Friday 13 June 2014

Baboon Parliament



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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