“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” -Ansel Adams
Bantry Bay, Ireland
- For a belated Mother’s Day, send your mom these very cute photos of animal moms, courtesy of National Geographic.
An endangered pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) hangs out with her eight-month-old infant.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK
- Add these travel spots to your bucket list: Nat Geo Travel’s top 10 places to see wildlife
- Learn about The Sloth Institute in Costa Rica. They rescue baby sloths and help them return to the wild.
- Favorite new species: A new frog, Dendropsophus mapinguari, named after a mythical rain forest beast called the mapinguari.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PEDRO PELOSO
- Some days, you just need to watch a baby bison win a battle against a wolf: