PHOTO OF THE DAY September 26, 2004  

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Where Simen Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
When 2001
Photographer Michael Nichols

A family group of gelada baboons, Theropithecus gelada, gather in a mutual grooming session—an activity which serves to strengthen the family bonds.

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


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