圖文閱讀:動物世界3

赤狐 Red Fox, Denali National Park, Alaska

在阿拉斯加的德納裏國家公園(Denali National Park)，一隻赤狐正大張了嘴打着呵欠。狐狸有着很強的適應性，即使在有環境壓力的情況下仍能健康成長。它們生活在森林，草原，山區，沙漠，甚至人類環境中，如農場和郊區。它們單獨捕獵鼠類，兔子，鳥類等，有時也以其它的小獵物如魚，青蛙，蚯蚓和垃圾等爲食。
Photograph by Joel Sartore
In Alaska’s Denali National Park, a red fox opens wide for a yawn. Foxes are masters of adaptation, allowing them to thrive despite environmental pressures. They live in forests, grasslands, mountains, deserts, and even human environments such as farms and suburban areas. They are solitary hunters that feed on rodents, rabbits, birds, small game-even fish, frogs, worms, and garbage.
肩毛果蝠 Fruit Bats at Dusk, Zambia

　　在贊比亞的盧安瓜山谷裏，肩毛果蝠在夕陽染成絳紅色的天空下飛舞。在雨季，氾濫的盧安瓜河水將從兩岸溢出，將這片炎熱乾燥，塵土飛揚的大地變成鬱鬱蔥蔥的野生動物天堂。屆時數百萬的蝙蝠來到山谷中的樹上棲息，以數量劇增的水果爲食。
Photograph by Frans Lanting
　　
　　Epauletted fruit bats speckle a saffron-colored sky at sunset in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley. Millions of these bats come to roost in the valley’s trees and feed off the explosion of fruits during the rainy season, when the Luangwa River overflows its banks and transforms the dry, dusty landscape into an emerald wildlife paradise.

落在樹葉上帶斑紋的蟋蟀 Striped Cricket on Leaf, Southeast Asia

在一片東南亞的森林裏，星條交匯在這張蟋蟀的夜景照片中(譯註：星條指代美國國旗)。無論世界上的任何叢林裏，夕陽下沉之後，樹林中較常見的生物沉睡之時，罕見的生物們便紛紛出來滑行，跳躍和蜂鳴。
Photograph by Timothy Laman
Stripes meet stars in this night shot of a cricket in a Southeast Asian forest. In jungles throughout the world, the sinking sun summons a menagerie of rarely seen creatures that slither, leap, and buzz while the forest’s more familiar creatures sleep.

座頭鯨（非洲南部）Humpback Whale, South Africa

在南非附近，一頭有着四十噸力氣的座頭鯨衝出了水面。座頭鯨常見於世界各地的沿岸水域，因其神奇的歌聲而聞名，它們發出的一系列的嗚咽聲，嚎哭聲，啜泣聲以及其它各種聲音常可持續的縈繞數小時。科學家們認爲它們是在通過歌聲進行交流和吸引配偶。
Photograph by David Doubilet
Forty tons of gleaming muscle, a humpback whale blasts out of the water near South Africa. Found in coastal waters worldwide, humpbacks are known for their magical songs, haunting sequences of moans, howls, cries, and other noises that often continue for hours on end. Scientists believe they communicate and attract mates through song.