Mike_Wacht

Meerkat on a Rock

Meerkat on a Rock

This was shot at the Meerkat enclosure at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. There were only a couple of meerkats out in the enclosure, and as peop...
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This was shot at the Meerkat enclosure at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. There were only a couple of meerkats out in the enclosure, and as people started to gather in the viewing area, this little one climbed to the top of a rock to get a better view of us.
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PENTAX K-1

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Aperture 50/10 ISO 800 Shutter 1/400 Focal Length 20000/100

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Columbia, South Carolina, US

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Jan, 2019

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