Chapter Thirty-Nine
Rotten Meat, Tuberculosis, Baboons
In the 1980’s, in Kenya there was a forest troop of
baboons. This troop was led and brutalized
by a group of aggressive males. A raiding
party of the most aggressive apes traveled some distance to a garbage dump. This troop came upon another troop at the dump
and battled. Our aggressive, forest troop
won the spoils, literally. They feasted
on rotten, tuberculosis infested meat they found among the refuse. The food poisoning kept the raid party from
rejoining the rest of the troop, and the tuberculosis killed them.
What happened next was amazing. The forest troop became a baboon utopia. There was no bullying, no hoarding, no aggression. Instead affection and sharing were the order
of the day. New males that joined the
troop quickly adopted to the new ways.
By all accounts, the forest troop still lives a peaceful existence.
Remember this story.
It’s the key to everything that happens. Or a lot of it, anyway.
(c) Copyright 2020 by Diana Hignutt
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