The Winner of the “Animal Portraits” Category for the Best Wild Animal Photos of 2008 is Stefano Unterthiner, for this quirky macaque portrait.
“He would jump all over me, then run away,” said Stefano Unterthiner of the black-crested macaque in this winning photo from the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. “He was always hanging around.”
Unterthiner followed a group of the monkeys on Indonesias Sulawesi island for six weeks, always wearing the same clothes, so they would recognize him.
The rare animals spend 99 percent of their time foraging in the forest and rarely venture along the shore, according to Unterthiner. Until recently the local tradition was to eat them for Christmas dinner, he added.
That macaque photo cracks me up.
This one, however, is much more serious. Frog versus snake. ouch.
