Actual Ape

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Cultural anthropologist, nature lover, Scuba enthusiast, pro LGBTQIA+ rights, justice, democracy, Ukraine. Research focus: Post-Soviet Russia. Formerly at Post. Politically engaged but will mostly post photos.

A pelican flying with its wings curved forward as it looks down at the water.
A pelican flying with its wings forward against the cloudy sky.
A pelican soars high in the sky with it's wings wide apart and a cloudy blue sky in the background.
A black vulture stands on the sidewalk next to some green bushes and looks slightly at the camera.
A raccoon hanging from a rung of a clothesline ladder with green trees in the background.
A raccoon climbing on a ladder that used to be a clothes line. The ladder pokes up into the tree tops. The top of a white building and its air conditioning units are in the background. The raccoon is looking at the camera and is right side up.
Two chalk bass fish looking up from the sand. They are white fish with blue and brown stripes.
A small shrimp on the floor of the reef. The hind legs are long with purple specks. It's body is translucent, and it has long antennae.
Close up of a sharpnose puffer fish in front of a pinkish sponge and surrounded by algae. The sharpnose puffer has a greenish body and delicate blue markings on its body, face and around its eyes, and its face has an orange tint.
A tiny orange fish - I think a goby - swims over an orange sponge. To the right a sharpnose pufferfish swims over some algae. The little blue markings stand out on the pufferfish's face, and the orange sponge seems to bring out the orange tones of the pufferfish as well.
A four eyed butterfly fish swimming over some coral. A mostly yellow fish, round-ish but slender body with black stripes, a black dot at the rear and black eyes, and a little snouty nose.
A French angelfish swims down to the bottom of the reef. Gray with yellow edges to its fins, yellow around its eyes and white around its mouth. It's swimming toward green algae and a pinkish brown barrel sponge.
A white spotted filefish looking up at the camera. This one is kind of greenish with pale spots, a yellow ring ring around its eye and some yellow in its fins. It's mouth is open and you can see is snaggleteeth. It looks like green algae and a yellow sponge behind it.
A little sharpnose pufferfish swimming among the branches of orange sea sponge. The fish is about two inches long, white underneath and brown on top with little blue markings around its eyes and on its nose
I believe these are 3 juvenile bluehead wrasses swimming above yellow coral. The fish are white, black and yellow, have a black dot on their white translucent dorsal fin, and their eyes are red.
A hawksbill turtle eating something on the sea floor while a French angel fish swims above it. The turtle has serrated edges around its shell and black shapes on its face and flippers. The French angelfish is gray with a white mouth.
A splendid toadfish amongst the yellow- green coral and algae. Only the face and one yellow fin are visible. It's face is black and brown striped and it has little tentacles all around its face.
A tiny white creature perhaps? A close up of something tiny and white on a brownish orange giant barrel sponge.
An arrow crab between two yellow sponges. Long brown legs and little blue claws.
Close up of a tiny creature - about 1 cm in length crawling on a yellow brain coral. Perhaps a juvenile fire worm.
A blue chromis - a small 4 to 5 inch fish - swims in the open water past a bright orange sponge.
The serious looking face of a snapper - gray with hints of red around its scales and a red eye. Close up with the reef blurred in the background.
A rough fileclam - red with white tentacles - tucked inside an orange sponge. A yellow coral is in the right foreground.
An orange and yellow banded clinging crab clinging to a yellow sea anemone with a splash of orange in the background.
A black and white baby drumfish swims in front of yellow colored coral.
A sharpnose puffer fish peeking out from the crevasse of a yellow sponge
Close up of a juvenile 3 spot damselfish swimming next to a giant barrel sponge. The fish is about two inches long, yellow with a black spot on its back. The sponge is reddish brown.
A snapper swims in front of a swim through with red coral in the foreground.
A cow fish swims onto the scene. Its face only is visible - yellow with green markings, orange eyes and two little horns. Its mouth looks puckered and ready for a kiss.
a brittle star sits inside of a pink vase sponge and a tiny hermit crab (?) inside it's home on another part of the pink vase sponge. The little red feed of the crab are poking out of the shell.
