37 Cute Wild Animals Disturbing Wildlife Photographers’ Work

Some wild critters tend to shy away from cameras, though these curious animals showed absolutely no signs of fear as they approached these photographers, some of which even hung out for a while. It doesn’t get any more wild than this!

The fox happened to be rather friendly, much thanks to the fact that he was raised by a local forester. The curious fox clearly wanted a peek around Dan’s lens.

Some say that Radova was taking care of these two animals, which were orphaned at the time. There’s no doubt these two balls of fluff are adorable.

During his time in the plains, he spent six days capturing the life of an adorable family of meerkats. The babies eventually became curious about what Will had to offer. 

In the photo above, you can see a young Eurasian fox piggybacked on top of Gary Mann as he keeps his calm and shoots forward. 

Art has been shooting since the 1970s and has had plenty of close encounters with wild animals during his time in the field.

This photo was taken at the incredible Tshukudu Game Lodge in Hoedspruit, South Africa. The photo perfectly balances what looks dangerous and powerful, with a feeling that is sweet and endearing.

At the time, the news crew was shooting footage at an Australian zoo when they captured this seemingly adorable koala auditioning for a job as a camera operator. He was certainly an innovative little fella.

This little inquisitive monkey wanted to see what was going on through the eye hole of this photographer’s camera. It isn’t unusual to hear about interactions like this between monkeys and humans. 

Most bears would prefer to stay away from humans, though sometimes, in unexpected predicaments, they will go on unique adventures and take up hobbies like photography. That camera belongs to the grizzly now!

Plus, as most of us know, they aren’t shy about coming out during the day. This little squirrel was caught on film trying to operate this photographer’s Nikon camera. 

And, in this case, there wasn’t much this photographer could do to get their camera back from this full-grown lioness. While out on the hunt, she stole this photographer’s camera to give to her cubs. Who knows, it may have been an early birthday present. 

Not only does he crouch in front of him in the grass to get his portrait taken, but he also seems to come around to the viewing side as if he was looking to see how he looked in his photo.

Let’s hope that this photographer didn’t flinch while these kangaroos were crawling into his long lens, or they may have called the whole pack on him.

There is no doubt that monkeys are absolutely fascinating creatures to observe, as they love to socialize and are extremely intelligent. This one looks like it just found a brand-new toy.

This little meerkat decided to take a ride on the back of his wildlife photographer friend. While he was likely on the lookout for the rest of his mob, you could almost imagine him saying, “hang ten!”

Pair that with the fact that this owl is seemingly having a staredown contest with the camera, and you have an unlikely image.

With about 5,000 to 7,000 tigers left on Earth, there are only about 200 white tigers. So, not only was this photographer likely astounded when this baby white tiger crawled on his head, he was also quite lucky to have a moment with one at all.

Though she has had plenty of incredible photos taken with leopards, elephants, snakes, and more, nothing quite beats this photo of her with a bushy, bright-eyed lemur pouncing off of her camera.

However, when wildlife photographer David Schultz set up his camera to capture penguins in their natural habitat, they were very interested to see what was going on with his equipment, making for an incredibly silly penguin photo.

This eager beaver was a bit different, however, deciding to take a chance and hone his own skills as a photographer. Apparently, Kanzler had to hide apple slices in his camera to get this unique shot.

It’s wild that an animal of this size showed no fear, simply looking for a snack that allowed Roy to get this unique shot. He may be only a few inches tall, but he’s one of the most courageous little guys we’ve ever seen.

It seems he was able to capture these cutre squirrels by leaving a pine cone nut in the clearing for them to fight over.

In many ways, Keith Kirk’s wife beat him at his own game by snapping this incredible photo of the European eagle owl that landed on his lens while he was peering through the viewfinder. 

This little fox is a frequent guest of the garden of Giedrius Stakauskas, a renowned animal photographer. 

This photo from Tim Sparks was taken on a location scout in Colorado a few years back, and was photoshopped with a grizzly stock image so that the crew could freak out their friends on Facebook. Looks legit to us!

The pack began slowly circling him, potentially trying to figure out what he was doing there, before climbing on top of him and each other in a playful manner. There’s a surprising lack of cunning for a pack of wild wolves.

When this little squirrel was presented the opportunity, it decided to crawl inside of Dalia Kvedaraite’s camera for a little afternoon snack. Nothing like the hull of a camera lens to protect yourself from the icy cold!

What’s hilarious about this photo is that the fox she was looking for to shoot was the one that popped up right behind her. Meanwhile, her buddy Tommy Angelsen was their to capture the hilarity on camera.

Seeing this photo from John Green of a ton of monkeys crawling all over his camera makes us wonder if he ever got it back. Regardless, it’s an awesome shot of a bunch of little monkeys doing their thing!

This little photo of captured up on a high summit shows an alpine marmot sticking his head into the long lens of the wildlife photographer’s camera as he peers through the viewfinder. We wonder what he thought he’d find in there!

That makes it all the more terrifying for this wildlife photographer, who was seemingly oblivious to the fact that he had a massive stag sneaking up behind him.

We suppose she was lucky it was just a baby!

However, this Alaskan grizzly seemed to be pretty chill when he came up to take a seat next to this wildlife photographer while he was out shooting and fishing. Let’s just remember that this thing is 1,500 pounds and wildly territorial!

Good thing for this wildlife photographer, who got an absolutely astounding photo from it!

Much of that probably has to do with the fact that cheetahs are insanely rare to get close to and some of the biggest cats on the planet!

Well, we shouldn’t say little. The surprise was, in fact, a massive gray wolf sneaking up close behind them. Luckily, the two were okay!