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Wanted to post a few of the fun shots that came from 2013. Has been a good year and I’ve loved my job at the San Antonio Zoo.
The Amazon Basin was good to me in 2013 across a couple of visits. Here are a few photographic results:
Amazon Manatee (Trichechus inunguis)
Amazon Manatee (Trichechus inunguis)
Bald uakari (Cacajao calvus rubicunda)
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
Amazon River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)
Paiche (Arapaima gigas)
Paiche (Arapaima gigas)
Amazonian Palm Salamander (Bolitoglossa cf altamazonica)
Ross Allen's Treefrog (Dendropsophus rossalleni)
Eye-ringed Bushfrog (Hypsiboas cinerascens)
Silver-eyed Monkeyfrog (Phyllomedusa vaillantii)
A female Amazon Leaf Toad (Rhinella margaritifera)
An Alligator Bug (Fulgora laternaria)
Ant Mimicing Treehopper (Family Membracidae) (Cyphonia clavata)
Mantispid
Mantispid
Amazonian River Turtle (Podocnemis expansa)
An Amazon Pigmy Gecko (Pseudogonatodes guianensis)
Rainbow Boa (Epicrates cenchria)
From Chile:
Chilean Opilionid
Chilean Opilionid
Chilean Opilionid
Field work in the US:
A preserved Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) at California Academy of Sciences
Turtle survey at Comal Springs, TX
Turtle survey at Comal Springs, TX
Comal Springs, New Braunfels, TX
Groundwater Isopod (Caecidotea sp.) brooding eggs, Franklin Co, TN
A "Frosted" Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) from Marion Co., TN
A Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) from Marion Co., TN
A strange amphibian to run into deep within a Tennessee cave.....
Mexican Beavertail Fairy Shrimp (Thamnocephalus mexicanus), New Mexico
A leech feeding on a tadpole tail in Texas
Fun @ the San Antonio Zoo
Rowley's Palm Pit Viper (Bothriechis rowleyi) from Mexico, photographed at the San Antonio Zoo
Chuxiong Fire Belly Newt (Cynops cyanurus) @ the San Antonio Zoo
Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) @ the San Antonio Zoo
More:
Amazonian Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla craspedopus)
Persian Carpet Flower (Edithcolea grandis)
Carrion flower (Stapelia gettleffi)
December 29th, 2013 at 2:23 am
Awesome encounters for you in 2013… thanks for sharing, Dante.
December 29th, 2013 at 7:40 am
Great shots, Dante, as always. More critters waiting for you down here for 2014.
December 29th, 2013 at 9:53 am
A lot of great photos, Dante! You sure stuff a lot of travel into a year. Thanks for sharing these with us!
December 29th, 2013 at 10:21 am
Thanks for the comments guys; it was a good year!
Cheers Dante
December 29th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
I really like this blog. You are shooting some strange stuff. I still think you may have an unhealthy thing going with blind fish but I wouldn’t want you to stop taking your photographs. I really like your deep sea fish work. Keep it up!
Gracias, Juan Castillo
December 29th, 2013 at 2:54 pm
wonderful, wonderful photos, Dante, beautifully composed and they so nicely capture the animal.
December 29th, 2013 at 3:29 pm
Hi Juan-I agree, I am a bit of a freak in the way I go after photographing a species of blind cave fish that I haven’t seen before. Thanks so much for all of the comments!
Cheers & Thanks-Dante
December 29th, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Thanks so much Kathryn!
December 29th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Have you thought of doing a book?
December 29th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Hi KC-I am working on finishing up a photographic biodiversity book that will be published through Johns Hopkins University Press. It features wildlife that spends most of their lives in the dark with chapters on deep sea, cave, nocturnal, and burrowing wildlife. Should be available this time next year.
Cheers & Thanks-Dante
December 29th, 2013 at 4:58 pm
Dante,
Caught your talk in Albuquerque and loved it. Your energy is amazing. Love these photographs but love the enthusiasm you bring even more. Please keep it up.
Hug-Lauren
December 29th, 2013 at 7:08 pm
Bet you never thought you’d be doing all of this cool shit when we were hanging out in high school!
You rock.
Keep it up Cutie! Linda
December 30th, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Hi Linda,
Great to hear from you. Yeah, I’m a lucky guy, no doubt.
Thanks for connecting here.
Cheers-Dante
December 30th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Lauren,
Thanks so much for the kind words. I’m glad you liked the talk and I hope I expanded an appreciation for biodiversity in the group.
Kindest Regards-Dante
December 30th, 2013 at 11:30 pm
Found you from the Compound Eye. Great shots.
December 31st, 2013 at 8:47 pm
Wow
January 1st, 2014 at 12:40 am
Vous avez un cadeau
January 4th, 2014 at 2:17 pm
Great selection of photos. I really like the Ross Allen’s Treefrog shot, but since I am entomologist I will have to go with Chilean opilionid on black as my favorite.
January 5th, 2014 at 8:47 pm
MANATEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I so love them
January 10th, 2014 at 8:12 am
Congratulations on having one of the most sophisticated blogs Ive come across in some time! Its just incredible how much you can take away from something simply because of how visually beautiful it is. You’ve put together a great blog space –great graphics, videos, layout. This is definitely a must-see blog! BTW-found it via the SA site
January 12th, 2014 at 10:21 am
Hello this is Nathan from Honey Creek Elementary. Remember, you helped me with my school project. It was about Darwin’s Frog.
I like the pictures that you have posted lately especially the Manatees, also the manatees are my favorite animal to take notes on! What’s the latest on Darwin’s Frog?
Plsss answer back.
Sincerely,
Nathan
January 12th, 2014 at 11:53 am
Hi Nathan,
So nice to hear from you! The Darwin’s Frogs at the National Zoo of Chile are doing quite well. We have many baby frogs that were produced in our lab that are growing up right now. We are also working with other endangered amphibian species like False Toads and the Mehuin Green Frog. If you look through the posts that I have made, you can see images of all of them. In fact, we were just in Chile working in the field and I am working to make a new post with images of the field work.
Thank you for your message, Nathan!
Cheers-Dante
March 6th, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Having read this I thought it was extremely enlightening. I appreciate you taking the time and energy to put this article together. I once again find myself personally spending way too much time both reading and commenting. But so what, it was still worth it.
Best CMC
October 19th, 2014 at 10:28 pm
I dugg some of you post as I cerebrated they were very beneficial invaluable
October 30th, 2014 at 10:36 am
Amazon turtle with HUGE nostrils!
Squat isopod with many (I count 28 at least) small eggs. How about for a more svelte / thin more troglomorphic cave isopod?
The Manatee by Douglas Florian
The manatee is not a minivan, it’s heavy as a mini-van
It has a bristly, big mustache, and paddle tail to make a splash.
The manatee does not take tea, it swallows plants beneath the sea.
It eats os much thaat it may seem at times to be a mana-=team.
January 25th, 2015 at 11:34 am
Thanks Tom!
April 9th, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Wherever you go, I’ll follow…Congrats!!!!