Posted on 11/01/2008 9:10:35 AM PDT by JoeProBono
An aptly named winner of the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest, "Deadlock" was captured in the dead of night in a Belizean rain forest.
U.K.-based David Maitland observed from midnight to 3 a.m. as a rare Morelet's tree frog doggedly refused to become supper for a cat-eyed snake-
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
I swear I have seen that on at T-shirt........
Say what? The photographer didn’t bother to stick around to see who came out the winner? Go, Frog!
French photographer Cyril Ruoso pursued the screams of hunting chimpanzees through dense forests in Tanzania's Gombe National Park--and captured this winner of the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, announced October 30, 2008, in London.
The central and dominant figure, unwilling to share his half of a wild pig, is a 31-year-old male known as Frodo, lead hunter of his group
Since he’s rare, I’d have had to lend the frog another hand.
Never give up, never surrender!
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He was in Haiwire hiding Obandana's burp surftificate!
Sounds like it's lost more fights than it's won......
That is starting to turn into one of my absolute favorite movies.
Finally ... a concrete example of that old saying.
Man, I'm so hungry I could eat the a$$ end of a pig.
Thanks for the post.
A couple of those are absolutely incredible!
Man and whale size each other up in the winner of the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition's underwater category, announced on October 30, 2008.
The photo was taken by Brian Skerry on assignment for National Geographic magazine off New Zealand's Auckland Islands, where a "pristine population" of southern right whales, in Skerry's words, was discovered only ten years ago (more right whale photos by Skerry).
The U.S. photographer said he had deployed his assistant Mauricio Handler (pictured) as bait for this friendly 70-ton giant.
Obama and Biden????
“Obama and Biden????”
HA!
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