My local Business Park Fellas

Tim-Gabz

Tim-Gabz

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These dudes are residents adjacent to my office park that has encroached on their land, considerably more this last week for a new development. They come down in quiet times to forage in the skips and local trees for food (also any parked pickup or car that is open with groceries in). For vitamins I often leave out surplus lemons from our home tree behind the building where they can’t associate human feeding. I went into their area and let loose a pocket of lemons, from a distance, for a photo session this morning from my car. They already associate cars with food having raided open and parked vehicles in the past in their turf. They are great, but very dangerous fellas.

Dog Baboon at Breakfast,



Lurker Baboon, Not part of immediate family,

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Family of Baboons
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Mum and junior

 
Those are great pics. Thanks for sharing them.
 
throw em a cigarette and see if they smoke :p
 
If they get over the fear of fire nicotine addicted Baboons would be a real interesting scenario. Regretfully they do ape human behavior, seen one with a trilby loping off with the former owner chasing. They are quick to try things and when bored dump it. Bad enough seeing a Baboon foraging through the groceries in the back of your pickup and heading off with a pocket of oranges (you don't shoo off Baboons when there is food). I was wondering that since these guys hop over steel pallisade and razor wire faster than a Ninja, and will take peanuts as pay could they be trained as special opps?

Na all the defence an installation would need would be a couple of banana trees and orange trees and they would fail.
 
These dudes are hard assed tough guys. Very social critters but are the fav fast food of leopards. Has to be fast because a leopard can take out a juniour, battle taking out adults and get creamed by a dog (alpha male) baboon. They are known to leave a junior in a seemily vunerable location and wait for the local, troublesome leopard to go for the bait then ambush the leopard.

Some daft dogs have the instinct of the chase when they come across baboons for the first time. The one he goes for runs through the troop and the troop closes in on the dog. A colleague lost his bull terrior to one dog baboon who swatted it down as it jumped and disembowed it.

I am waiting for the ineviable idiot to get stomped and a few of them will be eliminated.
 
They are very quick thieves. Thinking is needed to stop that. Where I used to hunt kudu in Zimbabwe their sentry system and good eyesite kept them out of range and often raiding your homestead when you were out looking for them. They know your cars and people, and it is difficult to catch out a wisened baboon. They are good at snake alerts and keeping other pests away.

They stopped raiding the cooling bread loaves when one loaf carried a retro fitted rubber snake. Their reaction to snakes is to faint, not a good thing to do off a low branch.

They are inquisitive to the point of stupidity and paper bags with a live non venemous grass snake in always good for a laugh. One faints and the rest bunk like school kids when a teacher walks in on a smoking session.
 
I wonder what sort of strange evolutionary twist resulted in fainting at the sight of snakes? Maybe it worked out that if they appeared dead the snake wouldn't touch them, who knows.
 
That would work. Snakes can't eat anything too big to swallow whole, and if it's not a threat why should they bite it?
 
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