Mvura Mum to be

[Ken Watkins]

Here is a picture of Mvura she is honestly rounder than normal, being pregnant she is of course grazing on water weed.

Taken near Rhino Island, Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe, 16th September 2010

EOS 1D MkIII

28-300mm at 200mm

F6.3, ISO 400, 1/800

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - great texture and I too like the oxpecker. Good comp as well.

TFS,
Rachel

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for the comments, I am sure all will be well.

Peter,

I had not really noticed the horn/ear overlap. I will look at the other images of this.

[Harshad Barve]

Can't wait ;);)

Excellent image in great light
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely rhino in lovely light Ken. I too noticed the horn/earn overlap :)
let's hope Zim can stop their poachers!

[Ken Watkins]

let's hope Zim can stop their poachers!

They shoot to kill, but obviously not if is friends of the "government"

[Stephen Earle]

I love the light here Ken. All in all a good image.

[Robert Amoruso]

Great detail on the animal and the bird is a nice plus. Do you have one with the right ear and horn not merging?

[Ken Watkins]

Robert,

Just took a look and I do have , I will post it tomorrow.

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - I don't want to hijack your thread and maybe there is a better place to post this. I just thought people would be interested in hearing about this horrible poaching incident of black rhinos in Lewa:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39990866...ld_environment


Maybe we should avoid posting the locations of our rhino shots.

Rachel

[Ken Watkins]

Rachel,


I really do not think that poachers look on BPN to find locations of Rhino, but you never know. Matusadona has a reasonable population of these animals and it is very well known, but it also has a very good anti-poaching operation.

Here is an example:

A guide on a houseboat radioed his guests who were out fishing to say that he had spotted Black Rhino near the houseboat, within a short period the park rangers arrived beat him up and arrested him. Radioing locations in this park is forbidden.

The real guilty party is CITES.

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - while I doubt poachers look specifically to BPN, they may do internet searches for images of black rhinos and see where they were taken. I also understand that in all likelihood the poachers already know which parks and reserves have a population and it is more a matter of them being able to find the rhinos exact location at a given time.

These days it just seems like the poachers are succeeding all too often. :(

Rachel