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23 July 2004 Lake Nakuru National Park

Peace And Harmony

A group of baboons, egrets, and buffalo were already stirring and looking for breakfast when the sun rose on this cool early morning. The wilderness has always projected an image of danger and hostility but I think this image evidently expresses that there is also peace and harmony in this melting pot of animals in Kenya's wilderness.


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Guest 18-Aug-2006 21:05
This graceful image could become a poster for global community and interdependence with three species (the ones that are visible!) peacefully sharing a small area. The baboons function as lookouts, the bovine crops the grass and reveals bugs for the egrets, the birds actually groom the bovine of pests and receive protection around him. I love the explosion of white birds against the muted earth. Nature has figured out ways of various animals living around and with one another in mutually respectful symbiosis -- something that people haven't yet accomplished -- and this photograph proves it.