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To solve the mystery of where Punt was, a team of scientists is turning to two mummified baboons in the British Museum... One was found at Thebes and the other in the Valley of the Kings. The team is conducting oxygen isotope tests on the preserved hairs of the baboons. Oxygen isotopes act as a 'signal' that can tell scientists where an animal is from... To aid in narrowing down the location of Punt the team is also performing oxygen isotope tests on samples of modern day baboons from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Uganda and Mozambique. If the oxygen isotope...

Throughout their history the ancient Egyptians recorded making voyages to a place called the 'Land of Punt'. To the Egyptians it was a far-off source of exotic animals and valuable goods. From there they brought back perfumes, panther skins, electrum, and, yes, live baboons to keep as pets. The voyages started as early as the Old Kingdom, ca. 4,500 years ago, and continued until just after the collapse of the New Kingdom 3,000 years ago. Egyptologists have long argued about the location of Punt. The presence of perfumes suggests that it was located somewhere in Arabia, such as Yemen. However...

A video on social media shows a teacher being knocked to the floor after a female student hurls a chair at her head at a school in Flint, Michigan. The female student was arguing with another female student who was standing on the other side of the teacher. Students in the classroom stood around, while one of them filmed the altercation. The video was posted on September 28. A source familiar with the situation told The Post Millennial that the teacher was knocked unconscious and remains in the hospital. The female students screamed at each other prior to one of...

Baboons can stand in for humans during cross-species transplantation studies. Now, for the first time, researchers have kept baboons alive and healthy for up to six months on transplanted pig hearts. Credit: Paul A. Sounders ========================================================================= In four adjacent enclosures transplantation researcher Bruno Reichart kept four happy baboons. “They can hop around, eat, drink and they are enjoying life,” he says. “They watch TV—their favorite is the cartoon with the chipmunk.” Most importantly, he says, they were healthy and normal—which is astonishing, given the fact that the hearts beating life in their chests were anything but normal for a baboon....

Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer shared photos of his guided hunting trip in Africa with friends and colleagues when he returned last month, expecting they’d appreciate his success. Instead, several former Fish and Game commissioners are pushing for his resignation — with a photo of a “family of baboons” that Fischer shot with a recurve bow prompting most of the outrage. Fred Trevey, who was a Fish and Game commissioner from 2007 to 2015, wrote Fischer an email asking him to resign “to shield the commission as an institution and hunting as a legitimate tool of wildlife management...

A baboon is on the loose at San Antonio International Airport after escaping its crate, according to officials. Public Information Officer Evelynn Bailey said that the baboon was flown in on American Airlines from Brown University in New Jersey.

Has there ever been a TV host who scolds, reprimands and even shuts down guests as often as does Joy Reid? Reid was at it again on her MSNBC show this morning. This time, the target of her ire was Jason Johnson, former chief strategist to Sen. Ted Cruz. When Johnson committed the unforgivable sin of twice referring to the “Democrat” party, Reid interrupted: “You’re new to our show, but we say ‘Democratic’ party here.” Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

TV reporter Sabrina Rodriguez got fondled by frisky baboon, but she kept on smiling. Mickey the baboon bared his teeth while grabbing her chest and held on during the live shot.What a cheeky baboon. TV reporter Sabrina Rodriguez got groped during a live broadcast by a baboon who grabbed a handful of her breast and hung on. The baboon refused to let go during the live broadcast in the central California city of Lodi. The Fox 40 journalist didn’t lose her cool and continued to extol the virtues of a local wine festival in Lodi, Calif., while smiling broadly. The...

Mercy in Nature, but no Mercy in Humanity, Somethings wrong...

Baboon gets "handys" during live shoot. Lazamataz says "If I had a son, he'd look like that baboon"

Baboons can recognize scores of written words, a feat that raises intriguing questions about how we learn to read, scientists reported on Thursday. In a specially-made facility in France where they could come and go at will, monkeys learned to differentiate between a real word, such as KITE, and a nonsense word such as ZEVS. The baboons had access to a large enclosure with several touch-sensitive computer screens, each projecting a four-letter word. The animals had to tap one of two shapes on the screen to show that they understood whether the word was a real one or garble. Choosing...

