Elephants use their trunks to make up for their small tongues.
Images
Gorilla (Hominidae)
Patience.
Peru 2015 – Horned Screamer
It’s not really a horn, just a feather. It is also astonishingly difficult to photograph … especially if you want to get a bee in the same shot.
Sign
I stayed for a few hours, but the marshmallow never melted. :(
Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)
His phone was, like, right there a minute ago.
Peru 2015 – Bats
In America, land of the rich, bats live in attics and barns. In Peru, the economy is so bad bats have to cling to trees that are under water half of the year.
Monkey Monday
When the morning goodbye hug lasts through breakfast.
Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)
You can tell, these are the most vicious predators in Madagascar, right?
Peru 2015 – Moon
When you’re this close to the equator, eclipses happen in the middle of the moon and grow up and down from there.
Prairie Dogs performing Romeo and Juliet
Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.
Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!
Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:
Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!
Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
The name “fire shrimp” is a misnomer. You can’t actually burn shrimp when they’re underwater. Well, unless you make them out of magnesium, I guess, but then they’d be called “magnesium shrimp”.
Peru 2015 – Bird
Sometimes the sun is kind and puts itself right where you’d put a flash.
Peru 2015 – Monkey
Mmmm – pods
Siamese Crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)
Crocodiles evolved to have all the bits that need air above the water because the ones that didn’t do that became fish.
Peru 2015 – Egret
This is the most common bird on the amazon. So common, in fact, that you kinda stop shooting them. Then you notice a perfect pose in the perfect light and remember that they’re actually kinda neat.
Clown Fish and Anenome
If you had a venomous lawn, you wouldn’t have many visitors either.
Prevosts Squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii)
Thankful for the RAW file format.
Not the squirrel, me. Black and white mammals are hard to light properly in the limited time you have before they stop posing for you.
Micronesian Kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus)
Thankful that bird jocks don’t taunt bird nerds for having underbites.
Knight anole (Anolis equestris)
Thankful for claws, not too pleased about gravity.
Peru 2015 – Marmoset
I hesitate sharing this one because, objectively, it’s not very good. However, the situation was this …
I was in a skiff on the side of a river tributary. The guide was pointing into the trees and saying “monkey”. All we could see was movement, but it was extremely dark, as the sun was setting, and the monkeys were about three trees in, under the canopy. I had to shoot “wide open” to maximize the light gathering of the lens, at the cost of focus ability. Also, it was so dark, the the ISO was set extremely high (creating the noise).
So I was bouncing up and down, moving left to right, aiming and trying to focus in the dark on little monkeys that were each smaller than my hands … and I still got a shot better than the bigfoot hunters.