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Monitor Lizard eats Crab
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Monitor Lizard eats Crab

by Nate Chappell

Gallery: WildlifePosted November 11, 2014198 views4 comments
On our Chobe, Botswana trip we came across this Monitor Lizard with a Land Crab in it's mouth. After some considerable effort getting it into the right position he managed to swallow it. I didn't have enough pixels to really make a close up of just the head and the crab, in addition there was an out of focus tree trunk at the bottom which I cropped out, the result was this standard 3x2 crop.

Canon 5D3 500F4 1/2500 F6.3, iso 800

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Mario Moreno on November 11, 2014 at 4:59 PM
Great capture Nate :toast:
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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on November 12, 2014 at 8:48 PM
Love it Nate...great subject matter well captured. Good decision on the crop also.
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Comment posted by Brad Hill on November 14, 2014 at 9:10 AM
Hey Nate,

Now that's a mouthful! I'm not fully in love with the positioning of the head in the frame as presented, but sounds like you had few other options on the framing/cropping. Darned OOF tree trunks! :wink:

Cheers...

Brad
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Comment posted by David Bogener on November 14, 2014 at 11:44 AM
Interesting behavioral image well captured. Nice cropping job.
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