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Not sure if I scared the poor fella or he was just hungry ! Taken on a

photography day with a profesional and a borrowed 100- 400 4.5 - 5.6 is

usm L series lens. Hope you like it ? Thanks for looking...Brendan

Really a nice image.  I can almst give him human qualities.  He looks curious about what you're doing and he's very interested.  But there's some tension and that's shown with his finger in his mouth, kind of a nervous tick.  Really a great expression and wonderful bokeh, must ne a nice lens.

He is not nervous.  He bites his nails because he has no other way to shorten them - apes have not yet invented clippers.  Just imagine how early human clipped their toenails.  

If you watch the gorillas for hours at the zoo you may discover some other habits they have that will make you ill - for instance, when eating many foods that they do extract all useful minerals from the first time, they recycle.

Jerry

Amazing portrait Brendan!

PDE

a lovely portrait of our ancestral couzin... nice deatils without being over sharp... seems to be a wonderful lens... and a fine work of photography