This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Clinging to the hand of a human protector, six-year-old Mugi is one of some 500 orphans cared for at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue Center in Indonesian Borneo. The island’s orangutans are endangered: The population has fallen by more than 50 percent in the past 50 years.
See more photographs from the November 2008 feature story "Borneo."
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Neurobiologist Constance Scharff finds inspiration swimming near her Berlin home. Her discoveries trace a thread woven through all creatures: "The genetic hardware a bird uses to learn to sing probably isn’t far from what a mouse uses to learn to run a maze, and what you use to learn to speak."
See more photographs from the February 2009 feature story "Darwin’s Legacy."
Stallions Fighting, South Dakota Photograph by Melissa Farlow
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Two stallions fight at a wild horse conservation center in South Dakota. It’s an equine echo of an ongoing struggle across the western United States, where mustangs compete for space with ranching and energy development.
See more photographs from the February 2009 feature story "Wild Horses."
Newborn Weigh-In, India Photograph by Lynn Johnson
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
Founded in 1970, the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (also known as Jamkhed, for the city where it is based) delivers preventive care to poor people who otherwise would get none. The project has served 300 villages and 500,000 people in Maharashtra state, including a newborn baby, fully swaddled and suspended for his weigh-in by village health worker Leelabai Amte.
See more photographs from the December 2008 feature story "Community Health."
