“And their response was ‘can you take us to him?’ We immediately hiked back into the area with members from the 4X4 Club, S.P.C.A. and C.R.O.W. and removed the baboon from his prison. He was taken to C.R.O.W. and when he woke from his drugs we administered he must have thought he was in heaven! The first thing he saw was a huge bowl of fresh vegetables and fruit which he took great pleasure in devouring.”

The baboon was named Drake, because he had come from the Drakensberg.
And over the next few months at C.R.O.W, Drake regained his strength.

“When he got his food he would eat everything. He literally - he was starved. He was a sack of bones when we picked him up and normally they weigh roughly about 50 kilos - a big grown male - and he weighed less than 20 kilos. He was literally a sack of bones when we picked him up, so his meals at C.R.O.W — he used to like them, ja!”

Soon, plans were made to return Drake to the wild.

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