Corazón sangrante
Melena de león
Fauces de leopardo
Los papiones gelada, especie endémica de las Montañas Simien, nos rodean con su carga de pulgas y sueños vagos. Al borde del abismo ocre, la manada de machos leonados, hembras escandalosas y crías asustadizas se demora antes de abalanzarse por el precipicio saltando de rama en rama. Se despiojan, atrapan pulgas, arrancan hierbas a puñados, gritan como endemoniados, copulan compulsivamente, se pelean, muestran los colmillos, me miran de soslayo con sus ojos color miel, como si no estuviera allí o apenas fuera una sombra. Yo soy la sombra ajena.
El triángulo invertido de su pecho imberbe asemeja un corazón atravesado en procesión. Los machos ondean al viento su melena dorada magnífica que les otorga talla de león de la sabana. Los gelada reinan en las alturas etíopes donde vuelan los cuervos, los milanos y los quebrantahuesos.
Fauces de leopardo
Melena de león
Corazón sangrante
(Theropitecus gelada)
(Montañas Simien, abril de 2011)
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BLEEDING HEART (SIMIEN MOUNTAINS, ETHIOPIA)
Bleeding heart
Lion's mane
Leopard's maw
Gelada baboons, an endemic species to the Simien Mountains, surround us laden with fleas and vague dreams. At the ocher abyss's edge, the herd of leonine males, noisy females and skittish youngs hangs around before rushing down the cliff jumping from branch to branch. Delousing, catching fleas, pulling weeds in handfuls, screaming like possessed, compulsively mating, fighting, showing their fangs, looking at me sideways with their hazel eyes, as I was not there or was just a shadow. I am the strange shadow.
The inverted triangle on their hairless chest resembles a pierced heart in procession. Males flutter in the wind their superb golden mane that gives them savannah lion's size. Gelada baboons reign on Ethiopian heights where ravens, kites and lammergeiers fly.
Leopard's maw
Lion's mane
Bleeding heart
Lion's mane
Leopard's maw
Gelada baboons, an endemic species to the Simien Mountains, surround us laden with fleas and vague dreams. At the ocher abyss's edge, the herd of leonine males, noisy females and skittish youngs hangs around before rushing down the cliff jumping from branch to branch. Delousing, catching fleas, pulling weeds in handfuls, screaming like possessed, compulsively mating, fighting, showing their fangs, looking at me sideways with their hazel eyes, as I was not there or was just a shadow. I am the strange shadow.
The inverted triangle on their hairless chest resembles a pierced heart in procession. Males flutter in the wind their superb golden mane that gives them savannah lion's size. Gelada baboons reign on Ethiopian heights where ravens, kites and lammergeiers fly.
Leopard's maw
Lion's mane
Bleeding heart
(Simien Mountains, April 2011)
(c) Copyright del texto y de las fotos: Joaquín Moncó
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