A photo story here about some wild Baboons.

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This little guy is the hero of the story.
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We traveled over the mountain, and we stopped at a lookout spot at the top of the mountain.

So now the long weekend is over, and I don't know about you, but I think that time flies lately. Just yesterday was Friday and now it is Tuesday.
In any case this is a baboon story that I have captured on my camera. I have much to tell you about them.
So come and have a look.

As usual, the big boss sat in the top of a tree watching us as we arrived and I left my wife in the locked car, as Baboons can open car doors.
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Our little hero dashed off, as he saw his little mate had fallen off the low wall.
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He arrived to help his mate back up.
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Yay! The smaller one was back up.
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Have a look at their hands, and he looked to see as I applauded him :)
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And then there was peace in their little world.
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Now for another part of the story.

I think the caller at the top of the mountain saw a whale and he signaled for the tribe to come and see.
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This one at the bottom called the youngsters to go and see.
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The one at the left sat watching the ocean and the one at the right was watching if the youngsters were coming.
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As you can see from the lookout spot, the ocean flows around behind the right hand side of the mountain. Behind that rock that the caller was sitting on.
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The youngsters rushed off towards the caller's position.
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With the adults following behind them. And then all of the baboons were gone from our lookout spot.
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Now, don't run away as there was something else.

This guy sat in his car waiting until all of the baboons were gone. It is not safe with the baboons around. I think that he wanted his Macaw parrot to have a look at the view.
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And yes, it is indeed a lovely view of our town from the lookout spot high up on the mountain.
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We don't come here often enough, but I can tell you that it is a wonderful place. On a clear day one can see for miles around, but of course, one has to watch out for the winds, as when the South-easter screams at high velocity over this mountain, nothing is safe. The wonder is that the baboons know about this wind, and they hide in the big boulders. I suppose that if we had to live up here, then we would do the same.

So no, baboons are not stupid, and they even have advanced communication systems in nature. No What's Apps or any other devices, but when that old baboon lets out a scream, it will chill your spine. They have long teeth that can kill another animal, or a human in an instant and yet they even have some human qualities, as you saw that little one helping the smaller one.

Baboons can also stone humans. Have a look at this.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11853039/Three-hikers-legs-broken-BABOONS-push-130lb-boulder-cliff.html

Nature has always been there, and mankind has learned a lot from the wisdom and surprises in nature.
I am very careful of the big boss, and I think that he knows that I respect him.
It is up to all of us to keep nature in a pristine condition, as no nature, will result in no life.

I hope that you have enjoyed the pictures and the story.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX70 Bridge camera.

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I have heard stories of man eating baboons, but they look so cute - I mean the little guys because the look of the boss looks quite scary 😏

I love the images and the story about the little guys helping each other is lovely too 😊

Oh wow, what a view - here you have to climb high up on a mountain to have such a view and with a little bit of imagnation you can even see the sea from here 😀

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Yeah, the big males can be very dangerous when encountered and that's why I am also wary of that big guy 😊

I hoped that the care of the little guy would send a message out, that if the animals can do it, then what's wrong with many of us 😟

I am happy that you enjoyed the view my friend and I know your imagination powers. You can so easily imagine that you see the sea with a big boat on it filled with young ladies that are calling you 🤣🤣🤣 !LOLZ

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Yep, you never know if a wrong move might disappoint the guy.

Animals are mostly more humanly than the humans.

Haha, when you're high enough and the weather is right you really can see a few hundred kilometres and sometimes it looks like the sea, honestly 😎 and maybe you could also see a big ship, but you could never hear the ladies calling at such a huge distance 🤣 !LOLZ

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No moves when he is around my friend as I stand like a statue when he is close 😉

Yes, I have seen that many times. A person can faint in the street and all of the people will just continue to walk past, with no one caring enough to help the person. So sad.

A mirage is what they call it and people also see this in the desert. No need for the ladies to call as if a few of them are naked, then I can imagine a mountain goat racing off in his beloved van to get to the nonexistent boat 🤣 !LOLZ

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Oh yes, I think I would do the same - maybe I wouldn't even get out of the car 🤣 !LOLZ

It always depends on the situation, I think, but it's sad that most people don't care anymore, that's right.

