PHOTO OF THE DAY February 2, 2006  

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

A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.

—From "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the land of the surfing hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine

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