1685. Along with hippos and bathing elephants, crocodiles share the Zambezi River. A dangling arm or leg from a canoe can be enough to entice their appetites. <BR>　　(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine) <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/06212_36.jpg"><BR>
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1684. "Southern Otters, considered extinct by 1900, reappeared near Monterey in 1938. Today federal, state, and international laws protect the furbearers." <BR>　　(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Return of the Sea Otter," October, 1971, National Geographic magazine) <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/01314_2.jpg"><BR>
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1683. "A woman training to be an izangoma, or traditional healer, gathers muti, or medicine, along the Indian Ocean near South Africa's border with Mozambique." <BR>　　<BR>　　桭rom "100 Best Unpublished Pictures," January 2004, National Geographic magazine collector's edition <BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/MM6704_0011.jpg">

1682. "At home in an ancient volcano, a rice farmer eyes a storm above Lake Toba, cupped in a crater on Indonesia's Sumatra. His upland home rises high and cool above jungles and swamps of the world's sixth largest island." <BR>　　—From "A Sumatran Journey," March 1981, National Geographic magazine <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/02384_50001.jpg">

1680. Once plentiful around the Zambezi River, African elephants have suffered from a loss of habitat caused by an irregular and reduced flow of the river in the area. <BR>　　(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine) <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/06212_260.jpg"><BR>
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　1679. "Hikers tarry in a patch of cotton grass in glacier-carved Okpilak valley. Snow on the ridge recalls a long dark winter past." <BR>　　—From the National Geographic book America’s Hidden Wilderness: Lands of Seclusion, 1988 <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/SP115_50084.jpg"><BR>
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　　1678.A wild pony nuzzles its mother on Assateague Island. These wild horses roam free on the Maryland side of the island and are kept within fenced areas in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on the Virginia side. <BR>　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book The Wild Ponies of Assateague Island, 1975) <BR>　　<BR><BR><IMG src="http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/pictures/lg_wallpaper/01795_78.jpg"><BR>
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