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POPSHeartening tale of a rescued baboon
“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. (Rest of the story on the clip)
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POPSFind Sounds Now here is a GREAT time waster.If you can't amuse yourself here,you don't belong in grade school :)
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POPSUgly Overload!! Sick of the adorable kittehs at Cute Overload? Take a walk on the dark side over at Ugly Overload.
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POPSImages of Africa Never take photos of Masai warriors. They believe the camera steals their souls. So I'm told.
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POPSBaboon Metaphysics Under the right conditions, instinctive behavior would appear automatically, even if the animal had never before had the appropriate experience. When they act by instinct, then, animals are not behaving according to Lockean reason, carefully weighing the information acquired from experience. Instead, they are governed by “hereditary tendencies” acquired over generations.
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POPSPrimate Panic Game - HarmonicFlow.com When their plane crashes on an uncharted island, two travelers discover an uncanny civilization inhabited by monkeys and apes. After a peaceful day of gathering fruit with friendly monkeys, they learn of a tyrannical baboon who wants to conquer the island and make it his empire. With their newfound monkey friends, the two travelers set out on a quest to bring peace to the island.
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POPSAnimals aren't as complex as we imagine. We spend a lot of time presuming that animals are smart and somehow like us. This is not my experience. The more we learn about them, the more realize exactly how primitive their cognition is. At some point we have to draw the line between science and fantasy. It's lonely being humans.
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POPSBaboon Spiders of Africa Bombing down the freeway a few years ago, a movement caught my eye, it was a baboon spider emerging from underneath my dashboard. Imagine my surprise! I couldn't stop and had to keep driving, praying all the while that it did not venture up the steering column. Fortunately it sat on the speedometer and started at me with malevolent eyes. I screamed into the nearest turnoff which happened to be a service station, leaped out and danced around as if I were on fire. Fortunately for me a man of some guts and substance took control of the situation and gently coaxed it out. Generally I'm not averse to spiders, but that 'up close and personal' was more than I could bear. It looked like the spider in the last picture. Very beautiful - at a civilized distance.
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POPSSome Zoo Creatures Curious about who lives at the Zoo? Find the facts about your favorite Zoo animal. A little something for kids of all ages
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