For the love of wild animals!

This blog will post photos, art, and facts about wild animals. I will occasionally post pictures of captive animals because they are still considered wild. I am a student studying applied environmental anthropology. Wildlife and conservation are my biggest passions! If you've got any questions about the new structure of this blog, please click this

[namu-the-orca]

“Single Father”

A threesome of Southern cassowary chicks with a parent – but it’s not the mother. When it comes to parental care, father cassowary is all alone. He is solely responsible for the incubation of the eggs, and then takes care of the chicks for nine months. In that time they grow up from small, stripy balls of fluff (as depicted here) to lean, orange-brown teenagers, almost the size of dad. Single dads will go a long way to protect their brood, and cassowaries can be quite dangerous. Their weapon of choice is the sharp, elongated talon on their inner toe, visible in the drawing underneath dad’s dewlap.

[smokkery]

PLANET EARTH II: Episode 4 - Deserts

[sobekmose-blog]

[ccaracal-blog1]

ENDANGERED ASIATIC CHEETAH

Today, there are only 40-70 Asiatic cheetahs remaining in the world. Please consider donating to the Iranian Cheetah Society, or other organizations working for the conservation of this beautiful wild cat! 

[marthajefferson]

Officially, no one was able to approach the White Wolf for 25 years. Vincent Munier, wildlife photographer, spent a month alone in the extreme Artic Tundra at the very north of Canada to photograph the rare and endangered animal –known as well as the Ghost of the Tundra. About 300 km away from the nearest Inuit Village, the animals have no contact with humans and so, haven’t learnt to fear them. After a week of searching at -47°C, a pack of nine wolves eventually appeared, curious to see what the photographer was up to. They stayed near him for thirty minutes and Munier took 3000 exceptional images.

“I was just about to go to sleep when I spotted some grey and yellow points about 5 km away moving in my direction. A few minutes later, they were right next to my tent, circling it and I photographed them for the half an hour they stayed with me. The greatest moment of my career.”

source | official site

[crazycritterlife]

These photos are amazing. Look at those paws! These wolves are so unique looking

[lennycarl08]

Today’s Catch: Halibut by lennycarl08 Via Flickr: This is a first for me. Normallly they go for striped bass. Point Molate, California

[funkysafari-deactivated20260131]

RIVER CROSSING - In Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park, a male orangutan crosses a river. Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan stood in chest-high water to take this picture. He explains that orangutans typically avoid water, especally in situations like this one, where crocodiles may be present. But, he says, “rapid palm oil farming has depleted their habitat and when pushed to the edge these intelligent creatures have learnt to adapt to the changing landscape." BY JAYAPRAKASH JOGHEE BOJAN

[big-catsss]

Elaine Kruer was able to watch a mother carefully move her cubs to their den. The process was very special and a reminder of how gentle nature can be. “When her grip began to slip, rather than tighten her grasp, she would lay them down and use her paws to reposition them ever so carefully,” says Elaine. (source)

[drawingden]

Birds by CoyoteMange

[witlovesyou]

Big sister drops to her knees to show affection to newborn Photo by James Irwin

[africanwildlifefoundation]

If wealth were measured in biodiversity, the forests of the Congo Basin would be rich indeed.

We’ve partnered with local communities and USAID to ensure this ecological treasure remains intact. See what our combined efforts have been able to accomplish: http://bit.ly/congo-riches

[smokkery]

PLANET EARTH II: Episode 1 - Islands

[anungulateaday]

Tibetan Antelope [Pantholops hodgsonii]

[crazycritterlife]

Dylan, the young aplomado falcon, learning to hunt quail in Arizona during the Arizona Falconry Association annual field meet

[earthlynation-blog]

Flying Fox. Photo by Michael Cleary.

[zoologyillustration]

Lion populations have declined drastically in the past 75 years due to habitat loss and poaching. The wild African Lion is predicted to go extinct by 2020 unless political action is taken and organizations that work to protect lions receive sufficient funding. Check out the Ewaso Lions, www.ewasolions.org, for more information.

[fyeahwildlife]

Looking for members

Hello everyone! I am so sorry that this blog has been so inactive the past couple of years. Life has been hectic and I simply haven’t had the time to dedicate to this blog. I will continue to be busy in the next couple of years because I will be attending graduate school for environmental anthropology.

If you are interested in helping contribute to this blog - be it original posts or reblogs - please message me!