Monkey see, monkey threw: Three hikers in South Africa sustained broken legs following an attack by “agitated” baboons, who rolled a large boulder down at them.
Monkey see, monkey threw.
The excursion was going well until the second day when the adventurers stopped for lunch and noticed a troop of Cape baboons on a cliff above them. The simians — which are some of the The massive stone “exploded on impact,” sending shards of “razor-sharp rock” flying into the hikers like shrapnel, breaking three of their legs and leaving another with a flesh wound. Meanwhile, a fifth hiker was nearly knocked over a ledge by a stone but was halted mid-fall by his safety harness.
Upon arrival, the team used winches to lower paramedics unto the ledge where the climbers were huddled. The most seriously-injured hiker was then “packed into a stretcher and flown to a nearby landing zone,” while “the remaining two patients were hoisted from the ledge in rescue harnesses.”All three were subsequently transported to the hospital while the four uninjured hikers made their own way down the cliff.
“Whether they were deliberately throwing the rocks at the hikers or just dislodging them I guess will never be known but that was a lot of rocks to accidentally dislodge,” theorized one ape researcher, who specializes in rescuing the primates from urban areas,She added that baboons “can become easily upset by things they are not used to and would be used to humans walking along cliff paths but not abseiling down them.
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