Oregon Zoo has pub'd some radiographic images of its residents. We support well-run zoos and sanctuaries for one compelling reason; for many species, they are their best and last chance at maintaining a viable, diversified population. You can quibble all you like about born-free ideals and the evils of captivity, but there's not enough time left for those sorts of scruples. There just isn't. top to bottom: Chameleon, Flying Fox, Python, Beaver, Toucan. Damien Deroubaix Alexander Binder Izabella Dawid Wilk We have a house full of visitors and cannot come to the phone right now. Hope you had a good one, will post something soooooonish. Polar Pas de Deux by Eilo Elvinger, Luxembourg. From her ship anchored off Svalbard, in Arctic Norway, Eilo spotted a polar bear and her two- year-old cub in the distance, slowly drawing closer. Nearing the ship, they were diverted to a patch of snow soaked in leakage from the vessel’s kitchen and began to lick it. “I was ashamed of our contribution to the immaculate landscape,” says Eilo, “and of how this influenced the bears’ behaviour.” Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner 2017 (Also Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Story category) Memorial to a Species by Brent Stirton, South Africa.The killers were probably from a local community. Entering the Hluhluwe Imfolozi game reserve at night, they shot the black rhino bull using a silencer. Working fast, they hacked off the two horns and escaped. The horns would have been sold to a middleman and smuggled out of South Africa to China or Vietnam. 10 years and under category The Grip of the Gulls by Ekaterina Bee, Italy. Like all her family, five-and-a-half-year-old Ekaterina is fascinated by nature. On a boat trip off the coast of central Norway, her focus was on the cloud of herring gulls. They were after food, and as soon as Ekaterina threw them bread, they surrounded her. She liked the expression of the bird furthest away: ‘It looked very curious, as if it was trying to understand what was happening on the boat.’ A dandelion cross section showing curved stigma with pollen, magnified 25x Dr. Robert Markus A natural bridge connecting the abdomen and thorax of an ant, magnified 5x Can Tunçer Eyes of a digger wasp, with condensation, magnified 20x Laurie Knight |
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