from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
A maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
Joel carefully photographs a dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Cole Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
A dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
A sloth bear (Ursus ursinus) tentatively steps onto the white background at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
A sloth bear (Ursus ursinus) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
Edward’s pheasants (male and hen) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
A giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
Photographing spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Cole Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #2: Labor of Love Posted January 6, 2012
Day’s end at the Sunset Zoo.
Photograph by Cole Sartore
from Dispatch #3: The Chimp Incident Posted January 9, 2012
Hazina the chimp stuck just her head and arms into the enclosure very slowly and cautiously.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #3: The Chimp Incident Posted January 9, 2012
With a single, swift wave of her arm, she ripped the 7-by-12-foot background
right off the wall and floor like it was nothing.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #3: The Chimp Incident Posted January 9, 2012
She then pulled the entire backdrop through the tiny entrance doorway.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #3: The Chimp Incident Posted January 9, 2012
The only shots I got were of her destroying the set.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #3: The Chimp Incident Posted January 9, 2012
Moments later, Hazina poked her head back in to survey her handiwork.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
A white-nosed coati at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
Silkie showgirl chickens at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
Kenya, the Fort Worth Zoo’s serval cat, has been trained as an education and outreach animal.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
A serval cat at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
A gray banded king snake (Lampropeltis alterna) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
A tawny frogmouth at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
A Resinger’s tree monitor (Varanus resingeri) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
A Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
Close-up of a Texas indigo snake’s scales (Drymarchon corais erebennus) at the Forth Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #4: My Visit With the Showgirls Posted January 10, 2012
Silkie showgirl chickens at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #5: The Straight Poop Posted January 11, 2012
We got ten minutes with the spotted hyenas at Sunset Zoo before they trashed our background.
That was nine minutes and thirty seconds more than I expected.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #5: The Straight Poop Posted January 11, 2012
Keepers Steve Hammack and John Kast helped me with the
venomous snakes at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Photograph by Cole Sartore
from Dispatch #6: Meet the Mole Rats Posted January 12, 2012
Damaraland mole rats (Cryptomys damarensis) at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #7: Martha’s Legacy Posted January 18, 2012
Martha, a mounted passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). The last of her species.
She died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
A King cobra slithers in for an extreme close-up at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
Hawk-headed parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus) at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
West Usambara two-horned chameleon, (Kinyongia multituberculata) at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
Superb bird-of-paradise (Lophorina superba) at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
Prevost’s squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
Cole Sartore holds onto the backdrop as we head out of the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #8: Funding the Wild Posted January 19, 2012
Coquerel’s sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) at the Houston Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Some animal species, like these gray gibbons, are being phased out due to
insufficient numbers for breeding.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Gray gibbons (Hylobates muelleri) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Red ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata rubra) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Keeper Erik Heinonen acquaints the Miller Park Zoo’s bobcat (Lynx rufus)
with my seamless white backdrop.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Red-fronted macaw (Ara rubrogenys) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Gold-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas) at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #9: Phase Out Posted January 23, 2012
Thai bamboo rat snake (Oreocryptophis porphyracea coxi) at the
Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #10: On to Baltimore Posted January 24, 2012
Budgett’s frog (Lepidobatrachus laevis) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #10: On to Baltimore Posted January 24, 2012
Departing wood frog (Rana sylvatica) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #10: On to Baltimore Posted January 24, 2012
Big-headed Amazon river turtle (Peltocephalus dumerilianus) at the
National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #10: On to Baltimore Posted January 24, 2012
Prehensile-tailed iguana (Polychrus marmoratus) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #10: On to Baltimore Posted January 24, 2012
Australian prickly stick (Exatosoma tiaratum) in two colors at the
National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #10: On to Baltimore Posted January 24, 2012
An El Cope morph of the green-and-black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) at the
National Aquarium in Baltimore.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #10: On to Baltimore Posted January 24, 2012
Atlantic or common puffin (Fratercula artica) in winter plumage at the
National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #11: Meet Mr. Big Posted January 25, 2012
“Mr. Big,” a male African lion at the Omaha Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #12: The Rehabbers Posted January 26, 2012
A Swainson’s hawk at Raptor Recovery Nebraska.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #12: The Rehabbers Posted January 26, 2012
Betsy Finch holds a Swainson’s hawk at Raptor Recovery Nebraska.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #12: The Rehabbers Posted January 26, 2012
A young female snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) at Raptor Recovery Nebraska.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #12: The Rehabbers Posted January 26, 2012
An opossum (Didelphis virginiana) with babies at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #12: The Rehabbers Posted January 26, 2012
A striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) at The Wildlife Center in Espanola, New Mexico.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #13: Coming Home Posted January 27, 2012
A lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #13: Coming Home Posted January 27, 2012
A southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #13: Coming Home Posted January 27, 2012
A Dumeril’s monitor (Varanus dumerilii) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
from Dispatch #13: Coming Home Posted January 27, 2012
Caribbean flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
Photograph by Joel Sartore
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