Look At These Beautiful And Haunting Photos Of African Wildlife

These pictures, taken by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), present pictures of African animals within the Zambezi area of Namibia.

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The pictures have been taken utilizing a number of “digital camera traps” – a digital camera arrange in order that it mechanically triggers when an animal walks in entrance of it.

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Burrard-Lucas labored with researcher Lise Hanssen who has been learning the animals within the area for years.

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“Most of the photographs are of shy animals that reside outdoors National Parks,” Burrard-Lucas advised BuzzFeed over e-mail. “In reality, most of the particular person creatures proven have by no means been photographed in 'excessive definition' earlier than.”

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“The biggest problem of all was photographing the lions,” Burrard-Lucas wrote in a blog post. “These cats spend a lot of their time outdoors the nationwide parks and are extraordinarily shy. Even Lise has by no means seen them aside from on her analysis cameras. I arrange two digital camera traps close to waterholes that the lions typically go to. In the three months that my traps have been working, the lions handed by twice, leading to some very uncommon photographs of those secretive massive cats.”