DAILY PHOTO: Barachukki Monkey

Taken in July of 2014 at Bharachukki Falls in Karnataka

DAILY PHOTO: Zoo Creatures of Mysore





















Taken in November of 2013 in Mysore at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens

DAILY PHOTO: White Deer of Mysore Zoo

Taken in November of 2013 in Mysore

DAILY PHOTO: Napping Hippos

Taken in April of 2017 on the Chobe River between Botswana and Namibia

 

DAILY PHOTO: Why the Zebra Has Stripes

Taken in April of 2017 in Mosi Oa Tunya (Victoria Falls) National Park

 

Chobe National Park, Botswana

 

I heard a person — looking at a solitary zebra — say, “That is horrible camouflage! How is it not extinct?”

The answer is found by looking at zebras in a group. When they run in a herd, it becomes impossible for a predator to distinguish one from another. Heads merge with hindquarters merging with a shoulder.  They become an amorphous monochromatic cluster with nothing to bite onto.

 

 

DAILY PHOTO: Curious Giraffe

Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

DAILY PHOTO: Lilac-Breasted Roller

Taken in April of 2017 in Botswana

 


DAILY PHOTO: Out on a Limb

Taken in April of 2017 from the Chobe River on the Botswanan side

 

I believe this is an African Water Monitor, but I’m a neophyte naturalist.

DAILY PHOTO: Urchins

Taken on December of 2017 in San Juan, Siquijor Island

 

Panagsama Beach near Moalboal, Cebu Island

 

Panagsama Beach near Moalboal, Cebu Island

DAILY PHOTO: Butterflies of Bohol

Taken in December of 2017 on Bohol Island in the Philippines