Sitting nearly 120 km from Nairobi is the magnificent shield
volcano; Mt Suswa. Suswa has a unique double crater with a moat like ring. It
is also famous for its lava tubes and caves. Two caves are particularly famous:
the leopard cave (Where a local leopard is rumoured to have his evening meals)
and the Baboon Parliament.
The Baboon Parliament is a natural structure that resembles
an actual parliament. Cave walls have been worn, glassy smooth, by the
generations of climbing baboons. The baboons troop leader (Alpha Male) is known
to perch high up on rock out crop of the central chamber, seemingly addressing
the rest.
Besides making over 30 sounds to communicate, baboons also
use gestures that includes; pointing, nodding and most famously shrugging
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