Vanishing Act – Can You See the Blue-crowned parrot?

A Mealy or Blue-crowned parrot disappears like just another leaf in the lush Central American rainforest. Chan Chich, Belize.

And last week’s herd of Gemsbok:

Gemsbok, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Nambia

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Vanishing Act – Can You See the Toad, Identify it and Win a Free Calendar!

Unidentified toad from the Peruvian rainforest.  Free 2010 calendar to anyone who can identify it (and it’s a gorgeous poster sized European calendar)

And last week’s Gray Fox:

gray fox © Art Wolfe

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Vanishing Act – Can You See the Argentine Gray Fox (not in the book Vanishing Act)

And last week’s Black-bellied Bustard.

Black-bellied Bustard

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Vanishing Act – Can You See The Black-bellied Bustard?

And last week’s Katydid. Also note that some of these Vanishing Act images are not in the book and are seen only here on the blog.

katydid © Art Wolfe

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Harp Seals

The annual seal hunt began yesterday in eastern Canada.  The quota this year is an appalling 330,000, but only a fraction of that will be taken because of the decrease in demand for harp pelts.

BLOG: Harp seal harvest began yesterday – Images by Art Wolfe

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Vanishing Act – Can You See the Katydid?

And last week’s American Pika.

Vanishing Act, American Pika, © Art Wolfe

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Vanishing Act – Can you see the American Pika?

And last week’s klipspringers.

klipspringer, Chobe, Botswana, © Art Wolfe

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Vanishing Act – Can you see the two klipspringers?

And last week’s elephant.

Vanishing Act - Elephant
Vanishing Act - Elephant
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Vanishing Act – Can You See the Elephant?

And last week’s leopard.

Vanishing Act, Leopard, © Art Wolfe
Vanishing Act, Leopard, © Art Wolfe
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