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June 06, 2008

Hamadryas Baboon, Ethiopia, 2005

Photograph by Carsten Peter

The hamadryas baboons of eastern Africa live in small groups of several females and their offspring, led by one male. The largest of all monkeys, baboons spend almost all of their time on the ground, where they are vulnerable to leopards and cheetahs.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Africa's Danakil Desert: Cruelest Place on Earth," October 2005, National Geographic magazine)

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