Two flamingo tongue snails attached to coral. The snails are white and orange-ish with orange spots lined in black. The coral is brown with yellow polyps.
A small Rock Beauty fish - with yellow face and tail and black body with a small edge of blue on its back sits on a star coral and looks up at the camera.
A sharpnose puffer fish - white bottom, brown back and orange eyes hiding on the sea floor under some purple tube sponges.
A Mallard duckling in a lake with water dripping from its beak.
A red-eared slider turtle standing on a rock in the pond and looking up at me. Dark shell and face with yellow stripes on its lower face and neck and a red stripe behind its eye.
A laughing gull soaring above the Gowanus canal canal. The canal looks green and the shore is green. The gull has grey wings with black tips, white tail feathers, white neck and black face with white eye and a red beak.
Three baby starlings and an adult. Three on standing on a black ring for hanging pots. One little one stands above them on the railing. The baby in the front is squawking and its parent is looking at it skeptically. Small green plants are on either side and construction in the background.
A sharpnose puffer swims in front of the coral that is orange-ish and covered in green sea algae. The puffer is small - around two inches long, with a brown back and lighter lower. Small blue dots are found across its body, yellow around its yes and little blue and yellow stripes that look like eye lashes around its eyes.
Egret standing along the edge of the pond. Looking out into the water, its reflection mirrored below. Green grass behind it and the canopy of green trees on either side.
A schoolmaster snapper poking out from behind the coral. Orange formations on the right and green and red ones behind the fish. The fish is silver and yellow with orange around its black eye.
A yellow damselfish swims to the left above the reef with blurred green scenery in the background.
A yellowish damselfish swimming in front of yellow coral.
A bright red sponge brittle star crawling in a light purple sea sponge. Green algae in the background.
An ocean trigger fish swims past while looking back. Medium sized white fish with gray on its upper back and grayish fins. It's swimming against the background of the sandy ocean bottom.
Two black and white striped fish - sharknose gobies - look like they're dancing into the abyss of the pink sponge
A green sea turtle sits on the ocean floor among the coral with two green colored remoras on its back.
A squid swimming in the open sea. The squid's eye is looking toward the camera, its body is a glimmering iridescent purple, spots on its back and bubbles to its right.
A surgeonfish peeking out from under the coral surrounded by green algae. The fish is gray with blue outlines and orange eyes. It's looking at the camera with one eye and it's little fins spread wide.
A filefish that looks a bit reddish purple from the flash with blue spots and lines, a little brownish fin and puckered lips that look like they're smoking something. The green reef with coral and sponges is in the background.
A determined looking grackle walks confidently ahead on the grass. The bird is mostly black but with a shimmer of blue and purples.
Two baby drum fish intertwined. Little black and white fish with swooping fins swim above the algae and look up at the camera.
A delicate cleaner shrimp on the coral and next to corkscrew anemone. The shrimp has a purple and pink body with long white antennae. The anemone has greenish swirly tentacles.
The butts of a mom and baby agouti walking on the rocky ground with dead leaves and bits of watermelon around them.
Three fairy basslets in the reef. The fish have purple-ish blue heads that fate into yellow tails. The background is black and there is lit up reef to the right.
A delicate banded coral shrimp with long white antennae and orange and white spiky legs and tiny white claws. It's tucked inside a crevasse in a brownish-orange giant barrel sponge.
I crab with long thin legs climbing on coral in the reef.
Colorful stoplight parrotfish - blue body with pink and yellow in its fins and pink around its scales. Little yellow wrasse fish (I think) are cleaning it as it rests at a cleaning station. Blueish and purple corals and sponges are around it on the ocean floor.
A tiny green blenny fish poking out of a yellow and orange colored star coral. The blenny has its mouth open and its face is green.
Four penguins standing along the edge of the water looking at one that's still in the water.
Two penguins stand near each other facing in the same direction. They are standing near the water between some large brown boulders.