The senior baboons have recently gone through a ‘rebranding exercise’ and are now called the ‘Juniors’. The reason for this is that since Bonnie, Lola, Clyde and Gus were moved from the baby camp into the junior camp, the average age of the group is much younger than before and, with the exception of Bloomie, all of the baboons in this group are still very young adolescents therefore the group is now known as the Juniors.
Another change in the Juniors camp is that Marlice, with the assistance of either Abraham or Soloman, has now taken over doing the Junior walks. This means that the Junior walks tend to be a far more orderly affair then before!
The ever spoilt Bloomie was in her element recently as she was treated to a pizza! The plan was to give all of the baboons a bit of the pizza, however little miss greedy Bloomie decided that she wanted the whole pizza for herself and would let any of the other juniors anywhere near it! As each slice of pizza was thrown into the baboon camp, Bloomie would scoop them up and hold onto them with one hand whilst eating with the other. At one point she had three pieces of pizza in one hand and her mouth stuffed full of another slice!
A brief update on the baboon film shoot in South Africa – following all the work done earlier this year measuring many of our junior and adult baboons ready for their participation in a film being shot in South Africa, the film schedule has unfortunately been put back until later in the year so our budding film stars are going to have to wait a little longer to make their film debuts!
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