Aug 9, 2011
Baboons kidnap puppies and raise them as pets
This clip is hard to watch from about :30 to 1:40 because the baboon is less than gentle with the puppy he nabs.
Still, pretty fascinating…
(via Ever So Strange)
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I think the way the baboon is pulling this puppy around and dragging it across rocks, is hardly a nice , animal clip, its b pretty harsh and horrible. I dod not enjoy this at all.
avril.
This is so hard to watch, I couldn’t watch all of it. I think that I don’t like baboons at all now. I thought they were perhaps more humane than this. I guess I was way off.
Don’t dislike baboons but don’t anthropomorphize (humanize) them either. They are only being baboons. Not ‘mean’ or ‘cruel’ by their standards, just being the animals they are.
The fact that this is done by males is likely because unless they are the alphas they stand little chance of ever siring offspring. They want the joy of an interdependent relationship and one of them discovered, probably by observing the dogs, that puppies can provide that.
Baboons are very smart but very vicious. They hunt as a pack. They have been known to kill humans, especially children.
Unfortunately, because they are also social primates and comparatively easy to observe (they tend to forage in open areas), some early anthropologists used them as animal models for humans. This is a mistake.
They are monkeys not apes and much more like other social predators (hyenas, wild dogs, etc) than most apes, including ourselves.
I have seen humans treat animals worse that that baboon treated that dog, I have seen humans treat CHILDREN worse then that baboon that dog.
Wait – but why does the dog near the end have a collar? Did the baboons fashion that for him?