Puma, Patagonia
A puma walks across rocky terrain toward the camera in Torres del Paine National Park in the Patagonian area of Chile.
Mother Leopard, Kenya
A mother leopard rests in a tree while her cub sits on the ground below her. If you look closely, you will see she has at least three engorged ticks on her face. Her cub has at least one on its face as well.
Brown Bear, Lake Clark National Park
A female brown bear roams the tidal flats hunting for clams near Silver Salmon Creek in Lake Clark National Park.
Puma, Torres del Paine National Park
This is the same puma as in the previous photo. After staring at us for a moment she stretched, yawned, and walked right by us like we weren’t even there.
Puma Wakes Up; Patagonia
This puma was very at ease with us. She slept for a while knowing where we were and just ignored us for the most part. After she woke up she just ambled past us and finally disappeared.
Cheetah, Kenya
A cheetah mother starts to hunt in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy. She has three hungry cubs to feed.
Brown Bear, Alaska
A brown bear munches on sedge grass in Lake Clark National Park. I’m not sure why it is that brown bears, at least where they are routinely photographed, pretty much ignore humans. I don’t know of any distance rules regarding the bears in Lake Clark. Of course, there was the famous case of Timothy Treadwell, a brown bear activist who, along with his girlfriend, was killed by a male brown bear in 2003.
