Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

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Photo: At dusk, a hippo stares down a remote camera placed at a favorite water hole in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.

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At dusk, a hippo stares down a remote camera placed at a favorite water hole in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda.

Picture of an American bison (Bison bison) at the Maxwell Game Preserve near Canton, Kansas

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A bison peeks under the truck sheltering National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, on assignment at the Maxwell State Game Preserve near Canton, Kansas.

Photo: The opening spread of the Albertine Rift article, from the November, 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine

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The opening spread of the Albertine Rift article, from the November, 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine

The US-Mexico border wall splits countries and habitat. Animals like this bobcat (Lynx rufus) or its cousin the ocelot, would normally cross the border to hunt or mate. Photograph by Joel Sartore with Mitch Sternberg, Jennifer Lowry, and Naghma Malik, all U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.

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The US-Mexico border wall splits countries and habitat. Animals like this bobcat (Lynx rufus) or its cousin the ocelot, would normally cross the border to hunt or mate. Photograph by Joel Sartore with Mitch Sternberg, Jennifer Lowry, and Naghma Malik, all U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.

Photo: A male Attwater's prairie chicken booming at The Nature Conservancy's Texas City Prairie Preserve.

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A male Attwater’s prairie chicken booming at The Nature Conservancy’s Texas City Prairie Preserve.

A crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) takes its own picture by breaking the beam of an infra-red camera trigger in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) takes its own picture by breaking the beam of an infra-red camera trigger in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

A crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) takes its own picture by breaking the beam of an infra-red camera trigger in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) takes its own picture by breaking the beam of an infra-red camera trigger in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: A white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) takes its own picture when it breaks the beam of an infrared camera trigger in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) takes its own picture when it breaks the beam of an infrared camera trigger in Brazil’s Pantanal region. (IUCN: Near Threatened)

A giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Brazil's Pantanal region. (IUCN: vulnerable)

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A giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Brazil’s Pantanal region. (IUCN: vulnerable)

A giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Brazil's Pantanal region. (IUCN: vulnerable)

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A giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Brazil’s Pantanal region. (IUCN: vulnerable)

Photo: A pair of blue-fronted (or turquoise-fronted) Amazon parrots (Amazona aestiva) in flight in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A pair of blue-fronted (or turquoise-fronted) Amazon parrots (Amazona aestiva) in flight in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: Blue-fronted (or turquoise-fronted) Amazon parrots (Amazona aestiva) in flight in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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Blue-fronted (or turquoise-fronted) Amazon parrots (Amazona aestiva) in flight in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

Photo: Gulls feed on a bowhead whale harvested by natives along the coast of ANWR.

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Gulls feed on a bowhead whale harvested by natives along the coast of ANWR.

Photo: Gulls feed on a bowhead whale harvested by natives along the coast of ANWR.

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Gulls feed on a bowhead whale harvested by natives along the coast of ANWR.

Photo: The shutter fired just in time to catch the flash from a camera in the congregation at the Salem Baptist Church in Omaha, NE.

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The shutter fired just in time to catch the flash from a camera in the congregation at the Salem Baptist Church in Omaha, NE.

Photo: Cole and Ellen Sartore battle against their father, the photographer, who is on the other end of a see-saw.

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Cole and Ellen Sartore battle against their father, the photographer, who is on the other end of a see-saw.

Photo: The threatened Florida scrub-jay, shown at Oscar Scherer State Park in FL.

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The threatened Florida scrub-jay, shown at Oscar Scherer State Park in FL.

Photo: Pelican in flight at the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.

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Pelican in flight at the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo: Sandhill cranes in flight over the Platte River in Nebraska.

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Sandhill cranes in flight over the Platte River in Nebraska.

Photo: Sandhill cranes in flight over the Platte River in Nebraska.

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Sandhill cranes in flight over the Platte River in Nebraska.

Photo: A giant anteater is bottle-fed on a ranch in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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A giant anteater is bottle-fed on a ranch in Brazil’s Pantanal region. The animal was orphaned as an infant and hand raised by ranch hands. For a while after its release, it returned for its regular feedings but it eventually ventured out on its own.

Photo: Pigs crowd toward the photographer at a small hog operationnear Burr, Nebraska.

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Pigs crowd toward the photographer at a small hog operationnear Burr, Nebraska.

Photo: Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida.

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Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida. This panther is suffering from mange and ringworm as a result of inbreeding within the small population. Upon seeing the animal, biologists remarked on how good it looked compared to the last time they radio-collared it.

Photo: Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida.

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Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida. This panther is suffering from mange and ringworm as a result of inbreeding within the small population. Upon seeing the animal, biologists remarked on how good it looked compared to the last time they radio-collared it.

Photo: Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida.

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Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida. This panther is suffering from mange and ringworm as a result of inbreeding within the small population. Upon seeing the animal, biologists remarked on how good it looked compared to the last time they radio-collared it.

Photo: Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida.

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Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida.

Photo: Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida.

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Endangered Florida panther caught in the wild with a cameratrap at the Florida Panther NWR near Naples, Florida. This panther is suffering from mange and ringworm as a result of inbreeding within the small population. Upon seeing the animal, biologists remarked on how good it looked compared to the last time they radio-collared it.

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