Cate Reilly, Makala. The Pantanal, Brazil, September 2025 (SINGLE SHOT 2025)

One of many portraits of Makala - the ~18 month-old cub of Patricia, the matriarch of the Pantanl Norte - as he posed for us on a beach on the Rio Piquirí until we lost the light. What a goofball.

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