National Geographic Unveils Its 13 Best Instagram Photos of 2017

• 01

  Kauai with his pet monkey

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  Photo by @chamiltonjames / Charlie Hamilton James

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• 02

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

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  Photograph by @thomaspeschak Galapagos Marine

• 03

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

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  Photo by @CristinaMittermeier

• 04

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

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  Photograph by Stefano Unterthiner @stefanounterthiner.

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• 05

  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.

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  Photo by @FransLanting

• 06

  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.

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  Photo by @ciriljazbec

• 07

  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!

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  Photo by @Jayaprakash_bojan

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• 08

  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.

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  Photo by @BrianSkerry

• 09

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

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  Photo by @FransLanting

• 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.

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  Photo by Corey Arnold @arni_coraldo

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• 11

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

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  Photo by @DavidDoubiletCelebrating

• 12

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

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  photo by @chamiltonjames / Charlie Hamilton James

• 13

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

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  @stevewinterphoto @natgeo

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