Mimicry

Gallery: WildlifePosted September 14, 2014427 views6 comments

Grown-up monkeys usually act pretty 'cool' and just walk past you as if they haven't even noticed you. But young monkeys are simply fascinated by strange things (like humans ;-)) and they hang around, look…and mimic…One of the participants to the photo safari pulled faces and made large eyes…and the baboon did his monkey-see-monkey-do-thing. Eating leaves and swaying from branch to branch, however, was something we DIDN'T show him

Lake Manyara, Tanzania.

f/4
420mm
1/500s
800 ISO
Nikon D800E

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6 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on September 14, 2014 at 3:34 PM

Nicely caught of the unusual pose. Good detail and a super background.

Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments

Comment posted by Max Waugh on September 14, 2014 at 8:03 PM

Fun pose and really great light. With that catch light and background, it almost looks like a studio setup.

Max

Registered on September 26, 2008, 428 Posts, 2329 Comments

Comment posted by Ajit Huilgol on September 15, 2014 at 1:49 AM

Maybe, he was trying to see whether 'man-see-man-do' thing would work! He obviously thought humans are not very intelligent, as no one tried to imitate him

Registered on December 19, 2008, 302 Posts, 2055 Comments

Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on September 16, 2014 at 4:56 AM

Lovely colours, pose and soft light Ingrid.
I would consider a slight crop from the top?

Registered on March 22, 2011, 385 Posts, 2068 Comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on September 16, 2014 at 1:17 PM

Hi Ingrid,

I agree with the others that the pose is great - for me the two things that really stand out are the magical eyes and the leaf in the mouth. While I somewhat like how the monkey seems almost be playing "hide-and-seek" with the frame of the image (or, alternately "popping into" the shot), I think I agree with Morkel on a crop from the top.

Cheers and thanks for sharing this one...

Brad

Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments

Comment posted by Lon Sharp on September 18, 2014 at 12:05 AM

He looks great, Ingrid. I like the leaf, the diagonal branch and the terrifically expressive eyes. Only tweak I would suggest would be to alter ratio and take some of the space from the top.

Registered on December 9, 2007, 258 Posts, 9892 Comments