Meerkats

JTHphoto · Jan 1, 2006

I took my nephew to the zoo yesterday, and we had fun watching these little guys - Meerkats like Timon from "the lion king" movies...

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woodsac · Jan 1, 2006

Good shots.
These things always look so inquisitive!

Alexandra · Jan 1, 2006

These are awesome, Jason! #5 is unbelievable. It looks as though you shot them in the wild.

M @ k o · Jan 2, 2006

LOL! Nice shots JTH !

charizzi · Jan 2, 2006

#4 is my fav!!

They're sooooo cute!!! Great shots!!

I love them!

LaFoto · Jan 2, 2006

Meerkats are the cutest, aren't they? They have these big round, inquisitive eyes, and their behaviour is so humanlike, with them sitting on their hindlegs only for most of the time. You could interpret all sorts of emotions in them, if you wanted. Most of them are on the funny side

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I like photo 4 and photo 6 really much for their focus and DOF and the last because it takes us all so close to the cute little meerkat!

Nice.

Lensmeister · Jan 2, 2006

Great shots ... I am looking for Pumbah .......

I like looking at meerkats they always seem active and intellegent.

Thanks for sharing these photos.

JTHphoto · Jan 2, 2006

Alexandra said:
These are awesome, Jason! #5 is unbelievable. It looks as though you shot them in the wild.

This is actually a great zoo for that, they do a lot of preservation of endagered species and many of the exhibits are free of fences and cages and such.

Lensmeister said:
Great shots ... I am looking for Pumbah .......

I think I have a shot of him too, he was there

i have a ton of photos & i'm sure you will be seeing them soon, this was just one species...

thanks for the wonderful comments everybody, you guys rock!

JonMikal · Jan 2, 2006

i love this little critter...one of my favorite NG articles. IMO, these are every bit as good as the magazine posted! :thumbup:

JTHphoto · Jan 3, 2006

wow, thanks JM, that's quite the compliment! i think i saw that issue while i was waiting in a doctor's office a while back

Raymond J Barlow · Jan 3, 2006

yup, awesome shots JTH, looking fwd to more.. and a visit to your zoo looks like fun for us some day! We will do a round trip through many US states, and stop by all the zoos, and sanctuarys! gonna start shopping for a new camper in the spring I think! (after the sigmonster)

JTHphoto · Jan 4, 2006

thanks, ray, this is a fun one - not the biggest, only 40 acres, but the animals are always active and you can get pretty close to most of them...

Chiller · Jan 4, 2006

Great shots man... These critters are a riot to watch. Nice captures.

CaptainTom · Jan 4, 2006

Maybe I missed something here.
Which zoo were you at ?

Phoenix
Tuscon
Flagstaff

JTHphoto · Jan 5, 2006

Thanks Chiller!

CaptainTom said:
Maybe I missed something here.
Which zoo were you at ?

Phoenix
Tuscon
Flagstaff

Captain, these were taken at the Wildlife World Zoo in Phoenix. It is a privately owned zoo --> http://www.wildlifeworld.com/

Some other good ones in Arizona besides The Phoenix Zoo are Out of Africa Wildlife Park which just moved up to Camp Verde (http://www.outofafricapark.com/) and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson (http://www.desertmuseum.org/).