PHOTO OF THE DAY May 24, 2005  

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Where Gabon, Africa
When 2003
Photographer Michael Nichols

A different species from the savanna-dwelling African elephant, the forest elephant lives in the dense jungle of central and western Africa.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gabon's Loango National Park," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)


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