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Gelada Baboon

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The Gelada is not in fact peculiar to the Semyen as is the exclusive Walia Ibex, but they are more numerous here than in their other habitats Some live at Debre Sina not far from Addis Ababa and others at Debre Libanos

on the way to the Blue Nile; there are also small populations in the Mulu and Bole Valley gorges. But in the Semyen there may be as many as 20,000, and troops of 400 together may be seen.

They do not molest humans and, more surprisingly, the local people do not molest them. Thus they are very tame and will allow humans to approach quite close to the troop before moving nearer to the cliff edge. The Gelada was discovered in 1835 by the explorer Ruppell, who nan;ed it by the local name used by the inhabitants of Gonder region where he first observed it.

They are not difficult to study as they are very tame, however, little interest was shown in them until recently, when Patsy and Robin Dunbar made an exhaustive study of their social behaviour. The social behaviour of the apes and monkeys is evidence of a very high degree of intelligence and studies of their rudimentary social structures are proving of considerable value in analysing the origins of human social behaviour.

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The Gelada baboon

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Traditional Ethiopian Food

The Ethiopian national dish is called wat. It is a hot spicy stew accompanied by injera (traditional large spongy See details

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Rock Hewn church paintings

The rock hewn churches of Tigrai which were long known only to the locals were first exposed to the world by See details

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Bull Jumping competition

Surma stick fighting is a sport developed by the Surma or Suri people of southern Ethiopia. At the end of the harvest season, See details

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Traditional coffee Ceremony

The Coffee ceremony is one of the most recognizable parts of Eritrean and Ethiopian culture. Coffee is offered when visiting See details

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Axum Obilix stachu

The kingdom of Aksum, the first verifiable kingdom of great power to rise in Ethiopia, immerge during the first century AD. See details

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Lalibela

Lalibela sometimes called as the eighth wonder of the world, where eleven churches were hewn out of solid bedrock See details

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Aincient bible

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Timkat (Ethiopian Epiphany Fes

During the first millennium B.C. and possibly even earlier, various Semitic-speaking groups from Southwest Arabia began to See details

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