*LIFE IN COLOUR*_* ORANGE part 2
Scores of orange koi fish crowd a pond in Oahu, Hawaii. Prized by collectors, koi are an ornamental variety of freshwater carp originally raised in Japan.
A tubastraea coral waves its wispy, orange tentacles near Sangeang Island, Indonesia.
Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, but they support one out of every four marine creatures.
The pastel-orange of the Grand Canyon's sandstone walls dominates the view from the vantage known as SB Point.
The canyon's rock layers display a geological history some two billion years old.
The moon rises over Big Meadows on an autumn evening in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park.
Some 450 families in the Blue Ridge Mountains were relocated when the park was created in the 1930s.
A burning orange sun sets behind a fringe of pampas grass in Japan. Japan's nickname, "The Land of the Rising Sun,"
is derived from the Chinese ideograph meaning "place of the sun's origin."
This toxic orange Godiva nudibranch was photographed in the Raja Ampat islands, Papua, Indonesia.
There are over 3,000 known species of these colorful sea slug relatives, and new ones are discovered nearly every day.
Two brightly colored sun conures relax on a branch at the Bramble Park Zoo in Watertown, South Dakota.
These South American parakeets are common in captivity, but wild populations have crashed due to unregulated trapping.
An extreme close-up shows the delicate hair of an orange baboon tarantula, a resident of the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
This large, aggressive species is native to Africa.
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