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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 23, 2004  

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Where Simen Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, Africa
When 2002
Photographer Michael Nichols

"Geladas' dextrous hands are grass-plucking machines, moving as many as 150 blades a minute from soil to mouth. In drier times the monkeys bend their wrists and pound the earth with rigid fingers to get at the roots down under."

—From "Kings of the Hill?," November 2002, National Geographic magazine

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