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Photo of the Day

October 06, 2003

 

Photo: Baboon Ride

Baboon Ride, Africa, 1996

Photograph by Chris Johns

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)

 

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