Baboons

And even now, when the elephant gets the chance, he pitches them up into the highest forks of the trees.

there was once a great drought in the land and lyon called together a number of animals so that they might devise a plan for retaining water when the rains fell the animals which attended at lyon's summons were baboon leopard hyena jackal hare and mountain tortoise it was agreed that they should scratch a large hole in some suitable place to hold water and the next day they all began to work with the exception of jackal who continually hovered about in that locality and was overheard to mutter that he was not going to scratch his nails off in making water holes when the dam was finished the rains fell and it was soon filled with water to the great delight of those who had worked so hard on it the first one however to come and drink there was jackal who not only drank but filled his clay pot with water and then proceeded to swim in the rest of the water making it as muddy and dirty as he could This was brought to the knowledge of Lion, who was very angry and ordered Baboon to guard the water the next day, armed with a huge knob-cury.

Baboon was concealed in a bush close to the water, but Jackal soon became aware of his presence there and guessed its cause.

knowing the fondness of baboons for honey jackal at once hit upon a plan and marching to and fro every now and then dipped his fingers into his clay pot and licked them with an expression of intense relish saying in a low voice to himself i don't want any of their dirty water when i have a pot full of delicious honey this was too much for poor baboon whose mouth began to water he soon began to beg jackal to give him a little honey as he had been watching for several hours and was very hungry and tired after taking no notice of baboon at first jackal looked round and said in a patronizing manner that he pitied such an unfortunate creature and would give him some honey on certain conditions to wit that baboon should give up his knob curie and allow himself to be bound by jackal he foolishly agreed and was soon tied in such a manner that he could not move hand or foot jackal now proceeded to drink of the water to fill his pot and to swim in the sight of baboon from time to time telling him what a foolish fellow he had been to be so easily duped and that he jackal had no honey or anything else to give him excepting a good blow on the head every now and then with his own knob the animal soon appeared and found poor baboon in this sorry plight looking the picture of misery lion was so exasperated that he caused baboon to be severely punished and to be denounced as a fool tortoise hereupon stepped forward and offered his services for the capture of jackal it was at first thought that he was merely joking but when he explained in what manner he proposed to catch him his plan was considered so feasible that his offer was accepted he proposed that a thick coating of beinwerk a type of sticky black substance found on beehives should be spread all over him and that he should then go and stand at the entrance of the dam on the water level so that jackal might tread upon him and stick fast this was accordingly done and tortoise posted there the next day when jackal came he approached the water very cautiously and wondered to find no one there he then ventured to the entrance of the water and remarked how kind they had been in placing there a large black stepping-stone for him as soon however as he trod upon the supposed stone he stuck fast and saw that he had been tricked for tortoise now put his head out and began to move jackal's hind feet being still free he threatened to smash tortoise with them if he did not let him go tortoise merely answered do as you like jackal thereupon made a violent jump and found with horror that his hind feet were now also fast tortoise said he i have still my mouth and teeth left and will eat you alive if you do not let me go Do as you like, Tortoise again replied.

Jackal, in his endeavors to free himself, at last made a desperate bite at Tortoise, and found himself fixed, both head and feet.

THUS HE SPAKE, AND BABOON ASSEMBLED THEM FOR TRIAL.

THEN THEY MADE THE SAME EXCUSES WHICH HAD BEEN MENTIONED BY ITCLUR, EACH ONE PUTTING THE BLAME UPON THE OTHER.

So Baboon did not see any other way of punishing them, save through making them punish each other.

Um, the guy who, who was his, his minder, his human, um, was disabled and could not operate the, the switching of the railways at the, at the station.

He was a railway switcher, and he taught Jack the baboon to do this for him, and Jack ended up being way better at this than any human He was very good at doing the repetitive tasks, switching the trains, making sure they went in the right direction, putting up the signals, you know, the different colored lights at the different times so people knew what was going on on the trains.

No accidents under Jack the Baboon, and it's a fascinating story.

If you, if you don't know the story of Jack the Baboon, he's probably one of the m- he's, he's like, you know, Jock of the Bushveld.

Lots of people know about Jock of the Bushveld, but they don't know about Jack of the Railways, and I encourage you to look up that story.

It's fucking funny-

... what is the main legitimate complaint about people who want to keep the baboons in this enclosure? What are they saying the problem is?

I mean, it's...

that you're

Baboon.

No respect.

No privacy.