PHOTO OF THE DAY July 28, 2005  

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Where Simen Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
When 2002
Photographer Michael K. Nichols

"Theropithecus gelada, as a gelada is properly called, is the last species in a once great dynasty of grass-grazing primates....Only in the cool heights of the mountain meadows of north-central Ethiopia did a Theropithecus-friendly habitat survive. Today between 100,000 and 200,000 geladas remain in the country."

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kings of the Hill?", November 2002, National Geographic magazine)


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