The most impressive animal photos of 2021

This year, when the human world is still engulfed in turmoil caused by the pandemic, in another world, the natural world of wild animals, they seem to have been forgotten by the other concern.

According to Kathy Moran, National Geographic's deputy director of photography, who personally made the selections, the main theme in this collection is the connection between humans and wildlife.

According to Kathy, photographers are willing to take photos that no one has seen before, through which they share the natural world, as well as deeply care about the stories they are telling. .

A male leopard (of the genus Panthera) jumps across a creek at the Florida National Wildlife Refuge. Their habitat is shrinking, with only about 200 individuals remaining in the northern Everglades reclaiming territory.

Glass frogs, the tiny Latin American arboreal species named for their transparent skin, are masters of camouflage.

Orphaned elephants at the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Northern Kenya are bottle-fed about every three hours.

Chaos at the center of a swarm of locusts at Lewa Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Kenya. Since the end of 2019, locust clouds have covered many areas of Africa, devouring crops and grasslands.

Off the coast of Marseille, about 256–78 meters above the Mediterranean Sea, narwhal shrimp float in a forest of black coral. They are about 10 cm long and send signals by touching their antennae.

Pelagia noctiluca, commonly known as the lilac jellyfish, is a jellyfish that scares seafarers because they secrete venom that can cause dizziness and paralysis.

Anthony Caere, a pilot at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, cradles baby chimpanzees as he takes them to the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center. This family of chimpanzees was killed by poachers.

Ndakasi mountain gorilla died in his caretaker's arms on September 26 after a prolonged illness. Andre Bauma and others at the Senkwekwe Mountain Gorilla Center, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have cared for this monkey since it lost its parents, and was found in 2007.

Carla Heras, a volunteer in Camprodon, Spain, holds a duck Laietana. Laietana is one of the 1,500 animals most rescued from the streets and agricultural areas in the center.

Every February, before the grueling northern migration begins, wildebeest and many zebras gather to graze and give birth in the short grasslands near the southern border of the Serengeti National Park. in Tanzania. Half a million wildebeest calves are born here each year, averaging 24,000 per day.

A 7-month-old cheetah in the back of an SUV hissed at the rescuer's outstretched hand. Authorities found the leopard before it was sold to a smuggler.

One of eight rare Rothschild giraffes brought to a reserve by a rescue team. They used a barge made of metal, steel beams and tarps to navigate through flooded areas.

The town of Simon, South Africa is home to a flock of African penguins. Some are used to human habitats, as they settle in gardens and even wander into homes.

Meerkats - a type of mongoose in the Kalahari Desert, southern Africa. This animal lives in herds, each group has about 20 to 30 animals, especially there are groups of up to 50 animals. Meerkat has an average lifespan of 12-14 years.

Interesting symbiosis, discovered when a fish hides behind a jellyfish, then steers it like a motorboat. Jellyfish help protect the fish from predators, while the jellyfish can feed on parasites that cling to its host.