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Humpback

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A young humpback meets the lucky photographer’s gaze in the waters around Vava‘u, Tonga. Mother humpback whales and their young swim close together, even touching one another often with their flippers in apparent gestures of affection. “We had been observing this young calf … for perhaps ten minutes when [it] decided to leave [its] mum’s side and swim over,” Your Shot photographer Michael Smith says. “I could clearly see [its] beautiful eye staring right into my soul.”

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Misty Moose

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Morning draws a moose cow and calf into the shallows of Mayfield Lake in British Columbia. With a rich array of species, including several types of large mammals, the M-K offers a unique window on wildlife. Few roads open into the region, limiting human access—but not animal behavior, says Kathy Parker, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Northern British Columbia. A relatively intact landscape has helped keep ecosystems intact and let animals retain flexibility in what they eat and how they migrate. “Animals in the M-K still have a lot of options,” Parker says. “It allows animals to use more than one strategy to make a living, which may be important for long-term survival and reproduction.”

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Just another day at the health spa

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A struggle to navigate a mud-bogged road in China’s Yunnan province turned out to be a photo opportunity for Your Shot member Attila Balogh when a curious water buffalo calf studied his lens. “We were driving down a supposedly province-level highway,” he writes. “As it turned out, it was an unpaved road. June is rainy there, so we had a very difficult trip, with small lakes forming in the middle of the road, where we had to stop to [determine] if we [could] pass with our tiny car. At one of these stops we came across this water buffalo family … taking a dip in the deep mud at the roadside. They were practically immobile and very relaxed. I took out my fish-eye lens and slowly walked up to the calf, who was very interested in the shiny thing in my hand—his nose was about two centimeters from the lens.”

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