Still going through those old shots from Cairngorm’s Wildlife is this JPEG shot that for some reason has a lot of vignetting. I remembered the name but had to check the spelling of Przewalski.

The horse is recogniseable straight away because of the shape of its head and because the head is big for the body, and the body itself is stocky.

Przewalski’s horses also used to be at Marwell Safari Park but for the past twenty years the horses have been Eelmoor Marsh SSSI in Hampshire, near Farnborough, and managed by Marwell Wildlife.

Przewalski’s horses are the only truly a wild species. They are native to the steppes of Asia and their last home was on the Mongolian plains, but now extinct in the wild but being reintroduced. Were it not for wildlife parks like the Cairngorms and Marwell, that would be the end for them

They are the only truly wild horse, meaning not a wild horse descended from domestic horses, like for example mustangs.

I was looking through some old files and came across these Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys.

I photographed at the Cairngorm Wildlife Reserve in 2014. I mistakenly shot JPEG rather than RAW, which doesn’t bring the best out of the camera and lens. I shot with a Nikon D7000 and 70-300mm f4,.5 – f5.6 Nikon lens at 95mm. That’s equivalent to a 142mm lens on full frame. The EXIF data says I shot at f5.6 at 1/500th second and ISO 400.

The reason I am putting them up here is that I find time and time again that cameras and lenses that I grew dissatisfied with turn out later have been perfectly OK.

Memo to self to stop searching for bigger and better?

I wonder at what these Japanese macaques were looking so intently?

Each macaque, it seems, has a different expression and a different attitude to whatever it is they are looking at.

They’re nice, aren’t they.