Curiosity

2011.07.19

The baby Ring-Tailed Lemurs were absolutely adorable!

I love the expressions of these two - the one in front looks rather studious while the one behind reminds me of Basil Fawlty!

Peering out from a pile of black and white fluff!

This Red-Bellied Lemur was very happy to pose for portraits.

This chap is a Crowned Sifaka - he's a natural poser!

And a bit of thinker too....

He found Sharon's wheelchair very tasty!

Sharon took this photo - this little fellow left lots of pawprints on my lens hood.

I didn't have much luck with the meerkats this time. This one posed in front of a distracting patch of greenery so I thought I'd try a black and white conversion.

We came across five of these tiny Moorhen chicks - I would imagine they can only be a day or two old. They were distinctly top heavy and kept falling over!

One of the Oriental Short Clawed Otters who, very conveniently, posed for me in some lovely dappled light.

The Black Tailed Prairie Dogs have been very busy this spring - there were babies everywhere. This one kept popping up out of his burrow to check if I was still watching!

I visited the Cotswold Wildlife Park again today with my friend Sharon. Sharon broke her leg at the end of May and she was itching to get out with her camera again after so long being cooped up at home. She can only walk short distances at the moment with crutches so to get round this we borrowed one of the park’s wheelchairs which meant we were able to cover the whole site, even if we did both get rather tired arms pushing and wheeling it over grass and gravel. Photographically, we had the most success in the park’s walk through lemur enclosure. One of the keepers did warn us that the animals would be curious about the wheelchair and she wasn’t joking. One of the baby ring tailed lemurs thoroughly explored underneath it and one of the others gave the wheels a jolly good licking! They were obviously in an exploratory mood today as they were also fascinated by my lens hood and Sharon caught a priceless shot of one of the babies having a feel of it and leaving some tiny little pawprints behind!

This extraordinary animal! Expression with the photo number three , this look : " do you have a good look", "it has different values"! The seventh, the Rodin thinker! Beautiful portrait gallery!

tikine3gogours · 2011-07-20: 10:38

fabulous set and I love how your friend caught your surprised delightful expression in 9.
Great captions with them.

MoMac · 2011-07-20: 11:43

Super series :)

yellodog · 2011-07-20: 12:17

Fantastic set

Lynda · 2011-07-20: 12:55

What a really wonderful set Helen. What faces and expressions you have captured! #7 is a real prize winner!!!!

danrav · 2011-07-20: 13:03

Very cool set - #7 is hilarious - looks so staged.

davids · 2011-07-20: 13:07

Excellent! and I agree with David, 7 is hilarious !

josy63 · 2011-07-20: 13:34

Stunning, such expressive pictures! :)

MsCumberdale · 2011-07-20: 13:41

Love 3,7 and 13. The expressions are great!

snowpie · 2011-07-20: 14:35

What a coincidence, I'm posting Cotswold wildlife park pics tomorrow... No 7 went straight to my faves and I love the moorhen chick, he is adorable as are the lemurs.. and the prairie puppies we got some cute pics of them too...

Annbramwell · 2011-07-20: 15:10

... didn't kill them... ;) Love the Lemurs :)
Their eyes remind me of my kitten Trilli...

????? · 2011-07-20: 17:25

What a great collection of lovely little critters, Helen! I love #3 - fantastic catch with interesting focus!!!

lookagain · 2011-07-20: 18:44

Great set! #3 is my favorite!

lukesmom · 2011-07-20: 21:25

I love that tenth one! The pictures remind me of that movie, Madagascar, and the song the lemurs there would sing "I like to move it, move it!!" Heehee. Awesome set Helen :)

????? · 2011-07-20: 22:22