photographs from the September 2008 feature story "The Elephants of Samburu."

译文：

Samburu的大象，肯尼亚

摄影：Michael Nichols

这头叫Saturn的老母象，替它死去的女儿照顾着两头成为孤儿的小象。这种庞大的家庭结构，有助于妥善解决这类成员死亡带来的问题。黄昏的河道边，Saturn照看着它自己的两个幼仔和孤儿们玩耍。单从它的行为上，完全一致的关爱，使你无法区分出谁是亲生，谁是收养的。

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Nudibranch

Photograph by David Doubilet

This Month in Photo of the Day: Animals

Members of the gastropod class, finger-size nudibranchs live fully exposed, their gills forming tufts on their backs. (Nudibranch means "naked gill," a feature that separates them from other sea slugs.).

See more photographs from the June 2008 feature story "Living Color."

译文：

海兔

摄影：David Doubilet

本月每日一图的主题是：动物

手指般大小、背上长着一簇鳃的腹足纲动物海兔过着毫无蔽护的生活。（Nudibranch意为“裸露的鳃”，是它们区别于其它海蛞蝓的特征之一。）

把2月份拍的一堆散片整理了一下，拍了50张勉强出了6张。几乎全部是夜拍，对消费级长焦机来说果然是场灾难，噪点惨不忍睹。长虹说大噪点也是艺术，估计是说行为艺术吧。还有好些开了包围曝光准备回来做HDR的片子，本来噪点不是很明显，合成之后就完全没法看了，悲剧啊……我要D90！我要大光圈！>_<

唯一满意点的就是这张在亲戚家小区里拍的滑梯，也是唯一一组白天拍的……就是天难看了点，没云，还过曝，一片死鱼白。但天不过曝的色彩就没这么鲜艳，真是纠结啊。

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顺便给Gallery换了下主题，终于可以把丑恶的活动边栏隐藏掉了，可惜这个主题没有好看的黑色配色。