2022 National Geographic pictures of the year

Photographed at night with an infrared camera, a spotted hyena that scientists nicknamed Palazzo submissively grins and lays her ears back as Moulin Rouge, the clan's dominant female at the time, towers over her. Palazzo's cub peers out from between them.

Jen Guyton/National Geographic

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