Red-capped cardinals were fairly common in the Pantanal. I got a lot of good close ups of them hanging around the lodge, but these two were photographed while deep up river late one afternoon on one of our jaguar searching missions.
Those are giant green sea anemones mixed in among all the barnacles, mussels and other tidepool life. This was taken one cloudy morning along the Washington coast in Olympic National Park.
Just a zebra minding its business. There are three different kinds of zebra in Africa, the mountain zebra, Grevy’s zebra and plains zebra. This guy is a Burchell’s zebra which is a subspecies of the plains zebra. You never know when you might need this valuable information. This photo was taken in Mburro National Park in Uganda.
Rufescent tiger herons were just one of the bird species that I photographed with their heads peaking out of the water hyacinth. These floating plants are a common site along river banks throughout the Pantanal in Brazil.
The light definitely didn’t cooperate with me the day I visited the famous “Einstein” monkeys in northeastern Brazil making shooting conditions difficult (although I do like the final shot because I had time to get into a better position vis a vis the light). None the less, this is a sequence showing the unique behavior that has earned these monkeys the distinction of the most intelligent in the New World. “Einstein” is just a nickname, of course, and they are actually called tufted capuchin monkeys. They range throughout a large portion of northern and central South America, but only those in this remote area of Brazil display this particular behavior. Their favorite food is the palm nut and they harvest only the ripest nuts. They then tear the outer husk off the nuts and leave them in the sun to dry for about a week. When they return to the dried nuts, they place them on a large flat rock surface, which acts as an anvil. They then use much harder igneous rock boulders as their tool to smash open the nuts. It’s really pretty cool to see these wiry monkeys lifting large boulders over their heads and then smashing them down. Only chimpanzees are known to make more intelligent use of tools.
This crested caracara was trying to enjoy his catfish lunch in peace, but the black vultures kept trying to sneak in and steal a bite. Every so often the caracara would attack the vultures to get them to back off. With my long lens mounted to the camera, I wasn’t able to capture both birds, but as you can see, I did catch just a piece of the vulture’s foot. The location was the Pantanal in Brazil.
I suppose the best way to wash an elephant is to just get on top of it with a scrub brush. This was taken in Sumatra, Indonesia where the domestic elephants really seem to enjoy their daily cleanings. It sort of reminded me of a dog rolling over to have it’s stomach rubbed.
This newborn orangutan looks like it just discovered where its next meal is coming from. The photo was taken in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.
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