Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

As part of National Geographic’s new Great Nature project, the magazine has collected more than 100,000 photographs that capture the world’s biodiversity — and some of them hail from very unusual sources. Case in point: An album “curated” by Google Maps, which collects wildlife accidentally captured by Google Street View.

Some of these photos are clearly intentional on the part of Google — like the monkeys chilling in the hot springs, below, or the snap of Antarctic penguins. But others are true photobombs, courtesy of a greedy Brighton seagull or a inquisitive frog trundling across the Street View lens. The photos hail from more than six years and millions of miles of Street View driving, so some of these you’ve likely seen before. But others are more obscure — and either way, it’s fun to see them all in one place. [Google Maps on Great Nature]

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Snow monkeys at Jigokudani Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Shimotakai District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Sea turtle off the coast of Heron Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef.

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Penguins on Half Moon Island, Antarctica.

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Donkey in Botswana.

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Frog on the Rio Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon.

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Seagull in Brighton, England, UK.

Meet The Wildlife Inadvertently Captured By Google’s Street View Cameras

Reindeer in Lebesby, Norway.


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