Chloe L Porter Photography

Chloe L Porter Photography I love photographing pets, families and wildlife. ❤️

Red Panda, Berlin Zoo, Germany Scientific name: Ailurus fulgens.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500 len...
09/01/2026

Red Panda, Berlin Zoo, Germany 

Scientific name: Ailurus fulgens.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500 lens.

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🔺️ 5 Facts About Red Pandas

1. Red pandas are also known as “lesser pandas” or “firefoxes”

2. hey have a special false thumb that helps them grip bamboo

3. When threatened, they may stand on their hind legs to look bigger

4. They use their long, fluffy tails for balance and to keep warm

5. Red pandas are listed as Endangered by the IUCN with fewer than 10,000 left in the wild

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Aperture: F7.1

Iso: 800

Shutter Speed: 1/800s

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Neron and Maya, The Big Cat Sactuary.Scientific name: Panthera onca.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500...
29/11/2025

Neron and Maya, The Big Cat Sactuary.

Scientific name: Panthera onca.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500 lens.

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🔺️ Did you know❓

Today is

🔺3 Facts about Melanistic Jaguars :

1. Black jaguars are sometimes misidentified as black panthers, which are not actually a species but a term popularly used for melanistic leopards and jaguars which have dark pigmentation. Both black big cats are part of the genus Panthera but leopards are found in Africa and Asia while jaguars are found in the Americas.

2. This black cat isn’t all black

A rare variant within the jaguar species, it’s estimated only 11 per cent of jaguars have this dark colouration. But while the black jaguar may appear to be all black, it has spots like other jaguars called “rosettes.” If you look closely at our black jaguar adoption, it boasts these unique rosettes, too.

3. Black jaguars live alone, marking their large territories with their s**t and by leaving distinctive claw markings on trees. They can kill just about any type of prey they encounter but prefer large animals such as capybaras, alligators, deer and armadillos.

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Aperture: F6.3
Iso: 800
Shutter Speed: 1/1250s

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Swans, Rickmansworth Aquadrome, Hertfordshire, UK.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 - 300.------------------...
22/07/2025

Swans, Rickmansworth Aquadrome, Hertfordshire, UK.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 - 300.

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Typically, these birds live in temperate climates in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, though different species of swans live in different habitats. They inhabit a variety of natural and manmade bodies of water, including freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers, canals, swamps, marshes, and coastal inlets. Swans are mainly herbivorous. They eat aquatic plants but sometimes also ingest small aquatic animals. As they paddle on the surface of the water, they use their long necks to reach the vegetation below.

🦢 Swans mate for life, and they perform an elaborate courtship dance to cement their bond. They typically breed during the spring or summer, with some species traveling to the Arctic in flocks to do so. They build huge nests at the edge of the water, where a female swan lays between three and eight eggs. Both parents take turns incubating the eggs. When hatched, cygnets stay with their parents for several months before joining a flock. 🦢

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Aperture: F6.3
Iso: 500.
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A variety of different plants in my garden, Hertfordshire, UK.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the kit lens and a raynox ...
22/07/2025

A variety of different plants in my garden, Hertfordshire, UK.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the kit lens and a raynox dcr-250.

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Summer is officially here … even if the UK weather didn’t get the memo! Now’s the perfect time to dust off those macro lenses and rediscover the beauty in the tiny details. From raindrops on petals to busy little bugs, there’s a whole world waiting to be magnified!

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Aperture: F13

Iso: 4000.

Shutter Speed: 1/1250s

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Ladybird, Hertfordshire, UK.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the kit lens and a raynox dcr-250.--------------------------...
22/07/2025

Ladybird, Hertfordshire, UK.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the kit lens and a raynox dcr-250.

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It’s summer 🌞, the perfect excuse to dust off your lovely macro lens! Chances are, it’s been sitting on the shelf for far too long. Treat it (and yourself) to some close-up magic ... the bugs, blooms, and textures are calling!

🔺️ Did you know❓

Ladybugs are also known as lady beetles or ladybird beetles.

They are considered beneficial as they eat other plant-eating insects.

Ladybugs are colorful so they can warn predators not to eat them!

They are beetles, not bugs!

Winter doesn't bother them – they live through it!

Not all ladybugs look the same!

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Aperture: F13
Iso: 4000.
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Bhanu, Asiatic Lion, London Zoo, UK.Scientific name: Panthera Leo Persica.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 ...
22/05/2025

Bhanu, Asiatic Lion, London Zoo, UK.

