Hi again,

In the grasslands of Kenya there has been an amazing discovery about the Olive Baboon.

An anthropologist has been studding the baboons for 42 years and say that that is not
enough time to see the baboons natural habits.  The baboons have been suffering due to the human population doubling and climate and environmental change. The baboons then had to readjust their lifestyle when they changed their habitat. They then also had to change their diet to the prickly pear.
While other animals suffered the consequences by eating the fruit like mouth and gut ulcers and internal bleeding caused by the hairs on the fruit the baboons knew how to cope. The baboons rub the prickly pear in the dirt to get the hairs off and in the dry season the males would squeeze the juice out of the fruit and eat the skin after. Since they changed their diet to the prickly pear they have become healthier.

The Olive Baboon is such a smart animal!