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  • Searching for salmon in a fishing camp where waters reveal a bear carcass.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman removes the fin from a shark while processing the days catch onboard the boat.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • A captured wild horse eyes his surroundings after loaded onto a trailer following a roundup by the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces and dives into Stephens Passage. Studies how the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns in the summer to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • Axis deer are hunted to eradicate the species.
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  • Volunteers hold feral kittens waiting to be spayed and neutered.
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  • Miners sweep dirt and rock from a coal seam at a small mining operation.
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  • Attorney Brian Glasser briefs some of the 152 frustrated Sylvester, West Virginia citizens who banded together in a lawsuit in an effort to halt the assault on their air. Armed with video taped evidence, photographs, and testimony, the residents proved that black dust blanketed their town from a coal stockpile and preparation plant.<br />
They won but little has changed (the company bought a street sweeper for the community) but it was a moral victory for a group of people who saw property values plummet in the black cloud that hung over their town. None of the 152 mostly retirees had ever been involved in a lawsuit.
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  • A large antlered white-tailed deer pauses at the edge of a forest moving away from the threat of an approaching wild fire.
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  • A cactus forest in the Oaxacan highlands of Mexico. The massive candelabras of the succulent Myrtillocactus geometrizans can grow up to 16 feet tall.
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  • A U.S. Customs Service agent plays with a search dog near trucks crossing at the Mexican border.<br />
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The Canine Enfocement Program is used to combat terrorism, interdict narcotics, and other contraband while helping to facilitate and process legitimate trade and travel.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • A young woman laughing on a street in the Chaoyang district.
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  • A pet lover with her dogs and friends.
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  • A young woman shops for shoes.
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  • People shopping at a mall with cheap goods.
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  • Flower girls and ring boys and a ringbearer at a wedding.
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  • Flower girls at a wedding.
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  • Office workers at computers.
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  • A baby girl is fed by her mother as other women observe.
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  • Dance classes in Li Zi Park.
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  • The gold vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • The gold vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys are cut to make scars during nKumbi manhood initiation rites.
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  • A woman holds her child safely during a domestic dispute incident amon Pygmy family members.
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  • The Mbuti ferry the portable details of their lives from camp to camp. The semi-nomadic tribe hunts and gathers in the Ituri Forest to survive.
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  • Australian Aborigine man with body paint on legs watched by two women.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • A toothsome crocodile resting in a shady area.
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  • Andrea the Crocodile, built in 1987 by vocational students.
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  • High school cheerleaders gather backstage to prepare for their routine at the C ullman County Fair.
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  • A coyote snarls in this close view.
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  • Man holding blue hose, and another handing a tool.
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  • Newborn baby and nurse attendant.
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  • Living in the dust in warn-torn Sudan, a home remedy of cattle dung is all a boy has to treat a lice infestation.
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  • Villagers in the far north of Sudan greet each other before a family wedding in Karima, a northern village. These men rarely see each other. There is no work for them in their villages and most of them work in neighboring countries. Sudan is a difficult place to live if you a not a member of the elite few in Khartoum.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman wields a sharp knife to remove the fin from a shark. Fish are caught and processed onboard while out working for weeks at a time.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.<br />
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Foreign trawlers and an expanding fishmeal industry are increasingly threatening the livelihood of Senegalese fishermen, forcing many to migrate to Europe.
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  • Bloodied baby shark fish carcasses are caught and transported to shore on a factory trawler in Senegal.<br />
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Sharks are in decline from overfishing.
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  • Dried shark fins sold at the Guangzhou Fish Market.<br />
Shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, a delicacy once prepared exclusively for the Chinese emperors and nobility. The cartilage from the fin is carefully dried and prepared, and used as an ingredient in a soup flavored with seafood or chicken broth and herbs.<br />
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The demand for shark-fin soup has rocketed. It is still associated with privilege and social rank - a bowl of soup can cost up to US$100 - but the explosive growth in the Chinese economy means that hundreds of millions of people can now afford this luxury. Many consider it de rigueur at important events such as weddings, birthdays, business banquets and during Chinese New Year celebrations.
