Dec 28, 2012
Can you find the hidden animals in these 20 wildlife photos?
As a wildlife photographer, Art Wolfe of course takes pictures of animals. But not just any pictures. He finds and captures scenes that include animals so at home in their environment that you can hardly tell they’re there…
Giraffe
Wolf
Willow Ptarmigan
Caiman
Great Horned Owl
American Pika
Blue-crowned Parrot
Horned Adder
Leopard
Gyrfalcon
California Ground Squirrel
Spotted Deer
Impala
Cheetah
Common Snipe
Wandering Tattler
Nighthawk
Coyote
Klipspringers
Blue Dacnis
Related…
- 15 camouflaged owls — Beautiful birds blending in
- Dazzle Camo: Using modern art to disguise WWI ships
- Painted woman is camouflaged at the vegetable stand
- 15 cell towers disguised as trees
(via The Daily Mail)
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The wolf took me awhile and if I knew what a snipe was, maybe I would know what to look for….
I googled it…That thing is well hidden!
Sniiiipe! Here Snipey Snipey… *clap* *clap* *clap*
Yeah, I feel like I’m at summer camp again, and the counselors sent us on a snipe hunt.
I know what the things are and what they look like, but I canNOT find it in the picture.
I finally found it. I had to use Magnifier to 250%.
“UP” love it!!
Found them all. the leopard was a doozy, but made the cheetah easier to find.
A snipe is a real bird, but not easy to find.
Not a snipe, but a Sniper.
You don’t see him, but he sees you.
And when he does, you are gone.
So is he, without a trace.
Be aware!
Reminds me of this amazingly well-camouflaged cat
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-koWM3VBtxfQ/TaG27hOuW6I/AAAAAAAAW_I/XIYsWwQQqjE/s1600/Camouflage%2Bcat.jpg
I promise it’s in there.
I’ll take your word for it, but where? Help?
Wait, found it!
If you were there, not looking at a blurry photo, that cat would be easy to see. Notice that it is just sitting on it’s haunches in well in front of the rocks. Your stereoscopic vision would cause your eyes to pick it up. That is why in sniper school, they teach you to be against something so you do not stand out.
Cannot find that leopard to save my life!
I think the leopard is lying down in front of the big tree on the right.
You can see the entire leopard’s face — I had to come back to it, but it is light colored, but all features are clearly visible. Look in the lower right side…next to the tree trunk.
A snipe is a bird with a longish beak. That didn’t help me one little bit in finding the darn thing.
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I can’t find the snipe. That is the only one. Can someone please tell me what quadrant it is in?
There’s something that could be a beak in quadrant 3 though I’m really not certain that’s correct.
The snipe is in the lower left hand quadrant. He is sitting in the grass and you can mostly see his head and beak. If you put your cursor over the picture, you’ll see a tag pop up.Hope that helps.
the tag pops up everywhere on the photo though.
but i did find it with your instruction. thank you!
Snipe is in the lower left with a very small neck and long, skinny beak facing right
He is actually not facing right – he is looking at the camera his beak looks like this /
Wow I got them all except the Snipe – I think that is because I don’t believe they exist!
snipe is lower left- if you divide the pic into 4 blocks across and 3 up (12 total) the snipe is at the top right corner of the lower left block. He (she) has a very light stem just left of his left eye, his head has black stripes on top and his beak is pointing left to where 7 would be on a clock.
The snipe is in the bottom left quadrant….now where’s the bloody leopard?
The leopard was my problem one too (althought I’m pretty sure I still haven’t found the snipe). The leopard is in the bottom right, just to the right of the tree trunk, facing you.
I can’t find the wolf!
Wolf is just to right of third tree from the left.
Did anyone else notice that the coyote is actually a fox?
Sorry, that is a coyote. I know them very well as they are around my East Texas house and I have to keep my cats inside to keep them from being eaten. I lost one to a coyote and another to a copperhead. The cat brought the copperhead home before it felt the poison and dropped it in the kitchen. I got up in the middle of the night to get a drink and damn near stepped on it. They are an aggressive snake but I was still able to capture it with a set of eight inch salad tongs. I originally picked it up by the tail but it bent almost enough to tag me and I resorted to the tongs. I stuffed it in an empty mayo jar and released it by a different lake where it would be away from humans. Glad I didn’t get bit. Those are painful and can raise huge blisters.
i found them all
Wow, that was cool and fun. Sure worked my eyes to death!
This was far too easy. Spotted them all straight away :/
K guy..
me too actually lol
Snipes aren’t real back in the old days when the city kids went to go see family out in the country they told the kids to go on a snipe hunt and said they would lure the snipe and just pranked the kids and left them there.
Wow that was incredibly easy!
Yeah that was pretty easy, but I am also from the “where’s waldo” generation.
dunno if anyone noticed, but there is also a leopard in the tree to the left of the giraffe in the first picture.
Wrong. Those trees would not interest a leopard. Leopards prefer trees like you see in the “leopard” photo. If a leopard were there. he would likely be in the larger tree to the far left.
I found some of them! Great post!
still not sure if i found the snipe! reminds me of this, hardest cat to find, but once you see it you feel stupid for not seeing it to begin
http://elvomitar.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/find-camouflage-cat-part-two.html
k, help, where is it
The snipe fried my brain.
In some of these pics are really hard to see the animal :) Good one :)
yes, yes i can!
did anyone else happen to catch that it isn’t just one of the falcons?it is three of them.
Hey! I really failed to find the wolf? Amazing pics
Heh, it’s definitely a spotted deer now.
I found them all, the Snipe was the hardest.
I can’t believe how hard is this to locate some of them. Eyes of predators truly are gifted to be able to see things which almost seem naked to the human eye.
The predators often miss them too. Consider the TV nature series films where the lions miss the fawn just laying in the grass. Predators generally require movement to spur their predatory drives. Many predators completely ignore those species that do not run from them. Leopards are known to make friends with baby monkeys as example because the baby does not know to run.
but for real though wheres the snipe?
Snipe is in yo face!
Did anyone else see the human face in “Spotted Deer” picture? I thought it was spot the human haha.
I cant even tell if its a human face or just looks like it but it looks like some guy with glassess
Hi, i spotted a man’s face on the left side of a deer. Kind of spooky. See no glasses but yes, man’s face def.
thanks…
Think of this, you could be enjoying the woods and around you could be 20 small animals, 2 larger ones and 50,000,000 insects and you would not be able to find them. This is what has occurred through evolution as animals and insects evolve to be protected from predation. It generally takes millions of years but genetic alteration is that effective. My grandfather was a master at seeing hidden animals. He could pick out a pronghorn laying in the grass at 200 yards or a prayi9ng mantis perfectly camouflaged in a bush ten feet away.
Please will you religious dolts please not lay your blind trips on me about evolution. You need to open your eyes and realize that 2000 year old myths and your childhood fears create your condition, not reality. Throwing religion around helps no one and I am frankly sick of it.
So glad Dr. John Cook stopped by to share his experiences and expertise.