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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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However recent research has shown that they are in fact not baboons, despite superficial appearances, and they are now just called “Gelada”. In parts of the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia, from which I have just returned, Geladas have been protected from persecution for some time. A harem male grooms one of his females.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

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And the answer to the question I am raising here is, yes, I would travel to Sri Lanka in the next period. Since the 1990s, Briggs has researched and authored several pioneering Bradt Guides to destinations that were then – and in some cases still are – otherwise practically uncharted by the travel publishing industry.

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