day one-hundred - gelada

geladas are known for flipping their mouth lips up to display their gums to the world and more specifically their rivals (and lovers alike):

© jem barratt

it is mildly terrifying to say the least.

i have been told that i can do the gelada lip thing well - and if that's not proof of our behavioural and genetic link to primates i don't know what is.

oh yeah... science.
xj