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Breathtaking photographs: The marvels of Mother Nature

December 12, 2013 09:08 IST

We present a selection of some of the most striking imagery of nature from the past month.

Opening photograph: A polar bear swims underwater at the family-owned Palmyre Zoo in Les Mathes, in the Charente Maritime region, western France.

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A woman views autumn colours of a climbing plant across a wall in central London.

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A man leads camels at the edge of the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China.

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A Cardinal rests amongst snow covered branches in the Japanese Garden section of Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York.

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Monarch butterflies fly at the El Rosario butterfly sanctuary on a mountain in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

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A tree stands near fog over the central Bosnian town of Vitez on the Lisac mountain range during sunset.

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Puffins carry sand eels for their young as they fly above the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast, northern England.

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A rare total cloud inversion is pictured from Shoshone Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park in Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States.

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People watch Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spewing lava as it erupts on the southern island of Sicily.

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A young king penguin stands in an enclosure at Zurich's Zoo.

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An unusually warm November day brings people to the Torrey Pines State Beach in San Diego, California.

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Japan's Mount Fuji is seen covered with snow from an airplane.

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Tourists bathe at the "El Cuarzo" waterfall in Cano Cristales in the Sierra de La Macarena National Park in Meta provinceof Columbia.

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Grey seals play underwater by the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast, near Seahouses, northern England.

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Gulls rest on a white tree in Dojran Lake, 170 km south of the Macedonian capital Skopje.

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