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

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)

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

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.

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...

And the name (midas) is brilliant as well.

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.