Pictures of fauna [last update 2011-12-25]

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Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2012. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.

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Sunbird on an orchid (Kenya) Female lion eating a wildebeest (Tanzania) Cheetah (Tanzania) Cheetah (Tanzania) Lioness with zebra kill (Tanzania) Vervet monkey feeding on flowers (Tanzania) Juvenile common puff adder (Bitis arietans) (Tanzania) Plains zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) (Tanzania) Lioness with zebra kill (Tanzania) Vervet monkeys playing in a tree (Tanzania) Orphaned elephant drinking milk at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (Kenya) African Wattled Plover (Vanellus senegallus) (Kenya) Blue morpho butterfly Rock hyrax feeding on alpine moss on Mt. Kenya (Kenya) Lion cubs (Tanzania) Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) Topi (Damaliscus lunatus) (Kenya) Young gazelle (Kenya) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) (Tanzania) Abdim's Storks (Ciconia abdimii) atop a tree (Tanzania) Male ostrich defending chicks (Tanzania) Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx) (Tanzania) Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) (Tanzania) Female lion eating a wildebeest (Tanzania) Vervet Monkeys getting friendly (Tanzania) Toad in Lokichoggio (Kenya) Swifts (unidentified) in Sabah, Malaysia African elephant (Tanzania) Gecko in lodge Female black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) with offspring (Tanzania) Large group of banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) (Tanzania) African elephants (Tanzania) Female lion in savanna grass (Tanzania) Female lion with wildebeest kill (Tanzania) Grunt Sculpin Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) feeding on a lion kill (Tanzania) Waxy monkey frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagei) Group of helmeted guineafowl (Kenya) Abdim's Stork (Ciconia abdimii) (Tanzania) Southern yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) Helmeted guineafowl looking for grubs (Kenya) Close-up of infant Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) in Chobe National Park Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) (Tanzania) Orphaned elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (Kenya) Drinking elephant (Tanzania) Warthog (Kenya) African elephant (Loxodonta africana) feeding in Zambezi River Thompson's gazelles running (Kenya) Plains zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) (Tanzania) Black caiman Grey kestrel (Falco ardosiaceus) (Kenya) Male ostrich (Tanzania) Hippo standing among Hippopotamodes (Kenya) Sunbird (Kenya) Nile crocodiles on a beach (Kenya) Family of warthogs (Kenya) Cattle egrets on backs of hippos (Tanzania) Dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion species) (Tanzania) Green Basilisk Lizard (Basiliscus plumifrons) Masai or Kilimanjaro Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) (Tanzania) Orangutan bridge over the Kinabantagan River to connect fragmented populations in Sabah, Malaysia Black Kite (Milvus migrans) taking flight (Tanzania) Crimson-breasted shrike (Laniarius atrococcineus) Mother warthog with piglets (Kenya) Baboons atop a rock outcropping (Tanzania) Borneo Eared Frog or file-eared treefrog (Polypedates otilophus) Gray heron; cattle egret; sacred ibis; yellow billed stork (Tanzania) Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu; Uraeginthus bengalus (Kenya) African fish eagle atop a tree (Tanzania) Brown-headed parrot baby (Poicephalus cryptoxanthus) Lion scratching itself in the morning sun (Kenya) Lioness with zebra kill (Tanzania) Verreaux's Eagle Owl (Bubo lacteus) (Tanzania) Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) (Tanzania) Mother topi with calf (Kenya) Warbler in an African sausage tree (Kigelia pinnata) (Kenya) Kilimanjaro Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) (Tanzania) Fischer's Lovebird (Agapornis personata fischeri) (Tanzania) Female lion with wildebeest kill (Tanzania) Young hippo (Kenya) Mata mata (binomial name Chelus fimbriatus Cape buffalo with a Red-billed Oxpecker (Tanzania) The hairy ear of the Bornean rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), the hairiest of the world's rhinos. This rhino, Tam, is a captive individual representing hopes for ex-situ breeding of the Critically Endangered subspecies of the Sumatran rhino (also Critically Endangered). Female lion guarding her kill (Tanzania) Elephants at sun down (Kenya) Stripped Mandarinfish (Pterosynchiropus splendidus) Kirk's Dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) (Tanzania) fauna: Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14 | Page 15 | Page 16 | Page 17 | Page 18 | Page 19 | Page 20 | Page 21 | Page 22