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  • Shark fins and tails dry in the sun.<br />
Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • Shark fins are sorted at a marine products export company.<br />
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According to WWF figures, Hong Kong has the second-highest per-capita seafood consumption in Asia, and is the world’s eighth-largest seafood consumer.<br />
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Damaged by decades of human activity, Hong Kong’s rich marine ecosystem requires concerted conservation effort to recover and flourish.
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  • Senevisa fish processing plant in Dakar processes cuttlefish brought in from artisanal fishermen. The local market consumes only three percent of the production of this plant.<br />
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Artesianal fishermen sell products like octopus, squid and cuttlefish. The prime fish and cuttlefish leave this plant in Styrofoam fresh packs at 5pm in Dakar and are at the Paris Orly airport at 6am.<br />
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Fish follows the money – If the Japanese pay the most for cuttlefish then it is shipped there overnight.  Senevisa is the largest trawler/fish exporter working out of Senegal.
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  • Blurred motion of a surgeonfish in colorful reef off of Komodo Island in Indonesia.<br />
Surgeonfishes are small-scaled, with a single dorsal fin and one or more distinctive, sharp spines that are located on either side of the tail base and can produce deep cuts. They are primarily algae eaters.
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  • Markets line the streets of the Senegal fishing village of Saint Louis on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Fish carcasses Vigo, Spain in the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world and is  home to the first fish auction.<br />
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Swordfish and sharks are hauled in by heavy machinery and by hand. Both species are down to 10 percent of their historic numbers. One of the world’s busiest seafood ports, Vigo auctions half a million tons of fish daily. As Europe’s largest fishing nation, Spain’s people consume 80 pounds of seafood per capita, 50 per cent higher than Europe’s average. Lower fish stocks have caused a 20-year decline in Spain’s catch.
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  • Workers lift a frozen coelacanth fish that is being transported to a museum. Coelacanths are the fossil fish that bridge the gap between fish and the mammals that left the sea to walk on land.  Their fins become legs.<br />
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70 million years old, scientists previously considered the fish long extinct. In 1938, however, a fishing trawler brought up a live specimen. Since then more than 100 living coelacanths, remarkably unchanged since the Cretaceous period, have been caught off the coast of South Africa.<br />
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The coelacanth is classified as vulnerable by the World Conservation Union (also known as the IUCN), an international organization that maintains a global list of vulnerable and endangered species called the Red List. A vulnerable classification means that the species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future.
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  • Vigo, Spain has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world and it is the home of the first fish auction.  Sharks are hauled in by heavy machinery and by hand. The species is down to 10 percent of historic numbers.
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  • A moose forages amid the woodlands stands in tall grass near Anchorage, Alaska. Alces alces gigas is the largest member of the deer family. Adults range in size from 800-1600 pounds and can be 6 feet tall. Antlers are carried by only males.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • The gold vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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  • As researchers take measurements to study a brown bear (Ursus arctos) they trapped and tranquilized near the Unuk River, the grizzlies eyes open. They had to work quickly  as the sedative began to wear off.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Women sing out 'Stop in the Name of Love' in the spot where Diana Ross recorded the song.
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  • A wild horse is seriously wounded from running into a barbed wire fence. The western landscape is full of old fences that once divided ranches and they are hazards for unsuspecting wildlife.
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  • Wild horses stand opposite ways to flick flies off each others faces with their tails.
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  • A common sunstar fish (Crossaster papposus) is exposed at low tide on Moser Island. Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich, emerald green, marine intertidal zones.
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  • A common sunstar fish or Crossaster papposus is exposed at low tide in the intertidal zone on Moser Island in Southeast Alaska. The sea creature normally has nine or ten arms but like this one growing sixteen, they can have many more. They have a spiny texture and pray on other sea stars, sea urchins, snails, cucumbers and sea anemones.
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  • Hands clasped, a couple shows their rings after the wedding on Mendenhall Glacier.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surfaces and dives into Stephens Passage. Studies how the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • A Bald Eagle in flight catches a fish with its talons. Their wingspans measure 7½ ft. The average weight is 10-12 pounds, some weigh up to 16 pounds. Bald Eagles can pick up and fly off with a fish or other prey items that weigh 4-5 pounds, any more weight than that is too heavy and they will stall out and crash.
