
Most wildlife photography in 2012
• Best photos of wildlife in 2012
This collection includes photographs of nature and living things that inhabit our planet. Many of the photos are taken from the gallery "The Natural World", for which selected the best photographs of animals and the environment from various sources during 2012.

Snow-covered trees in Rubi.

The chicks Barn Owl sitting in a box in the Beit She'an Valley in Israel close to the border with Jordan.

lenticular cloud formed over the mountains in Montana, USA. Lenticular clouds form at high altitude.

The Japanese Macaque basks in the hot spring in the park monkeys "Jigokudani" in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Storm clouds loom over the city of Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland.

The birds are swimming in a partly frozen river Elbe in Dresden, Germany.

bumblebee collects pollen on a flower Crocus in the first spring day in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

seagulls silhouettes are seen in the background of the sun in Boston.

The process of propagation of corals on the reef in the Kenting national park in Taiwan. coral reproduction usually occurs in the twenty-third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which this year fell on April 13.

Birds sitting on a branch during a snow storm in Pembroke, NY.

Dolphins jump out of the water off the coast of Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

A giant panda sitting on a tree in the center of breeding pandas in Dujiangyan, China.

White heron hunts on reclaimed land in Manila Bay, Philippines.

Winter storm struck the ship, which is anchored in the sea off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.

Goose lies on the snow in zoo Skopeskom in Macedonia.

Waterfalls Horseteyl before sunset in Yosemite National Park in California.

Squirrel and Dove are fighting for a treat after a snowfall in the park in Minsk, Belarus.

Monkey refreshing in pond hot afternoon in a rural area north of Bangkok.

The elephants come to drink at night in the national park of Tsavo East National Park, Kenya.

Autumn leaves and the sun illuminated the web like a beautiful mosaic. City of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

gorilla sits in a clearing in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Lion walks in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

Meltwater runs along the trench, washed into the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, south-west of Ilulissat, Greenland.

Ants surrounded by one of the eggs laid by a butterfly Morpho Peleida, in the garden of butterflies in Costa Rica.

Magpie attacks fox, who is sitting in the grass in a field east of Valley Valley, Washington.

Gusonok searches for food in the rain in a park in Middletown, NY.

A lizard basking on a rock on Pinzon Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Penguin swims in the sea near the beach Arpoador in Rio de Janeiro. Penguins swim here on the ice floes of the Arctic Circle. Floes are melting off the coast of Brazil, and every winter waves endure penguins on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.

White Heron perched on mooring the ship in Rio de Janeiro.

Mayfly species palingenic tailed mate over the surface of the Tisza river in Hungary.

The storm approaches the silo on a farm near Wichita, Kansas.

aurora borealis lights up the sky over the city of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.

common myna brought its young grasshopper on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.

The birds are fighting for a place at the trough in the garden in Johannesburg.

The whale shark swims near the divers in the Galapagos Islands.

Bear and two bear, funky noise helicopter journalists, sitting on a tree in Altadena, California.

Bees swarming on the farm the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.

Cub loggerhead sea turtle crawls to the surf line in the State Park Myrtle Beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.