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ملاكمة القرود وأكل النمور للأفاعي.. صور لا تُصدق من الحياة البرية

6 ديسمبر، 2019

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Night hikes are one of my favorite activities so far! As a biologist with a special interest in herpetology, walking by the trails in the jungle after sunsets are just otherworldly for me. Every single night is different, sometimes you find dozens of cool sights, sometimes the forest is empty! In one of those hundreds of night adventures, I found this Labiated Rainfrog (Pristimantis labiosus) with a baby tarantula in the mouth! This species is so far one of the most common in the Ecuadorian Chocó, and that night was my first picture ever of it. So happy that was one while he was caught in the act! Mashpi, Pichincha, Ecuador

Pantanal, Brazil. It was in the middle of the afternoon and we were on the Cuiaba river when Regina, our guide, told us that she had just been informed that there was a female Jaguar with her cub on a nicely open sand beach on the Tres Irmaos River. We immediately decided to go check them out hoping they would still be there by the time we completed the 45-minute boat ride. As we got close, we saw over 10 boats leaving as the pair had left the open and went into the dense vegetation. We decided to stay, hoping that they would appear again now that it was much quieter with only two boats left. We suddenly heard a splash in the water and saw the mother and the cub crossing the river right in front of us. The cub was holding onto something that looked like her tail. As they started to come out of the water we realized that they were both holding onto an anaconda. There were muffled screams on the boat as nothing had prepared us for this. They got out of the water and posed for a bit. The mother was looking ahead, probably checking her surroundings. The cub was looking at his mother while holding the snake. The shape of the anaconda, its color pattern matching that of the jaguars and his mouth wide opened making an already amazing scene almost surreal. In all this excitement I managed to adjust my settings and take the shot. (Canon EOS 1DX Mark II – 500mm – F13 – 1/1250 – ISO 1250) IUCN red list classification: Near Threatened – Photo modifications: Exposure slightly decreased. Highlights, contrast and clarity slightly increased. Sharpening filter applied. Photo slightly cropped.

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