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PHOTO OF THE DAY January 16, 2003  

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Where Mpassa Reserve (Proposed), Gabon
When 1998
Photographer Michael K. Nichols

“Clinging to a surrogate parent, six-month-old Kongo arrived at Mpassa scarred by machete wounds and infested with mites. He bit caretakers and shied from other gorillas. ... [Now] Kongo has regained his health and discovered his position in the gorilla social order.”

—From “Orphan Gorillas,” February 2000, National Geographic magazine


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