PHOTO OF THE DAY February 14, 2006  

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Where Assateague Island, Virginia or Maryland
When
Photographer James L. Stanfield

A wild pony nuzzles its mother on Assateague Island. These wild horses roam free on the Maryland side of the island and are kept within fenced areas in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on the Virginia side.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book The Wild Ponies of Assateague Island, 1975)


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