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Photo of the Day #953: Collared brown lemur baby
Posted by Brian Switek on July 5, 2010 A collared brown lemur (Eulemur collaris) baby, photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
Photo of the Day #950: Gorilla
Posted by Brian Switek on June 29, 2010 A lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
Small Fossil Mammals Reveal Wounds Left by the Last Great Extinction
Posted by Brian Switek on June 16, 2010 A golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis), photographed in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. Though abundant at the Samwell Cave Popcorn Dome, California site during the Late Pleistocene, its numbers in the area decline at the beginning of the present Holocene epoch. “One of the penalties of an ecological education”, the naturalist Aldo Leopold once wrote,…
Pruning the Primate Family Tree
Posted by Brian Switek on June 10, 2010 “Dinah”, a young female gorilla kept at the Bronx Zoo in 1914. From the Zoological Society Bulletin. Frustrated by the failure of gorillas to thrive in captivity, in 1914 the Bronx Zoo’s director William Hornaday lamented “There is not the slightest reason to hope that an adult gorilla, either male or female, ever will be…
Photo of the Day #939: Pronghorn
Posted by Brian Switek on June 7, 2010 A female pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), photographed at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
Photo of the Day #938: Mule deer
Posted by Brian Switek on June 6, 2010 Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), photographed at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
Photo of the Day #936: Utah prairie dog
Posted by Brian Switek on June 4, 2010 A Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens), photographed in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
Photo of the Day #932: Gorilla
Posted by Brian Switek on May 31, 2010 A young lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
Photo of the Day #930: Okapi
Posted by Brian Switek on May 29, 2010 An okapi ((Okapia johnstoni), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
Photo of the Day #929: Ebony langur
Posted by Brian Switek on May 28, 2010 An ebony langur (Trachypithecus auratus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.