A Primate Studying the Anthropocene
Kelvin, Tsz Hei Choi
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Nestled within the soaring peaks and deep ravines of China’s Hunan Province sits Wulingyuan, a famed UNESCO natural heritage site which inspired James Cameron's Avatar (2009). Echoing the film's portrayal of empathy and the mutual understanding between humans and indigenous species, the wild monkeys here are also in a constant struggle with tens of thousands of tourists that flood the park daily. This monkey here stared at this foreign object left behind by his fellow primate with human-like inquisitiveness. What was the monkey thinking? What was going through his mind? Humans study nature, but in this instance, perhaps it's nature studying us.
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Kelvin, Tsz Hei Choi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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JPG
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749.1 KB
Width
3000 px
Height
2000 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Nikon
Model
D7200
Exposure
62 mm f/8 1/500 s ISO 560
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Taken
2 April 2018
Tint
Olive black
Submitted
15 February 2019
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