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Thomas D. Mangelsen (born January 6, 1946) is an American nature and wildlife photographer and conservationist. He is most famous for his photography of wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, as he has lived inside the zone in Jackson, Wyoming, for over 40 years. In 2015, he and nature author Todd Wilkinson created a book, The Grizzlies ...
The Cougar Fund is a 501 (c)3 non-profit educational organization based in Jackson, Wyoming, concerned with protecting the cougar throughout the Americas. The Cougar Fund educates the public on the value of cougars in nature and promotes the gathering and application of sound science in their management. Important to The Cougar Fund is an ethic ...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual international wildlife photography competition staged by the Natural History Museum in London, England. There is an exhibition of the winning and commended images each year at the museum, which later tours around the world. The event has been described as one of the most prestigious photography ...
Catch of the Day is a 1988 wildlife photograph taken by Thomas D. Mangelsen at Brooks Falls in Alaska 's Katmai National Park and Preserve. It depicts a sockeye salmon that has leapt from the water into an Alaskan brown bear 's open mouth, in the last instant before the bear closes it and eats the fish. It has been described as "iconic" [1] [2 ...
1996 (age 27–28) Pilgrim Creek, Wyoming. Years active. 2005–present. Offspring. Grizzly 610, 18 total children, numerous grandchildren. 399 with her four cubs around 7:30 pm June 19, 2020, near the river by Signal Mountain Lodge. Grizzly 399 (born 1996) is a grizzly bear inhabiting Grand Teton National Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest ...
In a jungle in India, where it would be deadly to be on foot, Mangelsen climbed onto an elephant's back for a shot of a Bengal tiger -- paws red, fresh from a kill." to "Mangelsen especially likes the "dangerous kind", whether it be riding an elephant to shoot a Bengal tiger or getting too close to male Polar bears who were play fighting". The ...
Josef Rudolf Mengele ([ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ⓘ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel), [1] he performed deadly experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp ...
Thomas Edison has been honored twice with two different U.S. postage stamps. The first was released in 1929 at Menlo Park, NJ, two years before his death; a 2-cent red , on the 50th anniversary of his invention of the incandescent light, and again in 1947, 3-cent violet, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, first released in Milan, Ohio , his ...