The photo-a-day thread

[slow_walker]

Just got back from 10 days in Costa Rica. I now have a Nikon D500 and an 18-400 lens and I'm into wildlife photography. My photo skills are improving, but my editing is slow (because I'm lazy). I will share more photos eventually

This one is a baby howler monkey, sleeping on a branch. He's orange instead of black because of a pigment mutation. This makes him much easier for predators to spot and he'll be lucky to reach adulthood.

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[mindwaave]

Cute. Shame he's so vulnerable, though. Is it albinism?

[slow_walker]

Cute. Shame he's so vulnerable, though. Is it albinism?

From the interwebz:

Alouatta Palliata (Howler) monkeys are common throughout Central America and northern South America. But only in Costa Rica have scientists discovered that something bizarre is going on. At first, it was just a few spots and patches of yellow hair observed on some Howlers, mostly on their legs and tails. But now scientists have discovered at least 21 Howlers living along the coasts of Costa Rica, who have giant patches of yellow hair, and have even found two wild monkeys who are completely blonde.
What could be going on with these animals? Analysis of the yellow fur of these Howlers reveals that there is a difference in the type of melanin produced by the mutant monkeys. Melanin is the pigment that colors hair and skin in mammals. In Black Mantled Howler Monkeys, the pigment responsible for producing black, gray or brown fur is called eumelanin. But in the mutant monkeys, the melanin switches to pheomelanin, which produces yellow, red, or orange tones instead.

[slow_walker]

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[slow_walker]

3 toed sloth

[mindwaave]

Freakin' fantastic forest friends! My eyes are loving the greens after all this winter weather

[mindwaave]

[Nicotti]

What is it?

[mindwaave]

Cement and rebar?

[Nicotti]

But what's it do? It looks like a dam spillway in the middle of the woods. And without the dam.

[Chris]

Think: Rocket engines.

[overslept_]

Think: Rocket engines.

Brave soul if this is where I think it is!

[slow_walker]

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[SubLunar]

But what's it do? It looks like a dam spillway in the middle of the woods. And without the dam.

Think: Rocket engines.

Brave soul if this is where I think it is!

https://sublunarphotography.blogspot.co ... ctory.html

The first black and white photo on the blog post shows the concrete thing in use. But everything on top of it is gone now.

Not sure where you think it was.. but yes it was incredibly dumb and yes there was target practice happening at a firing range pretty close by onsite during the visit and you can hear some of it happening in the video at about 2:00-2:25. https://youtu.be/px9wFto4yNE?t=120

[overslept_]

I've always liked planes, unfortunately MO isn't quite known for having excess of them!