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Innovative wildlife filmmaker John Downer uses covert digital technology to bring human audiences astonishingly close to the most reclusive wild animals. With elephants and tigers as previous subjects, Downer’s latest offering is focused on the beautiful but endangered maritime species in Polar Bear: Spy On The Ice.
Eight-year-old Jule and a keeper try to clean the teeth of female elephant Mogli with a giant brush at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg
(Reblogged from magicalnaturetour)
A four-day-old African spurred tortoise sits on the head of its mother in their enclosure in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary
when confronted with an enemy, the pistol shrimp cocks back its claw like a pistol and shoots a bullet of air that momentarily reaches the temperature of the sun as it collapses.
whoa! an organic laser (of sorts)?
Indonesia—A tender moment transpires between mother and infant orangutans in Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park. The arboreal species has one of the longest intervals between births among mammals, typically around eight years. (by Jami Tarris)
Chobe elephant by Frits Hoogendijk :)
(taken and submitted by old-routines)
