fauna
White-headed Vulture
African Grey Hornbill (Tockus nasutus) -- tz_2142
Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) in Chobe National Park
Male blue-headed tree agama (Acanthocerus atricollis)
African leopard resting in an Acacia tree -- tz_1487a
Mother warthog with piglets
Juvenile cobra (unidentified species) along the road entering Tabin Wildlife Reserve in Sabah, Malaysia
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2256
Baboons atop a rock outcropping -- tz_2072
Thompson's gazelles running
Black bird with orange-red beak and orange belly
Chamaeleo sternfeldi chameleon -- tz_2154
Beisa Oryx (Oryx gazelle callotis)
Chickens are prepared as part of a family dinner by the river near Mencia in the Pedernales Province of the Dominican Republic.
Coho salmon headed upriver to spawn
Lion cubs -- tz_1653
African elephants -- tz_1433
Black bird with orange-red beak and orange belly
Orphaned elephant drinking milk at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
African elephants -- tz_1432
Lion scratching itself in the morning sun
A crab on the mangroves in the Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
Lion scratching itself in the morning sun
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2307a
Spur-winged lapwing (Vanellus spinosus)
Eland
Group of warthogs
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2229
Drone-fly (Eristalinus quinquelineatus), not a tse-tse fly
Pair of Magpie shrike (Corvinella melanoleuca) -- tz_1391
Chamaeleo sternfeldi chameleon -- tz_2147
Brown bear cubs
African Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus)
Bald eagle with chick in nest
Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) -- tz_1305
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Coho salmon headed upriver to spawn
Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) -- tz_2410
Black Colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis)
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
A broad-billed Tody (Todus subulatus) near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Young female lion -- tz_1721
Silver-brown spider
Orphaned elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
A Vervain Hummingbird (Mellisuga minima),the second smallest hummingbird in the world,in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
Sykes's Monkey feeding
Running bear cubs
Topi and fawn
Close-up of the tail of a Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) in Chobe National Park
Crocs along the Mara river
Lion cubs -- tz_1662
African leopard resting in an Acacia tree -- tz_1485
Undeveloped green turtle fetus found dead in nest
Gray heron, cattle egret, sacred ibis
Baboons atop a rock outcropping -- tz_2075a
Pair of African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) atop a tree -- tz_1563
Black rhino with infant rhicoceros
Ostrich chicks -- tz_1878
Pair of Black Colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis)
Researchers carry a Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) in a cloth sack. This keeps the animal safe and calm before the radial collar fitting needed for their research.
Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) -- tz_2413
Humpback whales breaching
A bird in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
Turkey vultures in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Black and white colobus monkey feeding in a tree
Bearded pig (Sus barbatus) at the mud volcano in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
Male ostrich with chicks -- tz_1863
Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) -- tz_1707
Male lion
Stray dog at the Oviedo Lagoon in the Dominican Republic.
Nile crocodiles on a beach
Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) on sea ice in front of Johns Hopkins Glacier
Pair of Marabou Stork; one of white is grooming
Buffalo
Brown bear
Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in Glacier Bay
Zebras among dry vegetation
Puff adder (Bitis arietans)
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2291a
Zebra with Lake Magadi in the background -- tz_elf_0628
A seabird at Bahia de las Aguilas at Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Lilac-breasted Roller, Coracias caudata -- tz_1546
Female agama lizard
Bateleur eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus) with a Verreaux's Eagle Owl (Bubo lacteus)
Lion
Brown bear
Abdim's Stork (Ciconia abdimii) -- tz_1483
African Green Pigeon, Treron calva
A broad-billed Tody (Todus subulatus) near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Thompson's gazelles running
Lioness with zebra kill -- tz_1631a
White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus) -- tz_2133
African elephants -- tz_1469
A butterfly near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Thomsons Gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) [male] -- tz_2357
Ruppell's Long-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis purpuropterus)
Cockroaches on the hand rails in the Gomantong Cave in Sabah, Malaysia
Infant elephant
Lions on the prowl
Palmchat (Dulus dominicus) on a palm in the village of Mencia,Dominican Republic.
