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Title: A Real-life Watchers. Post by: Count Ratfink on February 23, 2010, 11:28:39 PM Well, kind of. I've been reading an excellent book by the late hunter Peter Capstick called Death In A Lonely Land:More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents. Anyhow, near the beginning of the book he gives an account of how in 1975, he and his hunting safari staff fought a little war against a massive troop of yellow baboons at a place in Zimbabwe called Vlackfontein. To make a long story short, I knew baboons were dangerous, but not THAT dangerous-even brutal. Pushing people off cliffs, stoning people, biting people, killing goats and other livestock, hurting kids...Capstick talks all about this shocking side of these beasts.
Ultimately, after this troop of baboons killed a baby, Capstick and his staff culled many of the large males with weapons ranging from a machine pistol to spears in a nightime battle, driving the females, young, and surviving males away forever. Sounds awfully scary. Title: Re: A Real-life Watchers. Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on February 25, 2010, 01:15:53 PM I have read how baboons are not very nice at all. But thats really extreme stuff
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