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Actual Ape

@anthroprof.bsky.social

Cultural anthropologist, nature lover, Scuba enthusiast, pro LGBTQIA+ rights, justice, democracy, Ukraine. Research focus: Post-Soviet Russia. Formerly at Post. Politically engaged but will mostly post photos.

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Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2d ago

It wasn't me! I swear it was the trunk fish that stirred up the sand! #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A trunk fish poking its nose into the sand. The trunk fish is brown and white with honeycomb shapes on the side of its body and white dots on on top and on its tail end.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2d ago

Mating ritual? Song and dance routine? Grackles on the beach in Cozumel. #birds #photography

Two grackles in the sand. One is picking something up with its beak and the other is looking at it and calling out.

Two grackles in the sand. Both are walking with their beaks up and, and one is calling out.

Two grackles in the sand. One is looking over and the other looks like it's doing the side step. A small shell or some other white object is in the sand between them.

Two grackles walking in a circle with their heads jutting out in front of them.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 3d ago

The suspicious toothy grin of the lizard fish. It was kind enough the remain in place until I could get low enough to capture its entire body. Usually they swim away as soon as I attempt a shot. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A lizard fish rests on the bottom of the sea on a patch of sea algae. The fish has a yellow mouth with tiny teeth. It's facing the camera and its body is about a foot long and is covered with brown, green and orange patterns. Its eye looks blues with a red ring around it.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 3d ago

A stoplight parrotfish juvenile and its cleaner goby buddy. It looks so different from the adult version! With this coloring it blends in nicely with the coral. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

Two small fish swimming above some yellow and greenish coral with marine algae here and there. The top fish is a juvenile stoplight parrot fish and is about two inches long, brown, white spots and yellow face and orange eyes. The lower fish is a cleaner goby and is about one inch with black and white stripes and a bit of yellow towards the back end.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 4d ago

All tangled up in the sea. Spiny brittlestar entwined with the coral. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A spiny brittle start - red body with little black spines - entwined with yellow sea rod coral

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 4d ago

A nice orange and green sea life composition. I believe this tiny fish is a juvenile green blotch parrotfish, despite being orange at this stage of life. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

An orange colored juvenile green blotch parrotfish on the backdrop of greenish soft corals, sea fans, marine algae and an orange sea sponge.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 5d ago

Little trumpetfish trying out its Medusa costume. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A little orange and brown trumpet fish swimming into some yellowish green coral.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 5d ago

Translucent white on white. Little sand gobies resting on the bottom of the reef. One's hiding. Can you see it? #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A bunch of little translucent sand gobies are resting in the sand at the bottom of the reef. One is looking out from under something in the reef. The colors are muted, sandy, beige and a little red.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 6d ago

A solitary swimmer. Tiny goby inside a giant barrel sponge. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A tiny black and white goby fish swims along the inside edge of a giant barrel sponge.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 7d ago

A couple of sharknose gobies swimming out of the abyss. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

Two little black and white striped fish swimming upward from the darkness with a cluster of green algae in the upper right corner.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 7d ago

A yellowhead wrasse (I think) standing out on the bottom of the reef. Love its eye decorations. #MarineLife #scuba #photography #Cozumel

I believe this is a yellowhead wrasse - it's bright yellow, small, long and has little black squiggly lines behind its eyes.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 7d ago

Reef scene. It doesn't highlight any one creature, but I like how this captures a snapshot of the diversity found on the reef. #MarineLife #scuba #photography #Cozumel

A scene from the reef in Cozumel. Little orange gobies - I think masked or glass gobies poke out in the bottom, a banded shrimp is up in the top, a green sea urchin and bits of coral and sea algae frame the photo.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think this snapper is being transported to a different realm. You never know what you'll capture down below the sea. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A snapper swims by and the water seems to be taking it to a different realm in the universe, maybe teleportation or entering the a new dimension.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just a couple of white spotted file fish doing their thing in the sea. #MarineLife #photography #scuba

A spotted file fish swimming above some coral at the bottom of the sea.

A spotted filefish swimming along the sandy bottom of the sea and poking its nose into some coral.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was so excited to see this - a baby slender filefish! It's only about one inch long and it completely blends in with the background. I'm not sure how big this species gets, but we saw other file fish that were two feet long, so this was very cute! #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A baby slender filefish (I think) blending in among the coral, algae and the purple sponges.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can you spot the blenny? It blends in pretty nicely with the sand. This is a close up of this tiny fish. #photography #MarineLife #scuba

A little blenny hidden in the sand on the ocean floor.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

This time is spotted something worth diving for! Camp Bay Beach, Roatan. #birds #photography

A pelican flying with its wings curved forward as it looks down at the water.

