Chiquita and Buddy

We've received two new young baboons here recently. Yesterday a vervet sanctuary nearby dripped off Buddy, a two year old Cape baboon that was being held as a pet in a township under not so nice conditions. He's a bit bigger than our babies here who are all under a year old, but he is playing with them quite well for now. He'll probably be moving into an older troop soon. He seems very interested in all the older baboons around.

Chiquita was a wild baboon who they thought showed signs of tetanus. They took her away from her mother, Cheeky, to be sure. She didn't have tetanus but they think she may have fractured her skull and had some head trauma. She acted very strange and disoriented for about 10 days. We tried to see if her mother would take her back into the wild, but Cheeky wanted nothing to do with Chiquita anymore, very sadly. For now Chiquita is trying to get acquainted with a couple volunteers and a couple babies until she is ready to go into the baby hok full time. She would most likely be dead by now if she was left in the wild.