Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting (smithsonianmag.com)

This is my favorite type of news! Animals are the absolute best and I love learning about new ones we've discovered.

Good luck with the beetles, man.

This guy is awesome. My wife got almost every one of his tabletop books.

Related "Photo Ark – An effort to document every species living in zoos and sanctuaries (nationalgeographic.org)" 23.apr.2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22953622 9 comments

My buddy is on a quest to be the first to photograph all forty species of wild cats. He's at 38 of 40 (I'm at 7, so I don't think I've got any chance of winning.) He's trying to finish up within the next six months or so, and is currently down in Chile trying to get a güiña. He recently told me, though, that his victory may be short lived, as a group of scientists reviewing cat species are likely about to break some of the small cats up into additional separate species and he'll have to get those too.

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