Simon Cherriman checks on a wedgie (Aquila audax) aerie

Western Australia, 2010

A Milne-Edwards' sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi) considers the next leave to eat.

Ranomafana NP, Madagascar 2007

Yusef scans for markhor (Capra falconeri)

High Pamir, Tajikistan 2012

A habituated red fox (Vulpes vulpes japonica) asks for an egg.

北海道, 日本 2007

Morgan Kellogg explores some ice

Salmon River Falls, NY

Mantled guereza (Colobus guereza), aka Abyssinian black-and-white colobus, groom each other

Kibale NP, Uganda 2008

Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

An orangutan (P. pygmaeus) eyes me warily. This moment was five days in the making, I was too excited to be polite.

Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo 2007

Eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), deep in thought

Kibale NP, Uganda 2008

Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

地獄谷野猿公苑 , 日本 2007

Marble Mountain

Ngũ Hành Sơn (Five Elements Mountains),
Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam

A March morning in the Baltic

Vilnius, Lithuania 2010

Alexander Lee & Benjamin Hale pontificate

Mono Lake, CA

صويرة‎

Essaouira (Mogador), Morocco

Impala (Aepyceros melampus)

Kruger NP , South Africa

A red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) raids a garden

Fort Portal, Uganda

An Abyssinian black-and-white colobus (Colobus guereza), hopefully not as sad as she looks

Kibale NP, Uganda

Red-shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus)

Red-shanks are among the more difficult primates to find.

Sơn Trà, Vietnam

An urban long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis) enjoys some rubbish

Lopburi, Thailand

Julio Rivas García, church-topper

Quito, Ecuador

Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis) rule the rooftops

Lopburi, Thailand

A culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), or Andean fox, eyes a meal

Chimborazo, Ecuador

A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar) gaps the canopy

Khao Yai NP, Thailand

A mantled guereza (Colobus guereza) leaps for the next leaf

Kibale NP, Uganda

A lesser bamboo lemur (Hapalemur griseus) feeds at dusk

Mananara Avaratra, Madagascar

Travis Drake leads me up a Flatiron

Boulder, CO

Benni Leutner heads downhills

Swiss Alps

Alfonso heads uphill

Guagua Pichincha, Ecuador

Looking back down the Gothics

Adirondacks, NY

Autumn morning upstate

Lake Moraine, NY

Dushanbe-Khorog road, the only way into the Pamir

Along the Panj River, Tajikistan

Alexander Lee drops into a slot

Blue John Canyon, Utah

Children react to a passing wedding

Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Central Asian elegance

Dushanbe, Tajikistan

A ranger checks his charge

Nyungwe NP, Rwanda

Twenty-plus people in one truck, thirty-hour trip up the Northeastern Malagasy coast

outside Mahambo, Madagascar

Traffic jam in the Anzob tunnel. Insane.

Fan Mountains, Tajikistan

Yusef cooks dinner

High Pamir, Tajikistan

Sheh William poses before entering the Morong compound

Kumbo, Cameroon

Truckers wait their turn

Pamir, Tajikistan

Autumn, willow, moose (Alces alces)

Pinedale, WY

Simon Cherriman, still after eagles and aeries

Outback, Western Australia

Black-and-red Broadbills (Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos), roosting at night

Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Purple-chested hummingbird (Amazilia rosenbergi), adorning my hosts' backyard

Quito, Ecuador

Asian elephant emerging

Khao Yai NP, Thailand

Fanaloka (Fossa fossana), or Malagasy civet, hunting

Ranomafana NP, Madagascar

[From left] Abdul Nasir, Ngeh Francis, & Hamza, searching for the "King of the Forest", Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani)

Oku, Cameroon

A wallaroo (Macropus robustus erubescens) , or euro, digs up an old gnamma hole, looking for water

The Outback, Western Australia