
A meerkat gets up to eye-level with the visitors to the Melbourne Zoo.
- Aperture: ƒ/11
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- Focal length: 150mm
- ISO: 4000

A meerkat gets up to eye-level with the visitors to the Melbourne Zoo.

A ring-tailed lemur perched up high on Lemur Island in the Melbourne Zoo.

A ring-tailed lemur on Lemur Island in the Melbourne Zoo. This is one part of the Zoo where the animals a free to roam amongst the humans. Keepers are posted to remind that people to maintain their distance.

A moon jelyfish in the Wild Sea centre in the Melbourne Zoo.

A red panda on the ground in the Melbourne Zoo. For around 40 years these were the only species of panda, until western scientists “discovered” the giant panda. We now know that red pandas are more closely related to weasels, skunks and raccoons than their panda namesakes, who are bears.

A male orangutan enjoys an afternoon nap in Melbourne Zoo.

A siamang is distracted momentarily from the bowl of treats. Siamangs are the largest of the gibbons, and the ones with the darkest coloured fur.

A Rainforest Tree Katydid (Phricta spinosa), or spiny tree cricket, in the Melbourne Zoo.

The underside of a Common Eggfly Butterfly (hypolimnas bolina) in the Butterfly House at the Melbourne Zoo.

An Orchard Swallowtail butterfly in the Butterfly House at the Melbourne Zoo.