Show baboon if formidable formidable ormi dable foe when I 1 incited nc cited to fury I 1 at tile the south african baboon Is a timorous rous creature and nd as its night in tile the dust dusk Is far inferior to that ot of the leopard the latter steals up to where the lie troop Is sleeping cuales its pounce and escapes with a shrieking vict lin iut but the file leopard does docs not invariably have the tha best of it there are several well authenticated instances of such a night marauder being surrounded and torn tn cleves another enemy dread ed by bof babions baboons the localities Is the hythin but there tire of even the python belna being destroyed by bv theca the combined fury of a atrol tr ol all snake shakea whether poisonous or not ore are equally feared by baboons babions ba boons this Is somewhat strange in view of tile lie circumstances that the uter litter I 1 can at if once distinguish between berries that are wholesome and those that are poisonous even though they moty never have seen them before the hiss ot of a snake will reduce the most enraged ogeil baboon to a state of abject terror and a dead snake placed in the vicinity or of one will drive tt it almost distracted |