Gold Winner

Licking Snow

Photographer

Chin Leong Teo

Category

Nature Photography - Wildlife

Company

www.teochinleong.com

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2022

Country / Region

Singapore

Japanese macaques are the northern-most living non-human primates in the world. They are well adapted to live in sub-zero conditions. Despite this, they seemed to be strangely curious about freshly fallen snow.

During a nature trip in Japan, I caught a group of Japanese macaques spontaneously licking freshly fallen snow off each other’s fur. It was as if they are experiencing snow for the first time!

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