[世界各地] National Geographic Everyday---Grand Finale

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8-7-2010 10:28 上传

For a male bee-eater, mating depends on finding food…such as a dragonfly.

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9-7-2010 12:18 上传

Herod the Great's three-tiered palace cascades down the north face of Masada, the work of a king long reviled as a villain but today recognized as a master architect. With Roman techniques and unique ambition, he created audacious masterpieces of stunning beauty.

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12-7-2010 17:37 上传

To find new grazing, vicuñas dash across a corner of the Uyuni salt flat. Just three feet tall, these animals produce wool so soft it was reserved for Inca royalty. Hunted almost to extinction, they're now protected and making a comeback.

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13-7-2010 10:33 上传

195 (Estimated U.S. population is fewer than 100 wild, 95 captive)

Wild ocelots are gone from all U.S. states except Texas, driven out by human development. The elusive cats still roam the wilds of Central and South America, but there's little reliable data on their true numbers.

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14-7-2010 10:49 上传

This colorized scanning electron micrograph shows pollens—Bermuda grass in green, maple in red, and ragweed in yellow—at roughly 3,000 times their itchy, sneezy life size.

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15-7-2010 10:51 上传

Dark lens on inner space, a sinkhole in Belize's Blue Hole Natural Monument plunges 410 feet (125 meters).

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16-7-2010 10:31 上传

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.

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19-7-2010 10:38 上传

Chased off one goldfield in Prestea, Ghana, illegal miners shifted to this abandoned concession along the Pra River. An estimated quarter million small-scale miners, most of them operating without government permits or regulation, scrape for gold in this West African nation.

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20-7-2010 10:22 上传

Wallace called "flying" frogs "very interesting to Darwinians." They showed how webbed feet for swimming had been adapted for gliding.

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21-7-2010 11:11 上传

After grazing, these Brahma cattle thread through the rain-loosened Paraguayan marsh back to corral.

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22-7-2010 10:34 上传

Today's internal combustion engines are inefficient at converting fuel to motion. Cars waste up to 85 percent of the energy from the fuel in their tanks, losing a big chunk as heat.

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23-7-2010 10:35 上传

On the first day of Ramadan, in a mosque filled with white-robed women, one child stands up and stands out. During the month-long holiday, Muslims seeking spiritual purification fast from dawn till dusk.

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26-7-2010 11:10 上传

Nutrients also wash off the shore and drop from the sky into the ocean, nourishing vibrant anemones and soft corals.

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27-7-2010 11:25 上传

President George W. Bush prepares to exit Cadillac One on the airport tarmac in Accra, concluding a state visit to Ghana. The Secret Service divulges few details about the custom-built limousine that travels the world with the Chief Executive, but the armored car is rumored to weigh some 10,000 pounds and carry its own oxygen supply to protect against poison gas attacks.

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28-7-2010 10:33 上传

Skilled fingers separate good seed from bad at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños. "Miracle rice" varieties developed here in the 1960s doubled yields in Asia. Further growth has stalled since the mid-1990s, as investment in agriculture has declined. "Governments thought we'd won the war on food security," says IRI Director General Robert Zeigler. "So they put money elsewhere."

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29-7-2010 10:44 上传

Icon of Khmer civilization, Angkor Wat in Cambodia endures as a revered religious shrine.