Mark Brownlow / Young man with body scars from manhood initiation ceremony, said to represent the man being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a crocodile-man, Papua New Guinea, August 2007
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Mark Brownlow / Young men after the initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into the flesh to represent the men being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as crocodile-men, Papua New Guinea, August 2007
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Mark Brownlow / Young man at initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into his flesh to represent being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as a crocodile-man, Papua New Guinea, September 2007
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Mark Brownlow / Young men searing their body scars with heat after the initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into their flesh to represent the men being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as crocodile-men, Papu...
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Mark Brownlow / Washing the wounds of young man who has recently been through the initiation ceremony in which his flesh is wounded to create scars that represent being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a croco...
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Mark Brownlow / Young man carried along after initiation ceremony in which his body is scared to represent being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a crocodile-man, Papua New Guinea, September 2007
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Mark Brownlow / Scars on the back of a young man who has been through initiation ceremony when his flesh is wounded to create scars that represent being swallowed by a crocodile and re-born as a crocodile-man, Papua...
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Mark Brownlow / Young men searing their body scars with heat after the initiation ceremony in which scars are cut into their flesh to represent the men being swallowed by a crocodile and reborn as crocodile-men, Papu...
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David Shale / Scaly dragonfish {Stomias boa} having swallowed a Lanternfish {Myctophidae} almost as large as itself, from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
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Piotr Naskrecki / Mottled Shovel-nosed Frog (Hemisus marmoratus) inflating itself to make itself more difficult to be swallowed by predators, Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Kim Taylor / Egg eating snake swallowing egg, Sequence 4/8 {Dasypeltis scabra} Africa
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Kim Taylor / Egg eating snake crushing egg it has swallowed. Sequence 6/8 {Dasypeltis scabra} Africa