Haha, you might be right, my friend 😎

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Only the weekends seem to fly - the work weeks are slow as always 😅 !LOLZ

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So right, as I had those experiences during my working days, the only bonus that I have never had, was to sleep at work, as that would have made the time to go faster 😁 !LOLZ

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I think I have often told you that paid sleep at work is the best sleep ... and when you wake up a few hours have gone by 😅 !LOLZ

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Yes, we have discussed it a few times and if you add all of the hours of paid sleep in a year, and add it to your normal sleep, you might be amazed when you find that you have slept for a quarter of the year. So, 4 quarters of 4 years means that you have cut a year in sleep from your retirement date 😮😴😃 !LOLZ

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Maybe I can tell my boss that I'll work for the next 3 years without sleeping and then sleep the last year till I retire 🤣 !LOLZ

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A good idea, but if I was your boss, I would tell you that during the 3 years that you work, you have to work with no salary, to pay him for all of the other years that you slept in. So you would walk out on retirement without a state pension 😢 !LOLZ

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Okay, the idea wasn't that good. So I will carry on with what I am doing and appreciate my paid sleep 🤣 !LOLZ

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I am so grateful that your sanity was restored just by me talking about the things that you keep in your wallet. Had you taken that route, you will end up with a very skinny wallet 🤣 !LOLZ

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You should see my wallet, it's as skinny as XXXXXS size 🤣 !LOLZ

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For a few years now we were talking about hive mooning. If it doesn't happen in the next 10 years, then you will also like the old guys here, have to stand at a traffic light with a tin in your hand and a board hanging on your chest with a begging story on the board 😜 !LOLZ

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Haha, that might actually be the case but I hope not 😂 !LOLZ

I don't know if the Hive will ever moon but I think I'll keep believing and hoping for it for a little while longer.

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Nah, knowing you, I know that will never happen to you, as you are well prepared, I think 😊 !LOLZ

Same here, as I am planning on scaling down. The power cuts have increased so much that it makes things very difficult for us.

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You never know what the future has planned for you, but thanks, I hope it will never happen because I am not as prepared as you might think 😊 in my younger years I have invested too much money in alcohol and cigarettes 😂 !LOLZ

I have already got the money back that I have invested and it helped buying my van, so the Hive in my wallet are my profit 😁

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Reminds me of a song "Sunday morning coming down" by Kris Kristofferson. You are so right, as we do indeed never know what the future holds in store for us. I am slowly discovering this every year now as I get older and there's nothing nice and rosy about it 😢 !LOLZ
Endurance is the simple secret.

Great going and I hope that Hive will make your wallet very fat 😊

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When you get older you become wiser and calmer and more frugal, you take life easier ... that's what I think and hope for me, but all I feel are my bones every morning 🤣 !LOLZ

Our wallets should become fat enough to have no financial worries anymore 😁

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Not in my case, as my head becomes fuzzier every day and the forced frugality due to our crashing economy makes me to hang onto a shoestring. Your bones should all be in fine form, as they get much sleep 🤣 !LOLZ

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You're not alone, my friend, my head has been fuzzy since my mother got her second child ... since she got me 🤣 !LOLZ

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Now, you cannot blame your mother my friend, as she wanted to run away when she gave birth and she saw you. So maybe by accident, she dropped you and you fell on your head 🤣 !LOLZ

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And I always wondered why I am like I am, but now it's all clear - she must have dropped me and it was just an accident, of course, wasn't it? 🤣 !LOLZ

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Well, I think that she had to pay for the repairs to the dent that your head made to the floor 😜 !LOLZ

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My father is a carpenter, so I think that he has repaired the floor for free, but my mother might have had to pay by cooking his favourite meal 😋 !LOLZ

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Oh yeah, you helped your father to build the hut on the mountain if I remember correctly. He has still not recovered from having to fix that floor and that's why you have to visit him more often, as it makes him feel good that he didn't waste his time to repair the floor 😜 !LOLZ

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Nope, I have been too young when he built the cabin, but you are right that I should visit him more often, because the hole in the floor was quite big and hard to repair 😅 !LOLZ

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Ah! Okay, I knew that he built the cabin, and I am only surprised that the hospital didn't sue your family for the trauma that he poor doctor and the nurses had to endure. I think after that episode the doctor resigned and he became a farmer 🤣 !LOLZ

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I have heard the doctor has become a veterinarian, because giving birth to calves and foals was easier he thought 🤣 !LOLZ

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Ah! Even better, as he made sure he would never drop a baby again. I don't think that he could drop calves and fouls at birth, as they are normally born on the ground. Poor, poor man 😁 !LOLZ

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This is a clever doctor - no damaged baby and no hole in the floor anymore 🤣 !LOLZ

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Hahaha, so he made sure that there is only one Austrian mountain goat 😁 !LOLZ

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Yep, I'm the only one, and that's good so because two of us would be much too much 🤣 !LOLZ

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Well, two would have left two dents in the hospital floor and the hospital was glad that there was only one 😉 !LOLZ

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Two of us falling down on the floor might have destroyed the whole hospital 🤣 !LOLZ

