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August 13, 2003
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Mpassa, Gabon, Africa
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Michael K. Nichols
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A rehabilitator cradles a sleeping gorilla whose mother has been killed. This interaction is part of the process that PPG (Projet Protection des Gorilles) implements to encourage orphaned gorillas to form their own social groups.
(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Central Africa's Orphan Gorillas," February 2000, National Geographic magazine)
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