造化万千

造化万千，非人力可穷！A golden lioness and her cub bask in the warmth of a savanna sun in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park.
As if sculpted from clay and left to dry, a breeding herd of elephant cows and their young drink from a water hole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park. It takes up to 50 gallons (189 liters) a day to quench the thirst of Earth’s largest land mammal, which wears cool mud like a bodysuit against its sensitive, sun-baked skin.It’s all downy softness and noise in a crowded crèche of emperor penguins in Antarctica. Despite the babble, a chick finds its own parents working strictly by ear: Their unique call distinguishes kin from stranger.In the tender trap of her jaws, a Bengal tiger totes her cub in India’s Bandhavgarh National Park. Named Sita after a Hindu goddess, this well-loved feline and prolific breeder bolstered the local tiger population with six litters in 16 years.
Elegant dancers in the late afternoon, rare Australian sea lions circle and glide in the clear waters of the Great Australian Bight.