#jasper doest

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Dollie feasts on dinner leftovers in the kitchen, in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands (COVID-19 pandemic), 2020 - by Jasper Doest (1979), Dutch

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Jasper Doest, The Soulful World of Snow Monkeys (2016)

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A young forest elephant trots along with its parents in Lopé National Park, Gabon, along one of many paths that generations of the animals have cut through the fruit-rich rainforest. Elephants pass on the knowledge of what to forage, where to find it, and when it’s likely to be ripe. Researchers have discovered that Earth’s warming temperatures could be lowering the fruit yield of many species of trees at the park, which in turn seems to be causing some forest elephants to go hungry. (From “How a warming climate threatens Africa’s endangered forest elephants,” May 2022.)

PHOTOGRAPH BY JASPER DOEST

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A forest elephant tries to defend itself after it was hit by a train in Gabon’s Lopé National Park, Central Africa, 2023 - by Jasper Doest (1979), Dutch

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A slow shutter speed captures flight patterns of cone-headed bush crickets, commonly called grasshoppers or “nsenene” in Uganda.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JASPER DOEST

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Crickets

PHOTOGRAPH BY JASPER DOEST

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Kids, meet your new teacher: When photographer Jasper Doest’s veterinarian cousin Odette rescued Flamingo Bob in 2016, she realized his injuries were too severe to return to the wild. Instead, Bob helps out with conservation education at local schools in Curaçao. Says Doest: “Turns out Bob's the best teacher—all the kids love him. When the flamingo starts flapping his wings, children start to flap their arms, and so do grown-ups. They are mesmerized by his beauty.”

PHOTOGRAPH BY @JASPERDOEST

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📷 Jasper Doest

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