Scientific name: Panthera Leo Persica.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 - 300 lens.

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🔺️ Did you know❓

* There are only 600 to 700 Asiatic lions remain in the wild and they are found in just a single area, the Gir Forest in Gujarat, India. This is an area that is smaller than Greater London.

*Asian lions are slightly smaller than African lions.  Unlike African lions, the males do not tend to live with the females of their pride unless they’re mating or have a large kill.

* Today, the remaining wild lions are vulnerable to disease, disaster and potential poaching, and have to live alongside a growing human population that also needs the land for cattle and crops.

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Aperture: F5.6.
Iso: 1000.
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Jaguar, Hertfordshire Zoo, UK.Scientific name: Panthera onca.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500 lens.-...
17/05/2025

Jaguar, Hertfordshire Zoo, UK.

Scientific name: Panthera onca.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500 lens.

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🔺️ Did you know❓

The word 'jaguar' comes from the indigenous word 'yaguar', which means 'he who kills with one leap'.

🔺3 Facts about Jaguars :

1. JAGUARS ARE EXCELLENT SWIMMERS.

Unlike many domestic cats, jaguars don’t avoid water. They have adapted to living in wet environments, and can be found swimming in lakes, rivers and wetlands. They are confident swimmers, known to cross large rivers.

2. THEY WILL EAT ALMOST ANYTHING.

Jaguars are opportunistic hunters and can prey upon almost anything they come across. Capybaras, deer, tortoises, iguanas, armadillos, fish, birds and monkeys are just some of the prey that jaguars eat.

They hunt both in the day and at night, traveling long distances.

3. THEY KILL WITH A POWERFUL BITE.

Jaguars have a more powerful bite than any other big cat. Their teeth are strong enough to bite through the thick hides of crocodilians and the hard shells of turtles.

They need powerful teeth and jaws to take down prey three to four times their own weight - usually killing it with a bite to the back of the skull rather than biting the neck or throat like other big cats.

Like other cats, their tongues have sharp-pointed bumps, called papillae, which are used to scrape meat off bones.

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Aperture: F7.1
Iso: 3200
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Endangered Species Day. In honour of today, please see some of my favourite animals on the Endangered Species List.
16/05/2025

Endangered Species Day. In honour of today, please see some of my favourite animals on the Endangered Species List.

Kew Gardens, UK. 📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 - 300 lens.----------------------------------------------...
15/05/2025

Kew Gardens, UK.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 - 300 lens.

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It's been a while since I uploaded images aside from Wildlife, I used to find that these images didn't do so well with my followers. I am however going to start sharing a variety of different images. My main focus will always be wildlife as that's what I adore, but I do also really enjoy photographing architecture, landscapes and flowers. So watch this space. :).

What images would you like to see more of?

Please let me know in the comments below 👇.

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Aperture: F6.3
Iso: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/200s

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Red Panda, ZSL Whipsnade, UK.Scientific name: Ailurus fulgens.📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500 lens....
14/05/2025

Red Panda, ZSL Whipsnade, UK.

Scientific name: Ailurus fulgens.

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 150 - 500 lens.

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🔺️ Did you know❓

Red pandas have two layers of fur, a soft undercoat covered with coarse hairs to insulate them from the mountain chill, and they use their long tail as a wraparound blanket.

Red pandas, grow to about the size of a house cat. They are impressive acrobats that climb and swing on trees in their Asian forest homes, and they once sparked fierce debate about their relationship to giant pandas. Taxonomists previously assigned them to both the raccoon family and the bear family, but DNA research later revealed that they belong to their own unique family (Ailuridae) and genus (Ailurus).

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Aperture: F6.3
Iso: 3200
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Tulips, Kew Gardens, UK. 📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 - 300 lens.--------------------------------------...
12/05/2025

Tulips, Kew Gardens, UK. 

📸 Captured on a Sony A7iii with the Tamron 70 - 300 lens.

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Kew Gardens never ceases to amaze, it is home to one of the world’s most diverse collections of living plants, there’s always something new in bloom. No matter how often I visit, each season brings a fresh burst of colour and life. Spring, with all its vibrant charm, is one of my favourite times of the year and Kew didn’t disappoint. 🌱🌺

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Aperture: F6.3
Iso: 160
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