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Today's Picture: Spotted Hyena Pup
April 14, 2008
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Photo Details: Spotted Hyena pup (Crocuta crocuta) emerges from its den to inspect our game drive vehicle,
Mashatu Game Reserve, Tuli Block, Botswana.
Camera: Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi); Lens: Canon EOS 70-300 IS Zoom; Focal Length: 300mm; Shutter speed: 1/50;
Aperture: f8; ISO: 400.
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Today's Picture: Waterbuck Bull, Rear View
April 24, 2008
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Photo Details: Waterbuck Bull (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) walking away, showing the distinctiive
white ring encircling its rump, Mashatu Game Reserve, Tuli Block, Botswana.
Camera: Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi); Lens: Canon EOS 70-300 IS Zoom; Focal Length:
280mm; Shutter speed: 1/00; Aperture: f5.6; ISO: 400.
Additional Info: The smaller picture on the right, taken moments before the waterbuck swung away
and walked off, shows the white ring from the side.
The purpose of this unusual marking is not known, although
animal behaviourists speculate it could be a following mechanism, acting as a beacon for other members of the
group to follow. The defassa waterbuck (a sub-species occurring mainly to the west of Africa's Rift Valley) has a
solid white patch on its rump instead of the elliptical ring.
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Today's Picture: Captive Chimpanzee
April 29, 2008
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Photo Details: Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) sitting on its haunches in the chimpanzee
enclosure, Natal Zoological Gardens, KZN, South Africa.
Camera: Canon EOS 400D; Lens: Canon 100-400 IS Zoom; Focal Length: 235mm;
Shutter speed: 1/125; Aperture: f5; ISO: 400.
Additional Info: I know we shouldn't ascribe human thoughts and emotions to animals, but
this picture, together with others I have of captive chimpanzees, leaves me deeply moved. I find it
impossible to ignore the look in their eyes. It's not so much anger and/or acccusation, as one might
expect, but rather a resigned acceptance of the fate they've been handed by their human brethren.
To illustrate what I mean, I will be running more pictures of captive chimpanzees over the next few
days, even though they are not of animals in the wild, which is what I normally try to show on this site.
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