2016 was considered by many as a “down year” as many strange, unexpected and downright depressing things happened all throughout.
Yet, despite how bad 2016 may have been in the eyes of many, some pretty awesome moments still happened last year, and the following photos, courtesy of National Geographic, are proof of that.
Ye Ye The Giant Panda
This photo was originally published in “Pandas Get to Know Their Wild Side,” in August 2016.
The subject of the photo is Ye Ye, a 16-year-old giant panda, as she lounges about inside a wild enclosure at a conservation center in China’s Wolong Nature Reserve.