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Meet the photographer who takes the world’s best animal selfies

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Meet the photographer who takes the world’s best animal selfies
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Known as the modern day ‘Dr. Doolittle’, Irishman Allan Dixon is a photographer and adventurer who’s built a name and career for himself around his extraordinary animal photography – often including Dixon himself in the frame.

When this photographer makes friends in the animal kingdom he takes selfies to prove it!

Allan Dixon, 29, is a real-life Dr. Dolittle who walks with the animals, talks with the animals and even takes Selfies with the animals. The Irish adventurer and photographer has amassed a hilarious collection of selfies with a variety of exotic creatures.

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Meet the animal whisperer who started the animal selfie trend

Adventurer Allan Dixon is an Irish/Canadian, self-taught adventure content marketer with a passion for filming and photography. He won the 2013 ’Best Job in the World’ campaign by Tourism Australia, competing against over half a million contestants. His job was to showcase why Australia is such a great country to travel to. This media enriching experience was the final revelation to peruse a full time career in adventure content marketing.

More recently he is now known as a modern day ‘Dr Dolittle’, Allan’s animal selfies went viral in early 2016 and were featured in countless mainstream media outlets around the world. Instagram themselves featured it, making it amongst one of their most liked photos of all time.

Scroll down for some weird and wacky selfies taken with all creatures great and small. For even more of Allan’s photos, you can follow him on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter

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To promote happiness and inspire you to reconnect with wildlife. We’ve all seen photos of animals alone, they’re great. But it’s when you include a person’s smiling face beside them that you can sense a connection. We are connected and need them as much as they need us.
The reason I capture animal selfies: To promote happiness and inspire you to reconnect with wildlife. We’ve all seen photos of animals alone, they’re great. But it’s when you include a person’s smiling face beside them that you can sense a connection. We are connected and need them as much as they need us. Source: Instagram/Daxon
‘Luckily had my camera and tried taking photos of them. But most of the animals were curious and got closer, wanting to sniff me and the camera. They didn’t fit in the picture so I flipped the camera around a took a selfie. The first selfie was with a baby camel in 2013 and have build a collection of over a 100 animal selfies.’ Including this elephant (not taken in Australia).
While traveling throughout Australia Dixon would encounter animals ‘Luckily had my camera and tried taking photos of them. But most of the animals were curious and got closer, wanting to sniff me and the camera. They didn’t fit in the picture so I flipped the camera around a took a selfie. The first selfie was with a baby camel in 2013 and have build a collection of over a 100 animal selfies.’ Including this elephant (not taken in Australia). Source: Instagram/Daxon
Allan and a small giraffe communicating in tongues Source: Instagram/Daxon
Duck! No, seriously….DUCK! Source: Instagram/Daxon
Seal of approval Source: Droomplekken.nl
Wave to the camera! Source: Droomplekken.nl
Who’s the blonde? Source: Droomplekken.nl
Camel karaoke at the oasis Source: Droomplekken.nl
Slow and steady movements not to scare the animal. Lie down on the ground to their level to show them you’re not a threat. You’ll have dirty clothes, but get quality photos being at their eye level. Let the animal sniff and check you out, you’re now in their personal space so let get used to you.
Patience is the number one skill in taking the perfect selfie Slow and steady movements not to scare the animal. Lie down on the ground to their level to show them you’re not a threat. You’ll have dirty clothes, but get quality photos being at their eye level. Let the animal sniff and check you out, you’re now in their personal space so let get used to you. Source: Droomplekken.nl
Mother and baby are doing fine Source: Instagram/Daxon
Caption this! Source: Droomplekken.nl
Monkey Business Source: Facebook/Daxon
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