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Yuri Khudi's Home Chum, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia
Researchers Drink a Toast to Lyuba in Chum Interior
Photo credit © Francis Latreille
In this interior shot of Yuri Khudi's chum, the researchers toast Lyuba's discovery. From left are Yuri Khudi, the reindeer herder whose children discovered the baby mammoth in May 2007; his wife Lyuba Khudi; Yuri's friend Kirill Seretetto; paleontologist Dan Fisher from the University of Michigan; and Bernard Buigues, vice-president of the Geneva-based International Mammoth Committee.
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