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Oh yes, that's why I said that the hospital was glad that there was only one 😁 !LOLZ

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The whole world should be glad that there's only one - two of that kind would throw the world off balance 🤣 !LOLZ

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Oh yes, people waited with bated breath outside the hospital and when they heard that there was only one, they all partied through the night and into the early morning hours 😜 !LOLZ

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I think there must even be an article about this on Wikipedia 🤣🤣🤣 !LOLZ

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Maybe you must search for the article and then place it in a frame on your wall 😁 !LOLZ

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Haha, what if I really find it ... written by Zac Smith? 🤣 !LOLZ

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Hahaha, that will guaranteed be the find of the century. But one can never know, as maybe an incident like that happened somewhere in the past centuries and a high priest named Zac Smith wrote about it on a parchment 😜 !LOLZ

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Are you sure it was a high priest and not a witch doctor 😁 !LOLZ

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The possibilities are endless Hannes 😁 !LOLZ

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That is an amazing view. No wonder the baboons like it there.😀

mankind has learned a lot from the wisdom and surprises in nature.

I just wish we would apply what we learned more than we do.

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On a clear day when the light is right, I can get some stunning close-ups of the farms and the town.
We are of the same thought, as mankind is a selective species, and they will only apply the lessons that suit their motives.

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You wrote something that something is not safe with Baboons around. Well, I went to the zoo something ago and I saw a Baboon which means that it is a wild animal. But the Baboon was playing with me on that day. Do Baboons hurt people?

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Wild animals are called wild because they live free out in the wild. A caged animal is no longer wild and so I don't like or visit zoo's.
@barski , a friend said there is a saying that if you put your finger in a baboon's mouth, you will leave it there.
Baboons have indeed killed some people.

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One popular wisdom says that you can’t put your finger in the mouth of a buboon, it will stay there :)
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I liked this saying so much that I shared it with another reply in here, as it is true. One will definitely end up with one missing finger :)
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I came up with this when I saw a documentary video of how an embittered buboin attacked tourists and bit off one of their fingers, it was scary, the beast is strong, although not tall, and the jaws are scarier than those of a dog, so this "folk wisdom" was born :)

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Well, you can be proud of coining the phrase. Our baboons are much bigger, and their teeth is much longer than any dog's 😊 !LOLZ

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I don't think it's a matter of pride, pride is a sin, it's just... I figured it out, I often come up with something, it's funny and interesting to me :)
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Well done again and you just keep on with your somethings.
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By the way, interestingly, you just came up with a new illusory term "your something" ... if they tell you to feed something to a booboon, say that you have your own "something" and you will not give it to the buboon , or someone else, he should have "his something", but the path does not even look at "my something" :)
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Hahaha, what a clever reply about something and I had a laugh at this.
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Yes, intelligence and stupidity go hand in hand with each other, apparently, because we can laugh at both smart phrases and stupid ones, laughter equalizes everything :)
A smart one dreams of seeing the ass of a booboon he meets, and a fool looks into the eyes of a boboon and puts his finger in his mouth, somehow it's strange, logic suggests something else :)
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You are right and then the cousin of intelligence and stupidity steps in. His name is Simple.
I bet that you would have a wise way of fitting Simple into the story. Oh, and don't forget Logic.

Here's one for the smart asses.

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Well this is a rare case but it happens, lol, when like he saw a buboin's butt and lost his finger ... wrong that's what you said ... Simple :)
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Yep, a combination of smartness and stupidity and I think that we are all like that !LOLZ

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Pretty neat post, being able to experience the baboons in the wild has to be breathtaking. Great pics, many of them displaying how they care for each other.

Locking Marian in the car was a good idea, but I would expect that if you encountered any problems she would have been at your side giving the baboons a piece of her mind. They would be running away with their tail between their legs.
There's nothing like a woman's scorn.

The boss man, sitting in the tree is an intimidating picture.

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Thank you Rob, and apologies about not continuing to answer the replies, but this is the first gap that I got to be back on again.

I asked Marian to read this and she had a good laugh. She said that you should earn a medal for knowing women so well. So I told her that it is your lady that should get the medal for training you so well !LOL
Nothing like a woman's scorn indeed, as they lose it when their man is threatened.

Yep! I am wary of that big old guy, because one can never know what mood he is in.

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No apologies are needed. Many times it will take me a day or two to get back to comments that I receive, for one reason or another.

Laughing, the medicine that's free.
Come to think of it, she did do a pretty good job making me who I am today, without a doubt.

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Always a hassle here, especially now with the increased power cuts.

Free medicine indeed, and you are so right as it only happens when there is mutual respect and love.

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