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"Baboons are powerful animals. When people take their dogs walking at
Avis Dam near Windhoek the braver/stupider dogs will try and chase the
baboons. The local vet has a good business sewing up dogs with large
gashes and cuts that have inflicted on the dogs by the baboons. The
baboons round Avis Dam even come visiting the town. People living in
houses adjoining the dam can enter their sitting room to find a baboon
at the fruit bowl helping himself! A little time back a baboon got as
far as the centre of Windhoek. The story I was told was that he first
went to the Ministry of Home Affairs building, from there he moved on to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before ending up at the Parliament
building. Here it was established he could not vote, so alas he was
shot."
"Baboons
make curious foot prints. Most animals have similar front and back
footprints since the front and back ‘paws’ are both feet. Baboons have
hands rather than feet at the front, and when walking only part of the
hand touched the ground to leave a print. All of the back feet touch the
ground so baboons leave behind two different sorts of footprint." |
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