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Fed Is A Dead Baboon Baboon (a baboon is a baboon eats dead)

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text and image, Sandrine New

In South Africa, baboons, like many wild animals are still free to move at will and frequently occur at the edge of - or even on-road. Foreign tourists visiting this beautiful country are excited about the opportunity to see wild animals so close, so they are not even in a nature reserve. Perhaps believing in helping these wild animals to survive, or more likely to take a good photo, it is not uncommon for these visitors "innocent" share some of their meals with the baboons.

But this gesture seemingly innocent and harmless may actually be the point from big, big problems. So why anyone (foreign or South African) should never feed a baboon (and by extension any wild animal in any country)?

1. First, feed the baboons is illegal, as recalled the many signs along the roads. Ignoring them can get you in trouble with the law and expose you to pay a fine salt. But the first reason is, in my opinion, the least important of all.

2. In reality, this is not helping wildlife that feed them. Indeed, it is a way of making them dependent on humans for survival. In a country like Kenya tourism, baboons have learned to expect treats tourists along the roads linking the airport to hotels. Although it may seem hard (I also love animals), if an animal can not survive without your help, it probably is not supposed to survive ...

3. Not only the baboons are wild animals, and devrainet be respected as such (any wild animal is potentially dangerous), but they can be big, strong and aggressive. A male baboon can weigh 40kg, her teeth are longer than those of a leopard, and he will not hesitate to use them, especially if he feels - and feels that her troupe - in danger. In addition, there is rarely an isolated baboon, the large dominant male mentioned above may very well have a whole troop support.
By feeding baboons, you put yourself in danger, and you put people in your group in danger.

4. The baboons that are fed by humans are no longer afraid of them. They venture ever closer to homes and cars in search of food, and do not hesitate to enter: some months ago, two large baboons entered by breaking the roof of a house in Constancia, and Cape Point where the baboons have become a scourge and a danger, they open the doors cars and go, even when there are passengers inside. Baboons feed back to create a problem in the long term future for tourists and locals.

5. Most South Africans have little regard for these wonderful and very intelligent monkeys that are baboons, and do not hesitate to shoot them on sight when they come too close to their property when they do not poison not. By that baboons regard humans as providers of food, you do not help either baboons. Their reputation and their conflicting relationships with humans, can only deteriorate further, and turn the most often to the disadvantage of the baboon.

Here's how the simple gesture, and may be perfectly innocent, give a cookie or an apple to a baboon, leading to another takes such proportions that resulted in the death of baboons: "A Fed Baboon Is A Dead Baboon "(" A baboon is a baboon fed dead ").