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Baboons Make Trouble for Construction Team
Topic Started: Jul 30 2006, 03:34 AM (68 Views)
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Baboons Make Trouble for Construction Team
Jul 29, 10:30 AM (ET)

http://story.news.ask.com//article/20060729/D8J5N29O0.html


LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Zoo officials installed an electric fence around a construction site to protect workers from 120 primate hecklers, an animal park in northern England said Friday.

A band of baboons began screeching and chattering when a team of construction workers commenced work to renovate the primate enclosure at Knowsley Safari Park, close to the city of Liverpool, about 210 miles north of London.

Worried that the baboons would become violent, workers at the animal park - which also houses lions, rhino and elephants - have installed the fence to contain them.

"Because we're effectively in a cage and the animals are free to roam around us, we do feel as though the roles are reversed and we are the exhibit," said Geoff Ames, the construction project manager.
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I love it, Jezzie. How apropros! You made my day by sharing this. I've often felt primates have more expertise dealing with events affecting them than we do!
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