National Geographic 2016 Best Animal Photos

[Patriot]

Not really sure if this belonged in this thread, but figured it would appeal mostly to those of us interested in hunting and conservation.

National Geographic 2016 Best Animal Photos:

Best Animal Photos of 2016

 

[Magnus]

Those are some really good shots. They opened up with that nice one of the bear lol.

 

[GOYABEAN]

Amazing images sad that some of these animals will become extinct in our lifetime Thanks for posting them @Patriot

 

[Patriot]

Amazing images sad that some of these animals will become extinct in our lifetime Thanks for posting them @Patriot

Agree. The rhino photo with his tusk missing really gets to me. I'm a hunter and a conservationist. I don't harvest anything I won't eat and have never trophy hunted a day in my life. The senseless killing of an endangered animal so some rich asshole can have a piece of ivory is disgusting.

 

[Robin]

The two biggest markets for Rhino horn are China, which makes medicine and some kind of viagra compound from it, like they need more breeding, The other is Yemen where they make a traditional tribal knife with a handle made from the horn. The hors are a protean similar to hair and not ivory. Yeah, that photo set me off too.
Robin

 

[Patriot]

The two biggest markets for Rhino horn are China, which makes medicine and some kind of viagra compound from it, like they need more breeding, The other is Yemen where they make a traditional tribal knife with a handle made from the horn. The hors are a protean similar to hair and not ivory. Yeah, that photo set me off too.
Robin

Good to know. Thanks for the information.

 

[GOYABEAN]

That little Pangolin is also used in Bullshit medical market place and bush meat

 

[Criticalt]

The rare and illusive Cuomo weasel!!

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

There were some really cool pics.

Glad to see so many awesome ones came from 'Merica

 

[GOYABEAN]

The rare and illusive Cuomo weasel!!

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[Magnus]

The rare and illusive Cuomo weasel!!

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Take notice on how it covers it's vagina....

 

[Blimey]

The wolves eating is the most badass.

I heard there is a program in some part of africa in which people are tranquilizing rhinos, then chainsawing off their horns, then letting the rhinos go. This is to protect them; no horn, no poachers--and they are not reselling the horns themselves. It's pretty smart really and they found that the horn-less rhinos are not that negatively impacted by it (only a small amount against defending from predators).

 

[Glenn B]

I used to read National Geographic but they started getting way too political and leftist for me. I won't even click on the link in this forum to look at the pics since I read about them putting a pre-teen boy's photo on a recent cover of their magazine (a boy who self identified as a girl and made himself up like one supposedly with his parents' blessing). I am not religious nor am I a prude when it comes to things sexual or gender related; however, I still believe the whole transgender thing to be mere perversion and not an acceptable life style and don't need in shoved in my face by a magazine I once considered a definite renewal at the end of each subscription period. From global cooling to global warming to climate change to it all being the fault of humans to political conflicts with them coddling the left to perversion on the front cover; I do not need or want their product around me.