Humans are unique in developing permanent breasts that send sexual signals, says Stuart Blackman. However, there is another primate with an ostentatious chest. Ethiopian geladas have bald chest patches that are bright red. As the sole grass-eating primates, geladas spend much of their time shuffling around. Squatting hides their backsides, so there’s no point having […]
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The Geladas of Ethiopia by Adam Riley
Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. These relics of times gone by now cling to a precarious existence on the sheer cliffs of Ethiopia‘s mountains, from which each morning they materialize, to forage on nearby moorlands, before […]