Photo of the Day

Herd of white-eared kob
February 9, 2011

White-Eared Kob, Sudan

This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Photos

Thousands of white-eared kob race in the shadow of a Wildlife Conservation Society survey plane in a park east of Bor. The seasonal migration of animals in southern Sudan is a spectacle to rival the flow of animals across Tanzania's Serengeti Plain.

See more photos from the November 2010 story "The Lost Herds of Southern Sudan."



Learn more about animal migrations »

Photograph by George Steinmetz, National Geographic

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