Raoul Manten

The World...
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I love to travel and while doing so try to capture powerful images. With these photo's I would like to tell the stories behind diminishing tribal cultures and wildlife. And more important share the beauty of what the world has to offer!

On my blog you can read about the (sometimes unexpected) encounters I had during my trips around the world, with nature and the fascinating people living on the different continents.

My basic equipment is a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II digital SLR camera with a 70-200mm zoom objective, which I sometimes replace by a 24-70mm wide angle lens.

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    Male Gelada (bleeding heart baboon) covered in flowers and leaves. This photo was taken in January 2010 in Simien Mountains National Park (at the northern border of Ethiopia), where this large lion like endemic primate spends most of his time grazing in the mountain grasslands on the central Ethiopian plateau at an altitude of 3000 meters. The male Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) can be easily distinguished by the bright red hourglass-shaped patch of skin on its chest, which gave this spices the nickname “bleeding heart baboon”. Geladas are the only primates that are primarily graminivorous and grazers and have small, sturdy fingers adapted for pulling grass and dig for roots. Besides their handsome appearance and the beauty of their habitat the most fascinating aspect of these animals is their social structure which is the most complex in the animal kingdom after that of man. Grouped into herds of up to 400 individuals, organized in “harems” from 2 to 8 females and young ones with one dominant male. Each harem often has one hanger-on called a “follower”, who ingratiates himself with the juvenile females, with a view to enticing them away in due course and forming his own harem. Harem owning males do not attempt to steal each others’ wives.

    Male Gelada (bleeding heart baboon) covered in flowers and leaves.

    This photo was taken in January 2010 in Simien Mountains National Park (at the northern border of Ethiopia), where this large lion like endemic primate spends most of his time grazing in the mountain grasslands on the central Ethiopian plateau at an altitude of 3000 meters.

    The male Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) can be easily distinguished by the bright red hourglass-shaped patch of skin on its chest, which gave this spices the nickname “bleeding heart baboon”. Geladas are the only primates that are primarily graminivorous and grazers and have small, sturdy fingers adapted for pulling grass and dig for roots.

    Besides their handsome appearance and the beauty of their habitat the most fascinating aspect of these animals is their social structure which is the most complex in the animal kingdom after that of man. Grouped into herds of up to 400 individuals, organized in “harems” from 2 to 8 females and young ones with one dominant male. Each harem often has one hanger-on called a “follower”, who ingratiates himself with the juvenile females, with a view to enticing them away in due course and forming his own harem. Harem owning males do not attempt to steal each others’ wives.

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    Thick-billed raven sitting on a fence overseeing his territory. This photo was taken in January 2010 in the Simien Mountains National Park (in the north of Ethiopia near the border of Eritrea), where this endemic bird is easily recognized by its distinctive large curved, white-tipped bill.

    Thick-billed raven sitting on a fence overseeing his territory.

    This photo was taken in January 2010 in the Simien Mountains National Park (in the north of Ethiopia near the border of Eritrea), where this endemic bird is easily recognized by its distinctive large curved, white-tipped bill.

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    “Ethiopia is considered to be the land of origin of the first human species, and that is justified by the discovery of a skeleton dating 3.2 million years back. The Paleo Anthropologist, who found the bones in 1974 called her “Lucy”, after listening to the song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” from the Beatles during the excavation.”

    Ethiopia fun fact nr. 8

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