{"id":350,"date":"2006-03-09T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=350"},"modified":"2006-03-09T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T14:04:24","slug":"wanted-anti-baboon-canisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/03\/09\/wanted-anti-baboon-canisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: anti-baboon canisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=14&#038;click_id=14&#038;art_id=vn20060309024841282C463351\">Seems the hikers in South Africa <\/a>are being hassled by baboons with a taste for human food.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the baboons had rummaged through their bags at leisure, the hikers carried on, but 45 minutes later were faced by another troop.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;A few minutes later a large male baboon with a deep gash in his left shoulder and fresh scars on his face, appeared above us,&#8221; Clayden said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;He calmly walked right up to Janine (Nelson) and took her pack off her back. I could not believe this was happening and was blown away by the show of bravado.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;After finding nothing worth eating, he calmly walked over to me and took my pack.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe men in the party launched a &#8220;barrage of stones&#8221; that left the adult baboons unfazed. Too afraid to carry on, the group turned back. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least they don&#8217;t weigh 600 pounds and have claws that can remove your scalp in one swipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems the hikers in South Africa are being hassled by baboons with a taste for human food. After the baboons had rummaged through their bags at leisure, the hikers carried on, but 45 minutes later were faced by another troop.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/03\/09\/wanted-anti-baboon-canisters\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}