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Show ? I 1-1 1 1 I M 1 ! I 1 I 1 t 1 M 1 ImImMmImH, i ,t. j l ! H..R... till ! I I I t 1 Baboon Formidable Foe When Incited to Fury i At night the South African baboon Is a timorous creature, and as Its sight In the dusk Is far Inferior to that of the leopard, the latter sometimes steals up to where Ihe troop Is sleep-lug, sleep-lug, makes Its pounce, and escape with r shrieking victim. But the leopard does not Invariably have the best of it There are several well-authenticated well-authenticated Instances of such a night marauder being surrounded and torn-to torn-to pieces. Another enemy much dreaded dread-ed by baboons Inhabiting the warmer localities Is the rock-python. But there are insinnces of even the python being destroyed by the combined fury of a i roup. All snakes, whether poisonous or not, are equally feared by baboons. This Is somewhat strange In view of the circumstances that the latter can at once distinguish between berries that are wholesome and those that are poisonous, even though tbey may never have seen them before. The hiss of a snake will reduce the most enraged baboon to a state of abject terror, and a dead snake placed in the vicinity of one will drive it almost distracted. |