Baboons Are Smart Critters

The Knowsley Safari Park
wants their visitors to know that the babbons are smart.  They
have figured out how to open car-top cargo carriers.



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This is not actually a candid photo.  It was staged, in order to
educate the visitors about his potential problem with their Papio
anubis
population.



Source: Cellar
Image of the Day


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