波士顿大图：2012年度最佳自然之美

来源：http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/12/best_nature_pictures_of_2012.html
标题：Best nature pictures of 2012
编者按：波士顿大图又出好图了，2012年度最佳自然之美精选出来的图片，涵盖了天文、地理、火山、气象、动物等人与自然的精美画面，再次唤起人们尊重自然，热爱自然的可持续发展意识。不错的图片，推荐给大家欣赏。

This is a compilation of images in which photographers have captured the beauty of our world, along with great moments among the living things we share this planet with. Most are from the reoccurring photo gallery The Natural World, in which photos of animals and our environment are selected from the many wire service photos moved throughout the year from all over the world. Many great photos of animals are taken in zoos, but this entry mostly shows creatures in their own habitat. -Leanne Burden Seidel
2012年度精选的最佳自然之美图片，集中体现了我们所在世界的奇美和与我们共生的大自然。

                               
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A lenticular cloud formed as high winds blew over the rugged Crazy Mountains in Montana. Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes. (James Woodcock, Billings Gazette via Associated Press)
美国蒙大拿州的荚状云。荚状云是自然界的一个奇观。它是一种高层小卷积云现象，是正常的大气现象，不过有时候会被误会为飞碟或不明飞行物体，所以亦俗称“飞碟云”。荚状高积云与雨幡洞云、滚轴云、乳状云、帽子云、波浪云等合称为十大奇异的云彩景观

                               
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A Japanese snow monkey relaxed in a hot spring in the Jigokudani valley in northern Nagano Prefecture, Japan. (Nick Ut/Associated Press)#
日本长野县地狱谷温泉里舒服泡澡的猕猴

                               
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Storm clouds gathered over Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland. (Lech Musynski/EPA) #
大波兰地区戈茹夫（Gorzów Wielkopolski）的风暴云聚集

                               
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Birds sat on the partly frozen river Elbe in Dresden, Germany. (Matthias Rietschel/dapd via Associated Press) #
德国部分封冻的易北河中的鸟群

                               
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A bumble bee collected pollen from a blooming crocus in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on the first day of spring. ( Martin Meissner/Associated Press) #
德国，春天里的小蜜蜂正在辛勤地采集花蜜

                               
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Snow covered trees in Rubi, Spain. ( Manu Fernandez/Associated Press) #
西班牙的冬雪，树枝上白雪皑皑

                               
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Seagulls were silhouetted against the sun on a mild afternoon in Boston. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) #
波士顿午后阳光下自由翱翔的海鸥

                               
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A coral on a reef in the Kenting National Park spawned in Taiwan. Coral spawning usually takes place by the 23d day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which fell on April 13 this year. (Tsai Yung-chun/Reuters)#
中国台湾垦丁地区珊瑚礁产卵

                               
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A Spiren shrub bloomed in the Central Park Conservatory Garden in New York. ( Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images) #
纽约中央公园温室花园的灌木

                               
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Fitzroy dolphins jumped in the waters off Puerto Madryn, Argentina.( Maxi Jonas/Reuters) #
阿根廷海岸的海豚跃出水面

                               
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A giant panda sat in a tree at a breeding center in Dujiangyan, China. The giant panda is among six young giant pandas which were bred in captivity and were released as a group of "pioneers" into an enclosed forest in Sichuan province. ( China Daily/Reuters)#
都江堰的大熊猫

                               
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A mole emerged from the dirt in Godewaersvelde, France. (Philippe Huguen/AFP/GettyImages) #
法国的鼹鼠从地道中钻出来

                               
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An egret waited for its prey at the reclaimed area in Manila Bay known as Freedom Island in Paranaque, Philippines. (Bullit Marquez/Associated Press)#
菲律宾马尼拉湾填海区帕拉那瓜岛，等待猎物的白鹭

                               
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Cherry trees bloomed in an orchard in Ockstadt-Friedberg, Germany. (EMILY WABITSCH/AFP/Getty Images) #
德国乡间的樱桃树

                               
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Seasonal winter storms lashed boats at anchor off Cape Town's Sea Point promenade. The Cape Peninsula has long been known as the "Cape of Storms" among sailors whose wrecked vessels have been scattered along the coastline at the southern tip of Africa for 400 years. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters) #
开普敦风暴角里停泊的船只，以及冬季风暴的来临

                               
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An apiaceae was covered with snow in front of a clear sky near Elbingerode, Germany. (Matthias Bein/AFP/Getty Images)#
德国乡间的扇形科植被

                               
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A goose rested on the snow at Skopje Zoo in Macedonia. ( Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters) #
欧洲马其顿斯科普里动物园里，雪地上的大白鹅

                               
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Horsetail Falls glowed just before sunset at Yosemite National Park in California. (Phil Hawkins/Reuters) #
加利福尼亚国家公园里的瀑布，沐浴在夕阳西下的日光里

