Palm nuts are favourite food for many primates such as these Yellow Baboon. The fruit is a tasty fibre covering of the nut that seems little reward

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Palm nuts are favourite food for many primates such as these Yellow Baboon. The fruit is a tasty fibre covering of the nut that seems little reward for their efforts to collect and discard the remnants

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Location: Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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