This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Outside looking in, a lone male elephant seal lurks at the edge of a harem. Another year of feeding at sea may give him the bulk and the strength to win his own domain.
See more photographs from the October 2008 feature story "Elephant Seals."
A South American gray fox (Lycalopex griseus) yawns as dusk falls on Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. In Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin chronicled his first encounter with another member of the same genus, Darwin’s fox (Lycalopex fulvipes): "I was able, by quietly walking up behind, to knock him on the head with my geological hammer. This fox, more curious or more scientific, but less wise, than the generality of his brethren, is now mounted in the museum of the Zoological Society."
See more photographs from the October 2008 feature story "Darwin."
译文：
黄昏时分的南美灰狐
摄影：Mattias Klum
当暮色降临智利百内（译注：Torres del Paine，又译作托雷德裴恩，当地印第安语蓝色众峰之意）国家公园时，一只南美灰狐（Lycalopex griseus）打着哈欠。在《贝格尔号之旅》中，达尔文记录了他与这一属另一个成员达尔文狐（Lycalopex fulvipes）的第一次相遇：“我可以悄悄走到它的背后，用我的地质锤敲击它的头部。这种比它的同胞更具好奇心或者技巧性却不够狡猾的狐狸现在已经进入了动物学博物馆。”
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Bathed in moonlight and swollen with floodwater, the rush of Haw Creek Falls in Arkansas announces the return of spring. To minimize maintenance, there are no bridges along the trail. "In some places you can hop from rock to rock," says Tim Ernst, one of the trail’s pioneers. "In others you have to get your feet wet and feel how cold the water really is."
See more photographs from the October 2008 feature story "Ozark Trail."
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
The mountain’s moods aren’t all bad. Spring warmth draws crowds to New England’s Tuckerman Ravine, including thrill seekers who attempt to ski a steep headwall. Others simply relax in the sun-washed glacial cirque and bask in the presence of the peak.
See more photographs from the February 2009 feature story "Mount Washington."
