Diana Australis' photos with the keyword: wild animal

A caiman, wild, in the Pantanal in Brazil. This was the dry season when the waterholes were almost empty...there were caimans all along the roadsides. The whole area is a giant flooded wetland for some months of the year, and impassable at those times.

In Singapore park

The males of the species have permanently prominent erect penises...even when swinging through the prickly jungle! (Ouch!) In a wild environment in Borneo, where they come in from the jungle daily to be fed. This is because their habitat for foraging is depleted by palm oil plantations. They are my favourite monkeys, these gentle giants with their comical faces!

No crop. On uninhabited Medney Island in the Bering Sea. It was very unafraid, curious and playful. It came and nibbled my boot and my trousers as I sat very still on the beach.

Kamchatka bear. Olga Bay. Eastern Siberia. Salmon spawning season. This is a remote, uninhabited stretch of coast. After a zodiac landing I had walked about 10 kilometers in welington boots along a beach covered in bear footprints, then through a forest and river. We were about to turn back when this bear came along the shore, entered the river, and started fishing, about 15 meters away.

Wild camels. Central Australia......a common sight in very remote areas. These feral pests are descended from escaped Afghan cameleer herds in the days [1860's] when camels were imported to transport good into remotest Australia. There are now about 6 million of these destructive pests in Australia. White settlers introduced rabbits, foxes and goats....previously not here...now also feral pests in their millions, along with millions of feral cats, descendants of house cats...... They are all through the désert and remote lands. These animals all wreak havoc with the land and decimate native animal species.

In natural environment. Dominant male proboscis monkey. Bako National Park, Sarawak. Malaysia. I find these animals totally fascinating...they look like a patchwork assemblage of various other animal parts....or like stout gents in waistcoats with big boozy noses!

Mother and child. Wild orangutans, Semenggoh Nature Reserve, Sarawak. Thanks and best wishes to you all at this festive season.