This may be the last post for a couple of days as I attempt to move my site to a new server, but who knows. If you don’t hear from me for a few days, well… that’s the issue. In the meantime, this is the cheetah that we were able to get extremely close to. They were in the process of re-introducing her to the wild. She had already made several kills on her own, but was still very comfortable around people. I, of course, was loving it, being able to get wide angle shots like this with very little effort. The location is Lewa in Kenya.
In honor of my mother, whose birthday it is today, I had to go with a mother/baby shot. These two lions were temporarily separated from the rest of the pride — the mom guarding a wildebeest kill she had just made. The baby kept nuzzling up to the mom, but every now and again — probably bored because there was no one else to play with — would come out of the bushes to investigate us. Happy Birthday Mom.
This was a tiny little langur baby about the size of a squirrel. He kept straying away from his mom, investigating every inch of the new world he was recently brought into. I was in Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Some of you might remember this fox mother and pup from a previous post. In that photo, the two were nose to nose. Just prior to that little bit of action, however, the mother was nuzzling the back of the pup’s ear. There was also a third pup to the left of the frame that made it into several other photos. It was one of those rare mornings when the light was perfect and the animals cooperated by putting on quite a show.
Langur monkeys and chital (spotted deer) are often found hanging out together in the national parks of India. They share a mutually beneficial relationship — the tree-dwelling langurs provide lookout services from on high, while the deer use their fine tuned senses on the ground. They are both well aware of the other’s warning calls, and together they stand a better chance against a sneak attack from a tiger.
The toco toucan is the largest toucan in the world. They range from Central America through eastern South America. This one was hanging out in a tree in the front yard of the lodge that I stayed at in the Pantanal of Brazil.
I previously posted another shot like this from Botswana. I just found this one and think I like it better. The antelope is a springbok, which are very common in the Central Kalahari Desert. It was nice each night to capture the huge sun on the horizon with my telephoto lens (which compresses space, making it look even bigger than it actually is).
This poor little lion cub got pinned against that log when its mother rolled over in her sleep. After a quick struggle, the little guy was able to get free and climb on top of mom to continue playing.
This crested crane had about five chicks, but they were all scattered about in the grass. At least you can see one, blurred out in the background. It was raining pretty hard, but it also happened to be a great day for shooting. The location was Laikipia, Kenya.
Striped hyenas are much more rare than spotted hyenas and we were lucky to see this one in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. Not only are they endangered, they are also almost strictly nocturnal and rarely seen in the daylight. This was at the end of the day and shot in very low light as two of them were ducking in and out of their den, getting ready for a night of foraging. Our guide said that he had only seen striped hyena a few other times in the reserve.
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