A pelican starting to dive down into the water.

A pelican beak down and feet upward as it dives straight into the water.

A pelican's tail feathers peaking out of the water after it dove in.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Almost ready to dive, but then it changed its mind. Camp Bay Beach, Roatan. #birds #photography

A pelican flying with its wings forward against the cloudy sky.

A pelican flying with its wings spread out in front of the cloudy sky.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Soaring high before the big dive. Camp Bay Beach, Roatan. #birds #photography

A pelican soars high in the sky with it's wings wide apart and a cloudy blue sky in the background.

A pelican soars in the sky with its wings spread out wide.

A pelican flies with its wings spread out wide with the gray-ish blue sky behind it and sun catching its wing feathers.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not sure I like the way that vulture's looking at me! #birds #photography #Cozumel

A black vulture stands on the sidewalk next to some green bushes and looks slightly at the camera.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Don't worry - it eventually got down, but not before some rather awkward maneuvers! #photography #WildLife #Brooklyn

A raccoon hanging from a rung of a clothesline ladder with green trees in the background.

A raccoon climbing through the rungs of a clothesline ladder upside down.

View of the clothesline ladder poking up above the trees with houses and taller trees in the background.

A raccoon in a predicament upside down on a clothesline ladder with green trees in the background.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

This little acrobat woke me up with screeching sounds at 6 am! Its friend ran away before I got my camera, but this one showed off its climbing skills for quite a while. #photography #WildLife #Brooklyn

A raccoon climbing on a ladder that used to be a clothes line. The ladder pokes up into the tree tops. The top of a white building and its air conditioning units are in the background. The raccoon is looking at the camera and is right side up.

A raccoon on the clothes line ladder upside down.

A raccoon with front paws on one rung and hind paws on the lower rung of the clothes line ladder.

A raccoon with front paws on the lower rung and back paws on the upper rung of the clothes line ladder.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's a horrible photo, but the expressions on these two fish make me laugh every time I look at it. They seem dumbfounded by what they are seeing. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

Two chalk bass fish looking up from the sand. They are white fish with blue and brown stripes.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

The fancy legs and translucent body of the Pederson cleaner shrimp. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A small shrimp on the floor of the reef. The hind legs are long with purple specks. It's body is translucent, and it has long antennae.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

With a close-up you can see the delicate blue markings that decorate the little sharpnose pufferfish. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

Close up of a sharpnose puffer fish in front of a pinkish sponge and surrounded by algae. The sharpnose puffer has a greenish body and delicate blue markings on its body, face and around its eyes, and its face has an orange tint.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Orange on orange. What appears to be an orange goby on an orange sponge next to a sharpnose pufferfish. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A tiny orange fish - I think a goby - swims over an orange sponge. To the right a sharpnose pufferfish swims over some algae. The little blue markings stand out on the pufferfish's face, and the orange sponge seems to bring out the orange tones of the pufferfish as well.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sometimes even a bland composition can be exciting just because you so rarely capture a decent picture of a particular type of fish. The foureye butterfly fish is one of those that I struggle to capture at all, so I consider this a success! #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A four eyed butterfly fish swimming over some coral. A mostly yellow fish, round-ish but slender body with black stripes, a black dot at the rear and black eyes, and a little snouty nose.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 3w ago

A simple close-up composition with a French angelfish. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A French angelfish swims down to the bottom of the reef. Gray with yellow edges to its fins, yellow around its eyes and white around its mouth. It's swimming toward green algae and a pinkish brown barrel sponge.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 3w ago

A white spotted filefish blending in with the reef. Whoa, look at those teeth! #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A white spotted filefish looking up at the camera. This one is kind of greenish with pale spots, a yellow ring ring around its eye and some yellow in its fins. It's mouth is open and you can see is snaggleteeth. It looks like green algae and a yellow sponge behind it.

Actual Ape @anthroprof.bsky.social · 3w ago

The always expressive sharpnose pufferfish! Swimming among the sponges in Cozumel. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

A little sharpnose pufferfish swimming among the branches of orange sea sponge. The fish is about two inches long, white underneath and brown on top with little blue markings around its eyes and on its nose