
A day in the life of a Gelada seems precarious – sleeping by night on cliff ledges, before ascending to plateaus to forage by day – but it’s a recipe for survival that has allowed the Gelada to persist. Geladas are typically encountered in large groups, with each individual hunched over in an alpine meadow picking away at grasses. This is the best chance to see and photograph the hourglass-shaped patch of pinkish-red skin on the upper chest that gives these remarkable creatures their colloquial name of “bleeding heart monkey.”
Join us this October in pursuit of Geladas and other treasures of the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia: Bone-breakers, Bleeding Hearts and More, October 14 - 29, 2016.