Baby baboon

A man in Ngaoundal, Cameroon wanted to sell me this baby baboon for 10,000 CFA (about 20 dollars). I felt bad for the animal, but I didn't have the resources to take care of it. My friend is seen trying to pry it off the guy's leg, and you can hear me telling him to leave it alone. As the man and the baboon walk off in the distance, you can see him give it a few slaps. A sad sight, especially when you consider that its mother was surely killed for the bush meat trade.

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• baboon
• Cameroon
• Fulbright
• Duncan
• Ngaoundal
• baby
• sad

[Ihatemonkeys666]

I would have bought it just to stomp on it. Anyone who has worked with these damm things, if their honest hates them as much as I do.

[junkintrunk55]

The reason the baby fights so hard to stay with him is that in the wild, other males will pull it off mama to kill it. Infant baboons stand a less then 40% chance of survival. A new leader kills all the infants that aren't his. If food or water is scarce, they run off and leave the babies to die or become prey. It's instinct is to latch on to where it feels secure. This infant was likely abandoned and it got lucky. Most native people consider vermin and kill them in pretty horrible ways.

[ChickenHawk110]

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This is really really interesting. I know Cameroon has no shortage of primate pets and primate bushmeat going around, but are baboons (its a chacma infant isnt it?) even that tolerated as pets? I thought the locals hated baboons with a vengance ? Did you see many baboons getting looked after by the kids etc?