PHOTO OF THE DAY February 21, 2006  

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Where Zambezi River, Africa
When 1996
Photographer Chris Johns

Along with hippos and bathing elephants, crocodiles share the Zambezi River. A dangling arm or leg from a canoe can be enough to entice their appetites.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine)


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