43 best photos of the year by National Geographic

National Geographic regularly (annually) shows photos that have amazed the international community, and 2016 is no exception.

The magazine recently published a list of its best photos of 2016. It contains remarkable visual stories from around the globe.

These photos are not just images, they convey emotions that unite and delight. Let's consider some of them.

Friend of human

The tamed tamarin swims with his young mistress in the Yomibato River, which is located in the Peruvian National Park. The animal is sincerely attached to the person, although usually representatives of this species try to stay away from people.

Perfect Storm

Evening thunderstorm lights the sky over the Wood River. 413 thousand cranes settle the night in this place.

Forward, to the goal!

Orangutan rises 30 meters in height behind a fig fruit. These animals are the largest of those that live on trees.

Day or night?

Meeting day and night. To capture this shot, the photographer spent over 26 hours on the mountain in Yosemite National Park. He had to make 1036 pictures.

The Old Panda

The 16-year-old panda lives in the Chinese nature reserve. This is a real long-liver.

Fish

Fishes are flocking to flocks off the coast of Cuba in the area of coral reefs. They swirl in mangroves to confuse predators.

And reef sharks enjoy warm water in the bay, waiting for a tide that will help them to get to the Seychelles lagoon Aldabra Atoll.

Reptiles

A young African white lizard man rides his mother. Photo taken at the Pangolini Nature Reserve in Florida.

Clever Octopus

The nervous system of this octopus is more complex than most invertebrates. Maybe he can think? Does he have consciousness? I wonder if we ever know about this?

Turtles

Turtles are hiding from the sun. If they do not do this, they simply weld themselves alive in their shells.

Predator birds

Blood drains from the neck of the neck. To get the most delicious piece, the bird has to immerse the head and neck in the interior and feces of the victim.

Wild West

The grizzly bear walks with its cubs along one of the Alaska highways. The road is open for cars only 5 days a year.

The outskirts of Yellowstone are more wild than the center of this region. Here are common grizzlies. The bear is compelled to protect its prey, the carcass of the bison, from wild birds. Tourists are kept on the other side of the road, so as not to provoke predators.

Color pond

A large prismatic source in Yellowstone changes color. This is possible due to bacteria, which, depending on the water temperature, change color.

Stock of water

In Flint, Michigan, the children of Abraham, Julie and Antonio each day carry bottles of water from Fire Station # 3. They form their own supply of fresh water.

Drifting in the ice

The vessel "Lance" drifted among the ice floes for five months in 2015. The flight was accompanied by the transition of the Arctic winter in the spring. During this time, scientists were able to conduct a lot of research.

Wolf feast

The carcass of the bison was an easy prey for the she-wolf and her two-year-old offspring. A real holiday for wolves in such harsh conditions.

Pets

Farmers from Peru go to the forest not only for hunting. They feed the spider monkeys, who are considered pets.

Landscape

Twilight envelops the holy font in Athens. Pilgrims in Ancient Greece may have made sacrifices here.

Adrenalin

The diver watches the tiger shark. However, the situation is not as dangerous as it might seem. Sharks attack spontaneously, so the divers watching them do not touch.

Into the space

The space engineer participates in the preparation of the flight to Mars. He is testing a spacesuit in the NASA space center. The conditions correspond to those that exist on the red planet.

In search of happiness

Isra Ali Saat moved with her whole family to Sweden from Somalia. In their view, living in Sweden is much safer.

Bird feast

A young vulture eats a piece of a zebra. More adult birds have already eaten meat, leaving skin and bones for other relatives.

Time is lost

Gerd Hemanab for the first time asked for medical help at the age of 67. But, unfortunately, it was already very late. Years of grueling work in the bright sun and dusty air destroyed his cornea. If he had asked for help earlier, blindness could have been prevented.

Grand Canyon

Photos of such sights inspired Congress to create a park known all over the world.

Sandstorm

The child painted a heart on the table in the train car, which came to the station Kashgar. Composition passed through the desert.

Military Congo

Rangers in the Congo are trained, including practicing an ambush attack.

Halt

In the field of view is a seller from South Korea Sungvin Hong. He rests after a walk in the Bukhansan National Park.

Mastery

Stephen Donovan found a seasonal job in the Glacier Park. He did this to hone his skills as a photographer, and not only ...

Culture

Residents of the village in Bagaran in Armenia sing about sobbing of cultural identity during a night picnic under apricot trees. Giant luminous cross on this background looks incredible.

Product of the future

These rhinoceroses recently had magnificent horns, but they were cut off. Unlike ivory, horns of rhinoceroses grow again when cut properly. Traders store them in the hope that the sale of such material in the near future will be legalized.

Migrants

This is the first summer migration of three weeks elk. They will pass with their mothers to the nearest slope about 2 km.

Echoes of wars

Shakhtar Igor Voronkin works in Barentsburg. Like most other miners, he arrived from eastern Ukraine, where fights are still going on.

Children affected by the fighting in Syria. Their childhood was stolen.

Bright city

The capital of Taiwan is an incredibly beautiful city of Taipei. With the onset of darkness, it becomes brighter and more beautiful.

Panda simulator

On the main photo of the article you can see how in China they use an artificial leopard to teach young pandas to be afraid of predators. The reactions of the animal help determine if the bear is ready for independent survival.

Medicine of India

Ophthalmologists of India take exams, selecting lenses for patients. In India, more than 8 million blind people, doctors want to change the situation.

Shepherds

Becky View and her husband David Tyler, along with their dogs, graze sheep. They guard the herd from large predators.

Crocodile

The American crocodile emerges from the mangroves. Usually they live in turtles.

Conquerors of roofs

Cyril Ecumenes photographs Dmitry Balashov on the edge of the building in Moscow. The guys are known as conquerors of the roofs, they publish their exploits in "Instagram".

Gas field

The Bovanenkovskoye deposit of natural gas was considered too expensive to develop and produce fuel. The situation changed when the Russian president made this direction a priority.