Photo of the Day 250

Gelada Monkey, Ethiopia, 2005

Photograph by Carsten Peter

A gelada monkey sits for a portrait in the Ethiopian highlands. These baboon-size animals are more terrestrial than any other primates except humans. They are the last surviving species of ancient grazing primates that were once numerous.

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