Image: Jasper Doest/Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012
We are a little bit in love with this monkey man – one of the stars of this year’s Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition currently running at The Natural History Museum in London.
There are 100 knockout images in the exhibition, which runs ’til 3 March, but this chappy’s our fave. He’s a Japanese macaque, obvs, and lives in the Jigokudani Valley of central Japan where he hangs out in hot-spring pools with his mates to stay warm and to socialise. Sensible.
Jasper Doest, the photographer, says that nature’s hot tubs sent the man-monkeys to sleep: ‘It’s such an honour when an animal trusts you enough to fall asleep in front of you,’ says Jasper. ‘I used a close-up shot to capture the moment of tranquillity and to emphasise the human likeness in both face and pleasure.’
We like, Jasper, we like a lot.
19 October 2012 until 3 March 2013
- Adult £10, child and concession £5, family (up to two adults and three children) £27. Free for Members, Patrons and children aged three and under www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto
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