Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

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Picture of a Northern Luzon cloud rat (Phloeomys pallidus) at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.

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Northern Luzon cloud rat (Phloeomys pallidus) at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic.

A male and a female Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. The male's name is Lamydoc. The female's name is Katanga. Listed as critically endangered and federally endangered

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A male and a female Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. The male’s name is Lamydoc. The female’s name is Katanga. Listed as critically endangered and federally endangered

A male and female Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla) at the Gladys Porter Zoo. Lamydoc, the male, was born in 1963. The female (light gray in color) is his mate, and was born in 1964. Listed as critically endangered and federally endangered

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A male and female Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla) at the Gladys Porter Zoo. Lamydoc, the male, was born in 1963. The female (light gray in color) is his mate, and was born in 1964. Listed as critically endangered and federally endangered

A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: A crew working to clean a pelican at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

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A crew working to clean a pelican at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

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A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

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A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: A crew of BP contract workers remove booms saturated with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from important bird breeding habitat in the Gulf of Mexico.

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A crew of BP contract workers remove booms saturated with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from important bird breeding habitat in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photo: A crew of BP contractors attempt to siphon oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill out of a marsh in the Gulf of Mexico.

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A crew of BP contractors attempt to siphon oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill out of a marsh in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photo: A BP clean up crew tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill at Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

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A BP clean up crew tries to sop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill at Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

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