Oh how funny. I found this article on msn.com, seeing the title I became curious. I thought maybe it was a play on words. It isn’t. Seriously, the baboons in South Africa are “attacking” tourist in their vehicles and stealing the food from them.
While I understand that the baboons are wild animals, I still find this funny. If I understand the article correctly, the entire “tribe” of baboons just file into the stopped traffic and open car doors or go through open windows in search of sandwiches, etc. The photo they have with article just looks adorable to me, but I am sure they are dangerous wild animals.
This article reminds me of a time when I was a kid, and my family went camping down at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas. We left our cooler and a loaf of bread sitting on the picnic table while we went to sleep that night.
Our parents woke us up in the middle of the night so we could watch the little bandits steal our food. The raccoons in the area had learned how to open our cooler and they also tore into the loaf of bread. My dad had a video camera and got it turned on so that we now have footage forever of these little stinkers.
The funniest part of all was when they would take a piece of bread down to the creek to “wash” it before they ate it. The running water would deteriorate the bread quickly, and they would come back to the table to get another piece. That was a fun time.
In the article they state that they know that this will attract tourists, and they fear for the safety of the people. They will start handing out papers telling you to roll up your windows, lock your doors, etc, if you see the baboons. These papers will be issued in more than one language so that everyone will be safe.
Interesting. I cannot wait to see what happens next year, when the tourists start rolling in just to see the baboons.
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