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  1. Jurek7

    Jurek7 Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I was fascinated by this photo of baboons at Cabarceno, which could well be on a rocky outcrop in Africa:

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    What photos in the gallery fascinate you, because they could be taken in the wild?
    To make it more difficult, the photo should:
    - Show quite a lot of surroundings (so not just an animal portrait)
    - Show animal not native to the zoo area
    - Cannot show only water, only sky or other featureless surface.
     
  2. Great Argus

    Great Argus Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    This one got me when it popped up in my random media the other day, I was surprised to find it was in a zoo!

    Helmeted Guineafowl at The Living Desert, taken by @ThylacineAlive
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  3. JT

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    I took this photo of a young Amur tiger back in February at the Highland Wildlife Park. You can sort of see the fence in the background but it’s masked by trees and not initially noticeable.
     

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  4. DaLilFishie

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    I think this one counts! Taken by myself at Hartley's Crocodile Adventures.

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    And these, all taken at BirdWorld Kuranda

    Pale-Headed Rosella (just ignore the Java Sparrow lol)
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    Nicobar Pigeon
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    Black-Masked Lovebird
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    There used to be an introduced population of Pale-headed Rosellas in Hawaii, which occured alongside Java Sparrows.
     
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    Hmmm, going through my photography gives few results - which I may just take as a challenge the next time I visit a zoo. This is probably the closest result, Fiona and Panda at Assiniboine Zoo. AZ doesn't have too many natural exhibits where I could get an angle that would hide the fencing - truly the curse of living in the flat prairies. I do have plenty of photos of the bears that would qualify if they weren't from Manitoba :p
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  8. DaLilFishie

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    Oh! I had no idea! You can un-ignore the Java Sparrow then LOL :D
     
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    This is probably the most suitable from all that I took myself.

    Polar bear at Blijdorp Rotterdam
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    Beautiful shot!
     
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    This photo of a lone black rhino at Disney’s Animal Kingdom 592740EC-1F5B-4BCB-B428-D49C576DCBF4.jpeg
     
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    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    The mock rock in the background make it pretty obvious this is a zoo photo, not to mention the lack of plant life.
     
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    A picture I took at the North Carolina Zoo
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    The fact that the trees are obviously not African mean this one doesn't really fit either.

    Sorry if it sounds like I'm being harsh but this thread has really strayed from its original purpose - this isn't a place to just post zoo photos, they have to look they could have been taken in the wild - not all of the photos on this thread currently look like that. If you think a random person looking at the photo would probably conclude that the photo was taken in captivity, it doesn't belong here.
     
  15. Aardwolf

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    I wouldn't hold the lack of plant life against them - black rhino can live in some pretty desolate looking places - but yeah, nowhere in the natural world do you find rocks like zoo "rocks"
     
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    Yeah. The fact that no barrier/fences can be seen doesn't mean it looks like it could be taken in the wild.

    For the thread, i'm pretty sure more than some photo in the Highland wildlife park gallery could qualify,
     
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    Took this photo of little bustards in Paris
     
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    There are also some pretty clear fencelines behind the elephant and right in the back of the photo; the larger trees in the background have guards around their trunks; and the deciduous Northern Hemisphere habitat is obviously also wrong for the antelope at the back.
     
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    They’re Macqueen’s bustards not little bustards!
     
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    Both of these I took from the Bronx Zoo, three years ago.