A bizarre report of Taliban insurgents training monkeys and baboons to shoot at U.S. and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan seems unrealistic at best, according to an expert. The story that appeared this month in the Chinese People's Daily suggested that insurgents used a reward-and-punishment system to train macaques and baboons to target soldiers wearing U.S. military uniforms. The Taliban supposedly "taught monkeys how to use the Kalashnikov, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars," the People's Daily wrote.

Bollywood actress Shamita Shetty's hotel room in South Africa was ransacked by baboons. Shamita, who is accompanying her sister, actress Shilpa in South Africa, was on a safari in Singita Game Reserves with Shilpa and her beau Raj Kundra and some "close friends and family in toe". "...It's been a great weekend. Shamita loved every bit of it till she went to her room and discovered her room was ransacked by the Baboons... apparently they knew where the mini bar is and we were warned when we checked in to keep all doors locked when we leave the room...Obviously someone...

LIKE many longtime couples, Carlie and Bob, independent animal rescue workers in upstate New York who have been together 21 years, have a difference of opinion about one big issue in their relationship. In their case, it is about a 7-year-old Hamadryas baboon named Higgins, who spends a good part of most evenings watching HDTV in his heated monkey house, often holding hands with Bob. Carlie thinks that it is time to ship Higgins to a baboon preserve, and Bob wants to keep him at home. “Here’s the bottom line,” Carlie says. “I only believe people should have pets that...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Normally they chatter, joke and play music with a driving beat but on Monday "Tweety Bird" and "The Baboon" helped fill the streets of Los Angeles with hundreds of thousands of immigrants demanding to become citizens. The Spanish language radio personalities of southern California and many other regions have been the de facto leaders of a Latino call to protest on immigrant rights. And their listeners -- in the United States both legally and illegally -- have been paying close heed as they drive from job to job, a group united by their car radios. "Latino...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 - In hiring Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning director of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, to remake the monster classic "King Kong," Universal Pictures took a daring leap, paying him $20 million to direct, produce and be the co-writer of the film. With seven weeks to go before the movie's release, the risks are becoming clearer. After seeing a version of the film in late September at Mr. Jackson's studio in New Zealand, Universal executives agreed to release "King Kong" at a length of three hours. The film is substantially longer than Universal had anticipated and...

Men surrender after baboon slur03/08/2005 22:37  - (SA)   Zinkie Sithole  Polokwane - Three men have been charged with calling a petrol attendant a baboon. One of the three men, who is aged 34, and two others, aged 23, handed themselves over to the Polokwane police on Wednesday. "They were brought in by their legal adviser.They're not in custody, but have been warned to appear in court on Friday," said Polokwane police spokesperson Lesiba Ramoshaba. Petrol attendant Isaac Sebata has accused the men of calling him a baboon last week and slapping him during an argument. "We don't know yet what led...

A pregnant baboon being loaded on a Continental Airlines plane at Bush Intercontinental Airport Wednesday briefly escaped when the door to her cage opened. The animal was able to climb up into the rafters under an elevated terminal concourse. She was eventually safely subdued and put back into her cage. But other baboons in her group had already started their journey to San Francisco. The plane didn't wait - the baboon was bumped. She eventually got on another flight.

"I THOUGHT he was a baboon," that is what a white South African farmer told the police after shooting dead a Zimbabwean worker in Musina, just along the border with Zimbabwe. Evil Jewell Crossberg not only shot Jealous Dube of Mberengwa but went on to lie to the cops about the circumstances of his death, it was revealed in court. South Africa Police Services’ Limpopo Provincial Police spokesperson, Senior Superintendent Motlasalaphela Mojapelo said Dube was shot dead on Tuesday morning, apparently after a row. Crossberg has appeared in court and was bailed out for R8 000. South African prosecutors will...

...Take his deion of his fellow countrymen and their blind pursuit of the American Dream: "They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks. "We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing. National Geographic produced a survey which showed that 60 per cent of 18-25 year olds don't know where Great Britain is on a map. And 92 per cent of us don't own a passport."