Scaly Francolin (Francolinus squamatus)
Jaguar paw print
Crocs along the Mara river
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Pair of lion cubs -- tz_1738
Lioness -- tz_2336
White-headed vulture in flight
Green sea turtle limb--killed by a jaguar
Bateleur eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus)
Superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus) -- tz_2448
Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis) -- tz_1550
Two bald eagles on the mast of a sailboat
Local rangers cut leaves for Tam, a captive Bornean rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), who represents the hopes for eventual ex-situ breeding for the Critically Endangered subspecies of the Sumatran rhino (also Critically Endangered)
Blue Masked Lovebird near the entrance of its nest hole
Hippos standing and lying on a beach
Leopard
Pair of Oriental jackal (Canis aureus)
Blacksmith Lapwing (Vanellus armatus)
Giraffes on the horizon
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis)
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2211
Sykes's Monkey, Cercopithecus albogularis, in bamboo
Bald eagles in the temperate rainforest of Alaska
African Orange-bellied Parrot, Poicephalus rufiventris -- tz_2059
Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi)
African Grey Hornbill (Tockus nasutus) -- tz_2139
Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
African elephant (Loxodonta africana) skull
A (unidentified species) Macaque visit lodge in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) -- tz_2527a
Frontal view of a malachite kingfisher
Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Two male ostrich
Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) -- tz_1377
A Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) with grass seeds on its face near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
A snail near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Scientist and volunteer counting leatherback sea turtle eggs
A broad-billed Tody (Todus subulatus) near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Abdim's Stork (Ciconia abdimii) -- tz_1484
Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) -- tz_1708
A pelican in the mangroves near Cayo Arena in the Dominican Republic.
Black Colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis)
Vultures feeding on a kill
Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Hippos peaking out of a muddy river
Humpback whale spy hopping
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2282
Pair of Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala)
Vervet Monkeys grooming
Snow geese (Chen caerulescens) at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
A tarantula on a road near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Researchers handle a Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) by its thick tail. Handling the creature by the is seems to be the safest and gentlest method for both the solenodon and the researchers.
Wild male Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in a tree along the Kinabantagan River in Sabah, Malaysia
Purple Grenadier (Ureaginthus Ianthinogaster)
Common Fiscal (Lanius collaris) -- tz_1402
Augur buzzard -- tz_2201
Baboons atop a rock outcropping -- tz_2060
Hippos on the banks of the Mara river
Ruppell's Long-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis purpuropterus)
A bird in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
Orphaned elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) -- tz_1712
Brown bear
Go-away bird
Brown bear
Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) atop a tree
Brown bear cubs
Humpback whales
A dead hutia hit by a car in the Dominican Republic. This body was found in a part of the country that hutia were not previously thought to occupy.
Little Bee-eater {Merops pusillus} -- tz_1574
Brown bear cubs
Wildebeest herd -- tz_elf_0500
Orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) -- tz_1973
Southern Eland (Taurotragus oryx) -- tz_2006
Male ostrich defending chicks -- tz_1884
Group of Little Grebe or Dabchick standing at the edge of a waterhole
Baby vervet monkey -- tz_1794
African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Mother lion sleeping with cubs
Local rangers feed Tam, a captive Bornean rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), who represents the hopes for eventual ex-situ breeding for the Critically Endangered subspecies of the Sumatran rhino (also Critically Endangered)
Palmchat (Dulus dominicus) on a palm in the village of Mencia,Dominican Republic.
Brown bear
Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx) -- tz_2013
Hippopotamodes
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Lioness -- tz_2348
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2260a
Crabs (unidentified) inside the Gomantong Cave in Sabah, Malaysia
Lion cubs -- tz_1740
A tern at Cabo Rojo in the Dominican Republic.
Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) -- tz_1999
Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) feeding at sunset in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Hippo with an oxpecker on its back
White-bellied Bustard (Eupodotis senegalensis) [female] -- tz_1983
Snow geese (Chen caerulescens) at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) -- tz_1709
Sacred ibis in flight
Elephants -- tz_elf_0484
Pair of topi
Helmeted guineafowl looking for grubs
African Pygmy-falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus) -- tz_1523
A little blue heron at Oviedo Lagoon in the Dominican Republic.
