Saw a fair number of animals in Turkey. Here are some I caught on film. This stray cat came up to me outside the Kariye Museum in Istanbul (Turkey is full of stray cats, most looking rather less well fed than this one). The frog below was the only one of the scores who inhabit the ruins of the Basilica of StJohn at Selcuk (named Ayios Theologos/Ayaslug after John until 1914) who let me pick him up.
The lizard makes a home in the amphitheater of Ephesus, which accommodates 24,000 people and many more reptiles. In nearby Selcuk, young storks awaited feeding atop every available site...
The magnificent if somewhat gawky bug below, known apparently as a Prophet's Camel and considered auspicious, posed for me at the nearly perfectly preserved theater at Hierapolis above Pamukkale. The birds below live inside the monument at Lone Pine, Gallipoli. The butterfly calls a big fig tree at the excavations at Troy home.
And to close (since it would be altogether too corny to show you the fiberglass horse on the harbor walk at Pamukkale from the recent Hollywood film "Troy") here's a stork family atop all that remains of the once world renowned temple of Artemis at Ephesus, some of Artemis' companion animals in the Selcuk Museum, and an ant making off with the gossamer wing of some other animal (spolia!).
The magnificent if somewhat gawky bug below, known apparently as a Prophet's Camel and considered auspicious, posed for me at the nearly perfectly preserved theater at Hierapolis above Pamukkale. The birds below live inside the monument at Lone Pine, Gallipoli. The butterfly calls a big fig tree at the excavations at Troy home.
And to close (since it would be altogether too corny to show you the fiberglass horse on the harbor walk at Pamukkale from the recent Hollywood film "Troy") here's a stork family atop all that remains of the once world renowned temple of Artemis at Ephesus, some of Artemis' companion animals in the Selcuk Museum, and an ant making off with the gossamer wing of some other animal (spolia!).
