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Photographer’s Journal: Up Close and Personal with British Otters
Posted by Guest Blogger on January 18, 2013 British photographer Charlie Hamilton James’s charming close-ups of otters grace the February 2013 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Here, he tells us how he captured such clear images of the shy creatures and their watery world, and explores the question: Can otters smell underwater?
Watching Wild Snow Leopards
Posted by Stuart Pimm on March 14, 2012 By Darla Hillard Education Director, Snow Leopard Conservancy Photo © John Merjanian: Wild snow leopard observed in Ladakh, northern India by members of the Wintertime Quest for the Snow Leopard Stuart writes: After Darla posted an earlier story, I begged her to do another to include a video clip of a young snow leopard playing with…
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Dr. Çağan Şekercioğlu is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. A professor of conservation biology, ecology and ornithology at the University of Utah Department of Biology, he also directs the Turkish environmental organization KuzeyDoğa. A gray wolf (Canis lupus) photographed by one of KuzeyDoğa‘s camera traps in Kars Turkey (Türkiye) is the only country covered almost entirely by three…
Posted by Photos taken on 18 January 2011 by a remote camera traps we have set up as part of an ongoing conservation science project to study the Andean bear illustrate that our sense of hearing, along with our sense of smell, is relatively weak compared to those of the large mammals living in the Peruvian forest, and that they react to us even when we don’t know they are there.