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  • Water flows off the tail of a diving humpback whale  (Megaptera novaeangliae). Studies show the humpback from Southeast Alaska travels mostly to Hawaii to breed and returns to the cold Alaskan waters.
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  • A tranquilized brown bear (Ursus arctos) creates a problem for Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife researchers. They darted a 16-year-old male in Kingsburg Creek tributary of the Unuk River while studying the grizzly bear range and habitat in southeast Alaska near the Canadian border. <br />
The 600-pound males slipped down the edge of a muddy embankment and was too heavy to move. With only a short time to work before the bear is revived, the two men took their research notes and then quickly built the bear a nest of branches so he wouldn’t fall into the creek upon waking.<br />
Brown bears decline in the range and numbers in the lower 48 states heightened management concern in habitat-related studies. It is believed that brown bears avoid clearcuts and are more often found in riparian old growth, wetlands, and alpine/subalpine habitat because of more nutritious foraging and better cover.
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  • A detail showing a brown bear’s paws and claws while he is tranquilized to be radio-collared by state biologists.  <br />
Grizzly bears, as they are commonly known, are found in most of Alaska from the islands of the Southeast to the Arctic. Over 98 percent of the brown bear population resides in Alaska.<br />
The coastal brown bear is the world’s largest carnivorous land mammal. Nearly 45,000 brown bears (Ursus arctos), roam Alaska, weigh up to 1,100 pounds. Salmon is their primary food source.
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  • A buck and doe Columbian black-tailed deer.
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  • Hunters with dead axis deer, an invasive introduced species.
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  • A ginseng plant and it's roots in a woman's hand as a family hunts for ginseng in a West Virginia forest. A native plant in the Appalachian forest, ginseng is highly prized and harvested as a cash crop. It has been used for centuries in North America and Asia for a variety of illnesses and to increase vitality.
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  • A cicada is vulnerable after shedding it's larval skin.  Cicadas emerge from underground as nymphs, which is a juvenile stage in their life cycle, and molt to grow into a larger protective exoskeleton.
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  • A young adult moose forages amid the woodlands stands in tall grass near Anchorage, Alaska. Alces alces gigas is the largest member of the deer family. Adults range in size from 800-1600 pounds and can be 6 feet tall. Antlers are carried by only males.
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  • Residents of a historic, rustic log cabin hooked up to the modern amenity of receiving satellite television. Moose antlers adorn the walls of the cabin in the short summer months in the North Slope of Alaska.
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  • A red-haired, freckle-faced, young lad has sunscreen lotion applied before starting out on a rafting trip on the Colorado River.
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  • A moose forages amid the woodlands stands in tall grass near Anchorage, Alaska. Alces alces gigas is the largest member of the deer family. Adults range in size from 800-1600 pounds and can be 6 feet tall. Antlers are carried by only males.
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  • The Rohe family shucks sweet corn on their family farm.
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  • Giant hand sculpture rises from the desolate Atacama Desert. Fingers of the  giant, sculpted hand reach into the blue sky out of the relentless sands along the Pan American highway. The Mano de Desierto, constructed by Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal, has a base of iron and cement, and stands 11 meters tall. The art was created as a monument to the emptiness of the vast, barren land.
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  • A white-gloved military parade takes over a street through the downtown Santiago.<br />
Carabineros de Chile are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmery created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country.<br />
They also re-establish order and security in Chilean society through civic education, service to the community, police work, and in a war situation, to act as a paramilitary force (all their members have military training).
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  • Matador faces a bull in Peru's oldest bullring, Plaza de Archo in Rímac, a Lima suburb. Red cape flying, sword drawn, the costumed man faces a close call with the angry beast. Bullfighting remains a passion for many Peruvians who revel in its pomp and pageantry--and its inherent danger.
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  • Camel's feet spread apart to keep them from sinking into the sand.
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  • A female camel gently touches her owner.
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  • Camel's feet spread apart to keep them from sinking into the sand.
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  • A Mursi woman and child in village of Galap.
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  • A crocodile in the Omo River.
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  • A woman with a nail piercing the area under her lower lip.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in village of Galap.
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  • Kara boys stand on the mud-caked shoreline of the Omo River.
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