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Humpback Whale, Gabon, 2003

In a boat off the coast of Gabon, Africa, Michael Nichols, a National Geographic photographer, rode the waves made by male humpback whales vying for a female.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the Land of the surfing Hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Michael K. Nichols