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Baboon Ride, Africa, 1996

Photo: Baboon Ride
Baboons share their water sources with an assortment of African wildlife, including elephants, wild dogs, herons, and Cape buffalo.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Chris Johns

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