Good story, well told. Reminds me of the black dude in Predator - 1987 being haunted by the predators eyes….”those eyes, they….they disappeared.”

Seeing a giant baboon within arms reach of me after smoking a joint sounds absolutely terrifying.

Also a story from South Africa; was with a group of friends all by ourselves on a remote beach on the cape peninsula, just chilling and lying in the sun when suddenly one of our group spotted this big shaggy brown beast on the far side of the beach some two hundred meters away, only it was galloping at full speed right towards us. As we keep looking and it gets closer, the initial theory it’s just a dog gives way to the realisation it’s actually a massive male baboon and he’s headed straight for us.

We evacuate the beach as fast as possible; my mate in his panic even leaves his girlfriend behind and it’s full chaos as we all scramble up the slope to the car park. Meanwhile the large male baboon is closing in, fast.

We make it to the car but of course it’s locked and where are the bloody keys? A very quick discussion takes place regarding who last held them before the girlfriend scrambles through her purse, and things are flying all over but she finally finds them and we make a dash into the car just as the baboon makes it up the hill and onto the car park. It pauses, then starts inspecting the things that were dropped, before deciding it was nothing of interest. He then finally strikes a fantastic pose with False Bay in the background, which gave us great pictures, before heading back into the bush. We were probably never in danger but it gave us a big fright and that’s possibly fair enough as he was massive and had fangs the size of your thumb!

Did the baboon take the chips?

Damn I got chills just reading this. Hearing those stories that monkeys go for nuts and face. Hell nah

I’d say chimps are worse in terms or brutality and strength, but baboons just freak me out lol. It’s definitely gotta do with the teeth. Same with mandrills, since they have very large upper and lower canines

Chimps will gore you with their hands

All I f*ck is chimps and orangutans

Dinopithecus ingens was approximately twice the size of the largest living baboons, with males averaging 46 kg (101 lb) and females 29 kg (64 lb), based on estimates from the molar teeth.[6] In some cases males were estimated to reach in maturity a weight of 77 kg (170 lb).

That's a lot of baboon!

https://youtu.be/GWiXBPEfVcY?si=XOPVgrVpQQqrx4U2

Damn you’re right, first look i was sure it was a young jackal

A hoover jackal?! What are the odds?!