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Photo of the Day #535: Chimpanzee

By laelaps on March 28, 2009.

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The skeleton of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), photographed at the National Museum of Natural History. Notice the bone pathology around the roots of the teeth in the upper jaw.


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