Animal Photography: collection of my best wildlife close ups

Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!

There is a new photo contest going on in the Photography Lovers community and the theme is ANIMALS, which means I cannot miss out on this round of course :)

As you have probably noticed by now, posts about nature and animals make for a significant part of my content here on the blockchain and I have already published dozens (if not hundreds) of posts with animal photos.

Nevertheless, because of the covid madness that we all have been dealing with in some ways for long months already, it´s very difficult to travel and explore new natural places these days and since I am not a big fan of facilities where captive animals can be observed, I had to make do with my old photos to participate in this photo contest. To make it a bit more interesting and entertaining for you, however, I decided to compile a special collection of some of my best wildlife close up photos and also identify all of the featured creatures.

Without further ado, let me take you on this little "safari tour" where I will show you some of the most interesting creatures I have encountered and captured in different parts of the world.


Saturniid Caterpillar

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Hermit Crab

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Brown Anole

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White Nosed Coati

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Dung Beetle

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Horseshoe Crab

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Brown Pelican

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Atlantic Ghost Crab

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Monarch Butterfly

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Portuguese Man of War

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Green Rose Chafer

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Black Spiny Tailed Iguana

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Brown Throated Sloth

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Banana Spider

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Giant Red Winged Grasshopper

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Roman Snail

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Green Crowned Brilliant Hummingbird

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Arizona Bark Scorpion

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Green Sea Turtle

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Rhinoceros Beetle

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Red Claw Crayfish

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Yellow Zebra Grasshopper

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Keel Billed Toucan

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Tailless Whip Scorpion

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I hope you you enjoyed this collection of animal close ups. I did my best trying to identify all those creatures for you but I am not an expert and I cannot guarantee that all the names are really correct. If you find any mistakes, please feel free to correct them in the comment section below, I will appreciate every feedback :) Thank you.




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Thank you for visiting my blog. If you like posts about Nature, Animals, Ecology, Crypto, Traveling, Photography and discovering secrets and beauties of the World, feel free to follow me as these are the topics I mostly write about. Have a wonderful day and keep on hiving! :)



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Great collection!

Thank you for participating at the contest at first...

I can see you meet a lot of wildlife during all these places you have been in the past.
I somehow like the turtle the most and crab photo is also awesome.
Swimming with turtles is on my wish list. I was hoping to check that on Seychelles, but no luck that time. Reason more to keep traveling and exploring when all this madness will be over.

Great effort first hunting all these animals with your camera and now puting it together in a compilation!
Worth all the support possible from my side...

@tipu curate

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Visit here in the Philippines @crazy-andy and you'll be assured to be swimming with the turtles. There's an island here called Apo Island and the turtles are just chillin' near the beach. You don't have to dive.

Moalboal here in Cebu has some turtle sightings on top of the sardine run.

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Hey man you know that I wasn't thinking of traveling to Philippines in the past, but seeing your posts and some of your friends posts, things changed. I am sure I will visit Philippines at least once in the future and it will be near future. I am sure I can count on you to help me showing around. It would be awesome to have local input. I am waiting for turtle beach photos from your side. And entry to the contest as well ;)

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Sounds great, I might join you guys :) I have been a huge fan of all the great travel posts by the Filipino community, they promote the natural beauty of the county in a very impressive fashion.

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Now I don't know if they only are that good writers and are formating their posts that way or the country is reall that nice...
I would say we have to go and see on our own eyes ;)

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They are good writers for sure but the photos don´t lie - the Philippines must be breathtakingly beautiful ;) As you said though, we better go and see it for ourselves :)

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I'm excited to see you here! We didn't place 4 islands in Condé Nast Traveler's 2020 Readers' Choice Awards for Best Islands in Asia if our islands are not that stunning. Now that sounds I'm bragging because I really do. 😂

Cebu and Visayas Islands - 1st
Palawan - 4th
Siargao - 5th
Boracay - 6th

Of those islands alone, you'll never want to leave the Philippines. 😄

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Hey now you are really teasing me!
You need to stop! You know we have a travel ban here in Europe...

I did an extra research about your country and islands you wrote and they really are looking stunning! I don't know why I thought Philippines are not that interesting. They offer everything I like!
Now I really want to visit, but probably when kid(s) will grow a bit. Till than I will just be watching and reading your posts and dreaming...

Just one more thing, before @phortun kick us out from his blog :)
Is it expensive destination? How much would it cost approximately for family around 14 days top highlights tour? With food and accomodation (4*?), no fly cost...
Just to get an imagination.

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No problem at all, keep on chatting guys :) It´s really interesting to me too plus it´s always good to have some real engagement under my posts :D

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I can't really give a definite figure because most of my travels are really cheap. I think any country in Southeast Asia is cheaper to travel than in Europe.

Here's a link of the possible package tours: https://www.viator.com/en-HK/Visayas-tours/Multi-day-Tours/d5171-g20-c85

But I bet they're way more expensive than DIY travels.

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Looking good!
Thanks for the answer and see you someday :)

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I haven't actually been there yet, but based on the photos from friends, they're amazing. I'll be sure to share photos of Moalboal in the coming weeks. There are plans already in place, but it's not yet final.

As for you visiting the Philippines, I'll be happy to be your tour guide. 😄 I'll bring you to places you'll definitely love.

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Thank you so much for all the support and your kind feedback Andy, much appreciated. Swimming with the turtles is an amazing experience and I hope you will have an opportunity to do that too one day. There was a place just a short drive from where we lived in Mexico where the turtles used to feed on the sea grass very close to the shore and it was there where I captured that shot. The turtles used to be really abundant in that area but unfortunately, just as I expected, mass tourism and ruthless visitors were causing too much stress and discomfort to the turtles that they left the place... Maybe now with so many people staying home, they returned to that bay...

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I was swimming with manta rays on Seychelles and it was kind of scary I have to admit. I love swimming and snorkeling, but underwater World is still bit mystic to me.

Poor turtles...
I have heard for few examples where tourism bam repaired the situation, especially nature wise. At least something where Covid did a positive thing.

Ohhh and I noticed you haven't post your entry at submission post yet. Choose the best one and wish you good luck!

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Thanks for the heads up, will do that now ;)

Oh yeah, the underwater world can look scary indeed. While snorkeling with those turtles, for example, they were giant barracudas swimming around and I almost crapped my swim shorts when I saw them for the first time :D Just google out what they look like if you are not familiar with this species :D Pure nightmare stuff :D

Very good point about the corona virus. While it´s been a disaster for us humans, it´s been a great relief for nature ;)

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Whut? You were able to take a photo of a Portuguese Man of War? Awesome!

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It was one of many that got washed out on the shore so it was not that difficult ;) You guys have them in the Philippines too?

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I'm not sure if we have one, but I read somewhere that if you see one, you should go away as far as possible. They're extremely dangerous.

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Well, this is how much of them we had in the Azores, Portugal at one point ;) But those that get washed on the shore die very quickly...

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Whut? There are hundreds or thousands of them washed ashore. That's interesting. I haven't seen one yet. I would love to see one day.

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Damn these animals are out of this world what planet did you go to get photos of these awesome creatures the Portuguese Man of War , Giant Red Winged Grasshopper and the Yellow Zebra Grasshopper insane how beautiful are they all this is a tremendous display i can't stop looking at them over and over...lol 👍

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Aww, thank you so much man :) I am really happy to see such a positive response from you guys. Animal photography is one of my very favorite photograpy categories so taking all those shots was a great pleasure and fun for me. Here is some more info about the Portuguese Man of War, very interesting, yet dangerous creature :)

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Thank you so much guys, really appreciate it :)

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Such a beautiful post and all stunning photos, I would not know where to look first ;)
Good luck at the contest!

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Thank you Katerina, I am really glad you enjoyed this photo collection :)

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Wow! I didn't even know that some of these animals/insects exist, lol. But it's nice seeing them closer! ... and scary in some cases haha

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Haha that´s right :) Animals come in all shapes, colors and sizes - from beautiful and cute to weird and creepy :D

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Wow! What a collection!!! The Portuguese Man of War is a phenomenal find for me! I don't even know what is it. Is it some kind of a jellyfish?

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What a gem of a collection of animals and insects these are all fascinating especially the Giant Red Winged Grasshopper he really looks like a Alien creature 😱

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That´s actually one of my very favorite shots ;) Still don´t understand how my old cellphone could capture the details of that purple fella so well haha :)

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That is one amazing photo from a cellphone who needs to be lugging around a 2 kg camera ...lol 🤣

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