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Image by jonmartin ()
A pair of Francois' Leaf Monkeys (aka. langurs) at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. This endangered langur lives from southwestern China to northeastern Vietnam, the total number in the wild is estimated at less than 2000. Two of about 60 langurs in captivity in the US, these guys were lounging in one of the displays in the primate house.
The light was very low, and to get up close I had my 2x extender on; the result was having to shoot on a very slow shutter while really cranking up the ISO. All in all a prime primate portrait I've had lying for a while not knowing what was wrong, until I flipped the B&W switch (the background is originally a pale blue wall, and the branch steals too much attention).
EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM +2x | 1/60 sec | 385 mm | f/5.6 | ISO 6400 | Normal mode | 0 EV
Adjutant Stork - Leptoptilos javanicus
Image by cprogrammer
Adjutant Stork
They build their nests high on the limbs of the majestic silk cotton tree. But in recent years, a growing number of hatchlings have been falling out of the nests. In Assam, people are using nets tried around tree trunks to save the babies. There are only about 1,000 greater adjutant storks left in the world, and about 80 percent of them are in the Indian state of Assam. Greater adjutant storks are a highly endangered species that requires complete protection wherever it occurs, in breeding and non-breeding periods.
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Image by BethanyWeeks
African Lion (Panthera leo)
It is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with an endangered remnant population in Gir Forest National Park in India, having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a possibly irreversible population decline of thirty to fifty percent over the past two decades in its African range. Lion populations are untenable outside designated reserves and national parks. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are currently the greatest causes of concern. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_lion
Woodland Park Zoo
June 19, 2011
