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September 23 – 29 is Sea Otter Awareness Week. A century ago, sea otters were all but gone due to overhunting. Now, they continue to be threatened in the wild as they are faced with environmental issues in their ecosystem.

Jacob, a southern sea otter, lives at the New York Aquarium (NYA.) He and his neighbor, northern sea otter, Tazo, can be photographed year round at the Sea Cliffs exhibit.

Stop by the NYA September 22-23 and 29-30 to learn more about saving sea otters.

 Photo credit: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS

Sources: New York Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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The Bronx Zoo’s Coquerel’s sifaka family are great photo subjects any time of year at Madagascar! Sifakas are lemurs, and one of many species that are only found in the wild on the island of Madagascar.

Ron Magill, a renowned photographer and wildlife expert from Zoo Miami, came to visit me and our leaping lemurs. He brought along a 200-400mm Nikkor VR lens for long range photo ops.

 Photo credit: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS

 

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Twin mini-Nubian goat kids and twin Patagonian cavies are part of a recent baby boom at Central Park Zoo’s Tisch Children’s Zoo. Take your camera along. It’s a great place to get up close to animals. Adults can take pictures from the walking trails, and there’s a log with a view to crawl through for kids to get at cavy level. More in the New York Times.

Photo credit: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS

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Ostrich photobombers.

Even animals seem to like picture crashing as these ratites (large, flightless birds) photobombed my recent giraffe assignment at the Bronx Zoo. I worked with our keepers for a long time to get our entire giraffe herd in one frame. At the magic moment, OSTRICH PHOTOBOMB.

It went on for an hour, and they never gave up.

Credit: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS

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Photos speak as our visual voice for the Wildlife Conservation Society headquartered at the Bronx Zoo. I’m Julie Larsen Maher, the sixth WCS staff photographer in our 117-year history. My job is to take pictures of the births and lives of our animal collection, our events, and our conservation work around the world.

 My day-to-day assignments could be at any of our five parks including the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo, and Queens Zoo.

I pay regular visits to Nuka, the Pacific walrus at the aquarium, and in this photo, she had just blown me a very fishy kiss. At just under a ton, visitors can see Nuka, our bathing beauty, at the Sea Cliffs exhibit. Best photo op – during their daily feeding times.

Photo credit: Megan Maher

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