Elephants in a marshy savanna
African Wattled Plover (Vanellus senegallus)
Roosters kept for cock fighting in the village of Mencia in the Pedernales Province of the Dominican Republic.
A Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) with a radial collar near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
Jumping chum salmon
Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) -- tz_1711
Cattle in northern New Mexico
Buffalo
Gulls on sea weed on a rocky beach
Orphaned elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Hyena and sacred ibis on the shore of Lake Magadi
Hippos and crocs
Standing bears
A pelican in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Black and white colobus monkey in a tree
Jumping chum salmon
Zebra among scrub trees -- tz_1938
Plains zebra
Close-up of African buffalo (Syncerus caffeer) herd
Lizard (unidentified species) in Saguaro National Park, Arizona
Southern Ground Hornbill preparing to swallow an insect
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Black Coucal (Centropus grillii)
Black-lined Plated Skink (Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus) -- tz_2175
Bohor Reedbuck (Redunca redunca) doe fedding on leaves
Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) -- tz_elf_0624
A seabird at Bahia de las Aguilas at Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.
A manatee and her calf in the Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
A spider near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
This Bornean rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), Tam, is a captive individual representing hopes for ex-situ breeding of the Critically Endangered subspecies of the Sumatran rhino (also Critically Endangered).
Lioness -- tz_2327
Young female lion -- tz_1729
Water frog - species unknown
Chamaeleo sternfeldi chameleon, not the Dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion species)
Young gazelle
Pair of crowned crane in flight
Lilac-breasted Roller, Coracias caudata -- tz_1541
A bird in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
A bright blue beetle in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
Female lion with wildebeest kill -- tz_2217
Cape buffalo with a Red-billed Oxpecker -- tz_1579
Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) flying over Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Hyena and sacred ibis on the shore of Lake Magadi -- tz_2471
Superb Starling, Lamprotornis superbus -- tz_1371
Female lion eating a wildebeest -- tz_2300
Dungeness crab
Dead wildebeest
Zebra
Thomson's Gazelle (Gazella thomsoni)
Coqui Francolin, Francolinus coqui
Unidentified flower in Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic.
A manatee in the Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
Lion cubs peaking around a tree -- tz_1659
Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus) -- tz_1535
Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) feeding on a lion kill -- tz_2310
Warthog
A Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) with a radial collar is released back into the forest near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Hippo standing among Hippopotamodes
A lizard in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
A girl and her puppy play in the fields in Punta Rusia,Dominican Republic.
Gray headed, yellow and orange bodied bird
African Pygmy-falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus) -- tz_1522
Green sea turtle killed by a jaguar
A manatee and her calf in the Estero Hondo Marine Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic.
Starling (unsure of species)
A Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) with a radial collar is released back into the forest near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
Raptor (species unknown) in the Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge just outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico
Thompson's gazelle in pursuit
A yellow beetle in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
White-faced whistling ducks (Dendrocygna viduata)
Female lion in savanna grass
Leatherback sea turtle laying eggs on the beach
Zebra among scrub trees -- tz_1936
Orphaned elephant with a knotted trunk
Maasai zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) -- tz_1379
A bird in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
Lilac-breasted Roller, Coracias caudata -- tz_1356
Ruppell's Long-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis purpuropterus)
Headless and bloated anaconda corpse
A hawk moth near Pedernales,Dominican Republic.
African Pygmy-falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus) -- tz_1519
A seabird at Bahia de las Aguilas at Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic.
White-backed Vultures, Gyps africanus, atop a tree
Warthogs
Bald eagles in the temperate rainforest of Alaska
A caterpillar in the Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve in the Dominican Republic.
Researchers carry a Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) in a cloth sack. This keeps the animal safe and calm before the radial collar fitting needed for their research.
Young female lion -- tz_1723
A young Narrow-billed Tody (Todus angustirostris) in Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Group of helmeted guineafowl
Cheetah
African Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus)
Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus) Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic.