Category Archives: Animals

The Silvery Gibbon

Click for info on buying this image. This is my first image of a Silvery Gibbon.  Rare within Zoos, only 33 worldwide are held outside Indonesia.     This particular Gibbon is one of two at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, though I believe the only Austalian breeding pair is at Perth Zoo, Western Australia.   ...

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The White Lions of Timbavati

Those of us who are nature/zoo/wildlife photographers always tend to have that one species that means more than the others, that may even have lead us to become photographers in the first place. For me, Lions were a childhood passion (only just exceeded by my love of Collies who also happen to have manes!) From...

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Last Man Standing

Just recently back from my trip to three Australian Zoos, I haven’t had too much time yet to reflect on what and who I saw. One thing that has stood out though, is that there were but a few enclosures that did not have the words “critically endangered” written somewhere on the info wall. Sobering...

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New Names!

The two baby Snow Leopards at Melbourne Zoo have now been named. The boy (who is the darker of the two) is called Gobi. And the beautiful little girl who is the more outgoing of the two, and is a lighter, silver colour has been named Tashi. Share and Enjoy:

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A Precious Pair

The birth of the new Snow Leopard cubs at Melbourne Zoo was amazing news for many of us regular zoo visitors. Melbourne Zoo hadn’t seen a Snow Leopard birth for over 20 years which means most of us had never come face to face with them before. The cubs started venturing out with mum Meo...

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