1. RARE PORTRAITS.
- Author
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WEXLER, MARK
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WILDLIFE photography , *RARE mammals , *ENDANGERED species , *WILDLIFE photographers - Abstract
The article discusses the lengths that wildlife photographers will go to capture images of some of the world's rarest animals. Topics include a brief profile of U.S. wildlife photographer Kevin Schafer, including Schafer's motivation for working under inhospitable conditions to photograph rare animals, the number of species estimated to be endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and several photographs of rare mammals, including the critically endangered black rhinoceros, taken by Mitsuaki Iwago, the critically endangered Celebes crested macaque, taken by Theo Allofs, and the endangered Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, taken by Xi Zhinong.
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- 2011