ADOPTED BY BABOON.
BABY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
YEARS SPENT IN THE BUSH
LONDON, June 23 A well-authernticated case of
baboon adopting a negro baby is reported from South Africa. “Presumably the mother baboon lost her own young and adopted the baby through her maternal instinct,” said Professor Ruggles Gates, of London University. The boy, now 12, was captured by a police patrol near Grahamstown, and could only utter guttural noises. Later he was taught English, and is now working on a farm. He says he walked on all-fours, slept in the bush naked, and ate crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pear, mealies, and wild honey. Often he was stung by bees when robbing hives. -.iii “An ostrich kicked me in the head -when I was raiding a nest,” ho added. ■Professor Gates sees no reason to disbelieve the hoy, although this is the first case of a baboon adopting a child which bears and wolves have done m India.,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 224, 5 July 1939, Page 6
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