                               
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Colored leaves hung on a tree at the garden of Pillnitz Castle near Dresden, Germany. (Arno BurgiI/AFP/Getty Images) # 德国公园中五彩缤纷的树叶

                               
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A squirrel defended its food against a pigeon after snowfall in central park in Minsk, Belarus. ( Sergei Grits/Associated Press)#
白俄罗斯明斯克公园里，松鼠正在保卫自己的粮食而与鸽子斗争

                               
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Monkeys enjoyed a cold bath in a pond during a hot day in a rural neighborhood north of Bangkok. The Thai capital is seeing its hottest average temperatures in 30 years. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters) #
在泰国曼谷30年来最高温的季节里，猴子们享受着池塘中凉水的快乐

                               
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Elephants gathered during the night to drink at a watering hole in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. Seeing a dire situation grow worse, the animal conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) enlisted religious leaders in the fight to end the slaughter of Africa's elephants and rhinos by poachers, hoping that religion can help save some of the world's most majestic animals. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press) #
肯尼亚国家公园里的大象

                               
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Incandescent materials, ash and smoke were spewed from the Popocatepetl Volcano as seen from the Santiago Xalitxintla, in the Mexican central state of Puebla. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)#
墨西哥火山爆发

                               
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Fall colors and the sunlit web of a labyrinthine orb weaver spider created an interesting mosaic in Fredericksburg, Va. (Dave Ellis/The Free Lance-Star via Associated Press) #
美国弗吉尼亚，秋日阳光下的蜘蛛

                               
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A mountain gorilla bared its teeth in a clearing in Virunga national park near Bunagana in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (James Akena/Reuters) #
非洲刚果民主共和国的黑猩猩，呲牙裂嘴

                               
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A morpho peleides butterfly laid its eggs while two ants surround one egg in Butterfly Garden in La Guacima, Costa Rica. (Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters) #
哥斯达黎加的蝴蝶产卵

                               
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A red fox sat in the grass as a magpie dived toward it in a field east of Walla Walla, Wash. (Jeff Horner/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via Associated Press)#
草地上的红狐紧盯住俯冲着陆的鸟

                               
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A male wild leopard climbed a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa, West Bengal, India. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP/GettyImages ) #
印度西孟加拉地区，雄性豹子掉进水库后紧紧地抓住渔网，期待爬出来

                               
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A gosling looked for food during a rain shower at Fancher-Davidge Park in Middletown, N.Y. (Tom Bushey/Times Herald-Record via Associated Press)#
纽约米德尔顿公园，细雨中觅食的小白鹅

                               
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A lizard suns itself on a rock on the Galapagos Pinzon Island, Ecuador. (Dolores Ochoa/Associated Press)#
厄瓜多尔的蜥蜴晒太阳

                               
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Barn owl chicks sat in a box in Israel's Beit Shean Valley near the border with Jordan. ( Baz Ratner/Reuters)#
以色列加沙附近靠近约旦边境的谷仓猫头鹰雏鸟

                               
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A penguin swam off Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro. Penguins arrive from the Antarctic Circle on ice floes that melt in the vicinity of Brazil's shore, and the birds wash up on Rio beaches every winter. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)#
随着浮冰漂移到巴西里约热内卢地区的企鹅

                               
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Dewdrops ran down a blade of grass near Trauchgau, southern Germany. ( Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/GettyImages )#
德国南部，露珠积聚并顺着小草滚落

                               
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An egret stood on a ship mooring rope in Rio de Janeiro. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)#

白鹭站在里约热内卢海港的船舶系泊绳上

                               
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Long-tailed mayflies mated on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszainoka, Hungary. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)#

匈牙利蒂萨河上，长尾蜉蝣交配的场面

                               
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A lion cub walked in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.(Noor Khamis/Reuters)#
坦桑尼亚国家公园里的小狮子

                               
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A thunderstorm moved over trees and a silo on a farm near Wichita, Kan. (Orlin Wagner/Associated Press) #
美国堪萨斯州的暴风雨即将来临

                               
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Swirls of green and red appeared in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon. The aurora was due to the interaction of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun with Earth's magnetosphere. (David Cartier, Sr./NASA via Reuters ) #
加拿大育空地区的北极光，五颜六色

                               
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An Indian Myna held a grasshopper for its chicks in a nest built inside the wall of an underpass in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi. (Parivartan Sharma/Reuters)#
印度新德里的八哥鸟

                               
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A tasselled wobbegong shark was seen lying on the substratum with the head of a brown-banded bamboo shark in its mouth during an underwater visual census of fishes on the fringing reef of Great Keppel Island on the Great Barrier Reef. ( Reuters)#
澳大利亚大堡礁的鲨鱼

                               
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Morning fog rose from vineyards near Escherndorf, Germany. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/GettyImages) #
德国乡间的晨雾