Images Dated 13th December 2010

VEK00266

Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), male showing the brilliant red skin patch on chest. Not true baboons; the last surviving species of a once widespread group of grass-grazing primates. Semien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

© Michael vann Ewijk/AUSCAPE All rights reserved

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