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Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by solablings(f): 6:50am On Feb 05, 2020 |
A very rare occurrence was sighted at South Africa’s Kruger National Park on Saturday, when a Safari operator Kurt Schultz in South Africa came across a male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub as though it was its own baby. “The baboon was grooming the lion cub as if it was a baby baboon. Male baboons do a lot of grooming but the care given to this lion cub was the same care given by a female baboon to one of her own young.” Schultz told the AP. Schultz said he had never seen anything like it during his two-decade career, and he quickly took photographs of the rare display. A video of the sight was also posted to Instagram and has since received more than 126,000 views. The baboon was part of a larger troop that was in an area with granite hills and boulders where lions and leopards typically hide their cubs when they go hunting, he told the outlet, and this is how the cub was likely found. When he initially spotted the baboons, they seemed “excited” and were likely fighting over the cub. He believes the cub may have been injured during the commotion. More in Home “[Baboons] are really strong animals and when they were all excited and fighting over the baby in the beginning, it could have been injured internally,” Schultz said, adding that the cub showed signs of dehydration that morning. “[The baboon] moved from branch to branch, grooming and carrying the cub for a long period of time,” he recalled. “The cub seemed very exhausted.” Taking into consideration its weakened state and the nature of baboons, Schultz believes the cub will not survive for long. “I don’t see a chance of this poor cub surviving. The troop of baboons was large and a lion would not be able to get the young back,” he told the AP. “Nature is cruel at most times and the survival of a young predator cub is not easy. The lion cub would pose a threat to the baboons when it gets older.” “I have witnessed baboons viciously killing leopard cubs and have heard of baboons killing lion cubs,” Schultz added. SOURCE: https://nnf.com.ng/p/rare-sight-as-male-baboon-is-seen-grooming-lion-cub-like-its-own-baby/2102
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Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by hapheeyxz: 6:51am On Feb 05, 2020 |
Hmm |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by Nbote(m): 6:54am On Feb 05, 2020 |
Wen it grows into a full blown lion e go still chop d baboon |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by JasonScoolari: 6:57am On Feb 05, 2020 |
The lions need to wake up and start their own AMOTEKUN against any Intruders, else, more Cubs and crops will be destroyed by the ravaging Fulanized baboons. 3 Likes |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by Snipper007: 6:59am On Feb 05, 2020 |
Lol a clear case of kidnapping........ |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by libertyfather(m): 7:05am On Feb 05, 2020 |
Simba and Rafiki, I suspected that baboon has been peeping through the guards window watching lion king. He will soon realise that their jungle mufasa is not as the one seen on TV |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by Snipper007: 7:07am On Feb 05, 2020 |
libertyfather: Yes simba and his monkey uncle |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by Obinnau(m): 7:14am On Feb 05, 2020 |
Baboon has gotten a pet.
Nature is wonderful anyways |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by amunkita(m): 7:31am On Feb 05, 2020 |
Yanga dey sleep baboon go wake am.. It's jst a matter of time, the baboon will know "Life is not fair"... 1 Like |
Re: Rare Sight As Male Baboon Is Seen Grooming Lion Cub Like Its Own Baby by bigiyaro(m): 7:44am On Feb 05, 2020 |
see baboon wet get liver! cubnaknapping, a lion pikin. they is going to be a rumble in the jungle, make the mama find out first. |
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