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And then, there was a third act began. Suddenly we heard an unearthly

shrieking! A very young baby baboon was sitting alone and forlorn on a
branch screaming for his mother. Somehow she had wandered off,

forgetting about him it appeared. Well, the screams produced the result
he wanted and mother came racing back to fetch him. The wails

stopped immediately but the story wasn't over.

Quite unexpectedly, the big Alpha Male baboon came roaring in,

accompanied by a couple of other adults, and he began what George
said was disciplining the errant mother.

They chased her around and cuffed at her occasionally and made some
pretty terrifying vocalizations.

She gathered her wits and took her baby off into the distance. George
told us that this mother will not ever wander off from her helpless

youngster. This was a lesson indeed!

Our most exciting sighting of a big cat was a leopard and her cub. We

found the mother taking the sun on a fallen tree right next to the road.
She let us look at her for less than a minute, then calmly made her way

into the brush. George knew where she usually left her cub and drove