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On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:32:04 GMT, (Eugene
Griessel) wrote:
I believe papapeng is Mandarin for "small penis". Is this
true?
Size matters. 1.3 billion beats your 0.3 billion any day.
How do you connect Eugene to a population of 0.3 billion?
I'm guessing that's the number of baboons that live in Eugene's 'hood.
Unless the ranks have been culled during the recent xenophobe attacks
down
there ...
- nillita
Shhhhhh!
Please say that very, very softly otherwise the "Friends of the Baboon"
will
be picketing your doorstep!
But you may be onto something, the baboon population of the Cape
Peninsula
area is booming since the expansion of the Table Mountain National Park.
Vervet monkeys have recently been seen in my 'hood for the first time in
recorded history!
I live in the Karoo - a semi-desert area almost devoid of trees or large
shrubbery, not ideal monkey country at all.
Do vervets and baboons compete for the same resources, or are vervets a
dietary resource for the baboons?
No mention of baboon predation of monkeys in the authorotative reference by
Skinner & Skead "Mammals of the Southern African Subregion". I'll try to
remember to ask a zoologist friend when I next see her. Both species are
omnivores but the monkeys "normally" keep to relatively dense woodland while
baboons prefer more open sananna. Baboons are up to 6 times the weight of
vervet monkeys.
BTW, going by the distribution map of vervets in the aformentioned book, the
monkeys in my area are a couple of hundred km from "home", but then the
monkeys don't seem to have read the book!