National Geographic Unveils Its 13 Best Instagram Photos of 2017

• 1

  Kauai with his pet monkey

  Photo by @chamiltonjames / Charlie Hamilton James

  Via National Geographic
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• 2

  Iguanas live on the edge and the difference between life and death is a few degrees of temperature

  Photograph by @thomaspeschak Galapagos Marine

  Via National Geographic
• 3

  This is what a starving polar bear looks like. Weak muscles, atrophied by extended starvation could barely hold him up

  Photo by @CristinaMittermeier

  Via National Geographic
• 4

  In cold weather, a normally reddish brown ermine changes into its white winter coat: a perfect camouflage adaptation for this small and fast predator.

  Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner @stefanounterthiner.

  Via National Geographic
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• 5

  Cheetahs are the most vulnerable of the world’s big cats, with cub mortality as high as 95 percent, often due to predation by lions and hyenas.

  Photo by @FransLanting

  Via National Geographic
• 6

  Greenlandic dog is not a pet dog but a working dog that Inuit hunters and fishermen use for dog-sledding. They are the least know casualties of climate change.

  Photo by @ciriljazbec

  Via National Geographic
• 7

  After over 11,000 photo submissions from around the world, our panel of judges has named the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year!

  Photo by @Jayaprakash_bojan

  Via National Geographic
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• 8

  Seal Pups Kissing!  Two harp seal pups meet each other on the pack ice of Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence, touching noses as they sniff one another.

  Photo by @BrianSkerry

  Via National Geographic
• 9

  “Eye to Eye” Inside every animal is an individual with its own emotions and needs.

  Photo by @FransLanting

  Via National Geographic
• 10

  Every night in Unalaska, I'd spot this red fox near the side of the road, charming drivers with its irresistible cuteness into throwing it snacks out the window.

  Photo by Corey Arnold @arni_coraldo

  Via National Geographic
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• 11

  A clownfish peers from the tentacles of its host anemone in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea.

  Photo by @DavidDoubiletCelebrating

  Via National Geographic
• 12

  young mule deer inspects a camera trap near Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

  photo by @chamiltonjames / Charlie Hamilton James

  Via National Geographic
• 13

  Snow leopards are the ghosts of the high mountain areas of central Asia in which they live

  @stevewinterphoto @natgeo

  Via National Geographic

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