PHOTO OF THE DAY July 11, 2005  

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Where Loango National Park, Gabon, Africa
When 2003
Photographer Michael Nichols

"Within a modest radius of ten miles (16.09 kilometers), photographer Michael Nichols found a dramatic sampling of creatures that pass through the Loango area. Canoeing on the Echira River, he surprised an elephant swimming in the murky waters."

—From "Gabon's Loango National Park," August 2004, National Geographic magazine


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