With tickets for The Best Job in the World, I got the the NG museum early to explore this exhibit. I LOVED it, and so it results in a photo heavy post. The photos aren't of the best quality, but I wanted photos of the photos I enjoyed. So, here they are! :)
These photos were taken by photographers, Michael Nichols (Lions), Steve Winter (Tigers), and Paul Nicklen (Bears).
The first three are my favourite lion, tiger and bear photos. :
A female keeps her infant cubs hidden in a den during their first few weeks. She introduces them to the pride when they are ready for the competitive jumble of older cubs.
In one of the last places where wild tigers are thought to thrive, a Bengal tiger pauses in a river to listen to another tiger roar. Here on the Bay of Bengal, vast mangrove forests in the Sunderbans of India and Bangladesh provide rich habitat for the adaptable cats
For Nicklen this powerful image evokes the words of Phil Timpany: "Nothing good will ever come from killing a grizzly bear."
Male lions make funny expressions! :D :
C-Boy mates with a lioness from the Kimbumu pride a day after mating with another Kimbumu female. The black-and-white photographs were made with infrared light to minimize the disruption to the lions.
A male lion often asserts his prerogatives. C-Boy warns off waiting Vumbi lionesses and cubs with low growls as he feasts on zebra. Their turn will come when he is finished.
I learnt something new! :
Hildur, a resident male of a few prides, frequently travels long distances to visit the Simba East pride. A coalition of males that controls two prides must maintain vigilance over both.
These two cubs, one six months and the other three, rest under a tree. The older cub should be weaned but continues to nurse, stealing milk from the younger cubs
Naughty Big Guy! :
Tigers are my favourite!
I really liked this photos :) :
A camera trap positioned at a secluded water hole in Bandhavgarh National Park captures a tiger cooling off. For narrow locations such as this one, tigers usually back in to the water to maintain watch on their surroundings.
He looks suspended, no? :
A remote camera bolted to a tree 15 feet off the ground captured this image of a tiger raking long scratches into the bark. Tigers scratch, spray, scrape, rub, roll, and roar to advertise their presence, to find a mate or avoid surprise encounters that could prove fatal.
I love camouflage in the wild! :
A tiger moves nearly invisibly through tall reeds. Though humans tend to think of tigers as a jungle species, they are perfectly adapted to grasslands. Their striped camouflage raises the odds of successful kill.
And another thing I learned. :
A white bearded mane, darker rust-colored coat, and thicker black stripes set the Sumatran tiger apart from other subspecies. Though recent surveys show the population to be more wide-spread than previously thought, these tigers are extremely elusive. this nighttime camera trap image is one of only a handful of existing images of a Sumatran tiger in the wild.
CUBS!!! or CUB. :D :
When Winter learned a tiger he had previously photographed had given birth, he returned to document the two-month-old cubs. The den was located in a secluded gorge the Winter could only access riding an elephant through the valley below. He glimpsed the youngsters just twice.
A wary three-month-old cub briefly investigates the photographer's intrusion before ducking behind his resting mother. This tigress gave birth in the same remote cave where she was born
I love the red of the salmon against the white and green. :
In the moss-draped rain forest, a spirit bear eats a salmon to fatten up for hibernation. In certain areas of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, as many as one in ten black bears are white.
A female bear navigates the dense forest for a meal of crab apples. The fruit is an important source of nutrition. Bears use all levels of their habitat - from the intertidalzone, estuaries, and rivers to the forests and mountains.
Silly, greedy Polar! :
A large male polar bear feeds on the ribs of a bearded seal in Leifdefjorden, Norway. He was so full that he was regurgitating out of one side of his mouth while continuing to eat with the other.
I love this story! :
"This is the moment I met the most amazing bear. After I had spent months coming up empty, this large male appeared and stayed with for two days, allowing me to live a childhood dream of walking through the forest with one of the planet's rarest animals."
Two large males - a black bear and a spirit bear - began their encounter by staring each other down. Moments later, they locked in a roaring embrace of claws and teeth in a battle for a prime fishing spot.
A protective mother rests with her cub while scanning the Manitoba landscape for danger from male polar bears.
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