Find zoo photos which could be taken in the wild!
- Thread starter Jurek7
- Start date
Indeed, nothing evokes the West African rainforest quite as much as lawn grass...
This one I took of a Klipspringer at San Diego has a bit of a wild feel to it…
Great photo! It also makes it look deceptively larger given it's size.
How about these two? A lot of mine that really look wild are natives which don't count according to the original post. 
Great photos.
Zooplantman
Well-Known Member
Especially considering that it is posed in front of a painted mural and not outdoors
The woodpigeon really adds up to the jungle feeling too
The panda is okay, but the obviously fake rocks in the hippo photo and the lawn in the gorilla photo do not at all look wild.
I do really like this photo - great job - but I don't think it fits this thread. Those rocks are clearly fake.This one I took of a Klipspringer at San Diego has a bit of a wild feel to it…
It sounds weird to say but the hornbill is probably one of the best photos on this thread that fit the title.Bronx zoo has a number of very realistic exhibits which are decades old - they aged very well!
Gelada and ibex exhibit (Baboon reserve):
World of birds (the background is painted, but creating such an illusion is also a skill):
Asian monorail:
Except that this is a rainforest species, not an arid country one, so it is not realistic...
That's far but I think it gets a pass. Most people don't know that so could easily think this photo was taken in the wild.
I didn't even notice the bird! It's actually a Spotted Dove from southeast Asia (introduced to Australia).
That reminded me of this photo I took in the actual wild! (This is a crop, the full photo was similar to yours).
But then, "most people wouldn't know that those trees are eucalypts", "most people wouldn't know that species x and y don't occur together in the wild", "most people wouldn't know etc etc".
Just behind and to the right of the gorilla.