Gallery - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER WERNER SPOHR

Wildlife Photographer Werner Spohr

Poison arrow frog, Sipaliwini-savanna, Surinam/Brazil

Dendrobates azureus

European asp, Switzerland

Vipera aspis

Chimpanzee Fifi, the ideal mother, carries her son Ferdinand on her back. In terms of research into the Chimpanzee species, the most scientific research has been done on Fifi. Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Fifi has been missing since 15.12.04.

Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi

Chimpanzee, the twins Roots and Shoots with her mother Rafiki Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi

Goeldi´s Monkey, South America

Callimico goeldii

Red Uakari South America/Brazil

Cacayao rubicundus

Lesser Mouse Lemur, Madagascar

Microcebus murinus

The Siamang is the largest Gibbon. Their environments are the thick and foggy rainforests of the Malaysian peninsula and the Isle of Sumatra.

Symphalangus syndactylus Raffels

Humpback Whales are from the family of the Finback Whales. The Humpback Whale prefers to be close to the coastline, while other Finback Whales stay in the deeper sea.

Megaptera novaeangliae

The eastern Grey Kangaroo, which is an Australian marsupial, is one of the most well known animals in the country. This gregarious species occurs in large numbers in Australia.

Macropus giganteus

The name Koala means, in the language of the Aborigines, “does not drink”. The Koala gets all the water it needs from it’s food, eucalyptus leaves.

Phascolarctos cinereus

The common wombat is like many other Australian animals in that it is nocturnal and it sleeps underground during the day.

Vombatus ursinus

The loud call of the Kookaburra sounds like human laughter. For this reason, its name in German is „laughing Hans“.

Dacelo gigas

The habitat of the Palm Cockatoo is north Queensland, Australia, and New Guinea. It is the largest of the cockatoos.

Probosciger aterrimus

A forest elephant gets its essential minerals from the muddy soil in a bai in the Ndoki Reserve.

Loxodonta africana cyclotis

African forest elephants in the Ndoki National Park part of the Congo River Basin rain forest.

Loxodonta africana cyclotis

Lion with cubs, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Panthera leo

Lion kills a young Thomson's gazelle, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Panthera leo

Red African Buffalo in the Ndoki National Park part of the Congo River Basin rain forest.

Syncerus caffer nanus

Marabou Stork, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Leptoptilos crumeniferus

The nocturnal Malay Eagle Owl lives in the rainforest up to an altitude of 700m. It lives in most parts of south-east Asia. This owl is noted for its large, feathery, protruding ears.

Bubo sumatrana

The White-bellied Sea Eagle belongs to the lively and skilful Sea Eagle species which lives in the tropics.

Haliaeëtus leucogaster