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Baby Gelada, Ethiopia, 2001

"Once they're three months old, geladas ride their mothers jockey-style. Females have just four or five babies in a lifetime but invest a lot of time and energy taking care of them—it's a 'quality, not quantity' strategy, says biologist Chadden Hunter, who has spent parts of the past six years with the animals in Ethiopia."

—From "Final Edit," November 2002, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Michael Nichols