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BABOON ADOPTS BABY BOY'S ‘LIFE IN BUSH (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlg-ht) LONDON, June 28 - A well-authenticated case of a 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 Buggies Gates, of Loudon University The hoy, now 12, was captured by a police patrol near Gr&hamstown, and could only utter guttural noises. Later, lie was taught English, and is now working on a farm, lie says he walked on all-fours, slept in the bush naked, and ate crickets, ostrieli eggs, prickly pear, mealies, and wild honey. Often he was 'stung bv bees when robbing hives. “An ostrich kicked me in the head when I was raiding a nest," he added. Professor Gates sees no reason to disbelieve the boy, although this is the first case of a baboon adopting a child, which bears and wolves have done in India.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20843, 29 June 1939, Page 5
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