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Photo Ark – An effort to document every species living in zoos and sanctuaries

86 points by thdrdt 6y ago

Y-bar 6y ago
Is this site using some automated translation service? I get crazy odd names for the species when I visit from a Swedish IP address. Examples: > Graycrowned Crane > Grå krontrana (Swedish name) > Grå krönad kran (NG namn) Or > White-backed vulture > Vitryggig gam (Swedish name) > Vitryggad gös & Vitryggade gärningen (NG names)
- Ma8ee 6y ago
  This is horrible! Everywhere the English is mixed with bad translations to Swedish! Who thought this was a good idea?
  - kbr2000 6y ago
    Undoubtedly it was a species at risk!
nathancahill 6y ago
Be sure to click through to the Explore page since it's not immediately obvious.
- lentil_soup 6y ago
  Direct link: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/explore/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/explor...
VMG 6y ago
One of the most infuriating aspects is that some of these are completely preventable with no real costs. There are a number of animals are hunted for their supposed "medical properties" in TCM.
mapleoin 6y ago
I find this amazing. I am still finding animals which look like somebody made them up, here is the bat-griffon: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal/saguinus-midas/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal... And the name (midas) is brilliant as well.
- blorenz 6y ago
  This collection is an inspiration for illustrators. What an emotional range this guy https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal/cacajao-calvus/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal... has in his photos! I can see some Orc-inspiring features in him as well.
bryanmgreen 6y ago
Truly great endeavor. If you have the chance to see this as an exhibit in a museum, 100% do so. Getting up close to the level of detail you’ll see in giant prints is special. Joel Sartore, the photographer, shares the photos to his Instagram account and is worth a follow as well. Sometimes even runs promos for prints. Lastly, their merch is also worth a pickup - it’s high quality art, I have the printed photo book - and helps support the project of documenting all these creatures.
mthoms 6y ago
It would be great if these were released under some kind of open licensing. Requiring a backlink/credit would do wonders for promoting the project as these would likely get used across all kinds of professional and amateur media. Then again, these pics obviously took an extraordinary amount of skill/travel/equipment so it's perfectly understandable that they aren't freely licensed.

86 points by thdrdt 6y ago

Is this site using some automated translation service? I get crazy odd names for the species when I visit from a Swedish IP address. Examples: > Graycrowned Crane > Grå krontrana (Swedish name) > Grå krönad kran (NG namn) Or > White-backed vulture > Vitryggig gam (Swedish name) > Vitryggad gös & Vitryggade gärningen (NG names)

Ma8ee 6y ago
This is horrible! Everywhere the English is mixed with bad translations to Swedish! Who thought this was a good idea?
- kbr2000 6y ago
  Undoubtedly it was a species at risk!

nathancahill 6y ago

Be sure to click through to the Explore page since it's not immediately obvious.

lentil_soup 6y ago
Direct link: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/explore/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/explor...

VMG 6y ago

One of the most infuriating aspects is that some of these are completely preventable with no real costs. There are a number of animals are hunted for their supposed "medical properties" in TCM.

mapleoin 6y ago

I find this amazing. I am still finding animals which look like somebody made them up, here is the bat-griffon: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal/saguinus-midas/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal... And the name (midas) is brilliant as well.

blorenz 6y ago
This collection is an inspiration for illustrators. What an emotional range this guy https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal/cacajao-calvus/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/photo-ark/animal... has in his photos! I can see some Orc-inspiring features in him as well.

bryanmgreen 6y ago

Truly great endeavor. If you have the chance to see this as an exhibit in a museum, 100% do so. Getting up close to the level of detail you’ll see in giant prints is special. Joel Sartore, the photographer, shares the photos to his Instagram account and is worth a follow as well. Sometimes even runs promos for prints. Lastly, their merch is also worth a pickup - it’s high quality art, I have the printed photo book - and helps support the project of documenting all these creatures.

mthoms 6y ago

It would be great if these were released under some kind of open licensing. Requiring a backlink/credit would do wonders for promoting the project as these would likely get used across all kinds of professional and amateur media. Then again, these pics obviously took an extraordinary amount of skill/travel/equipment so it's perfectly understandable that they aren't freely licensed.