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Rock-throwing baboons break hikers’ legs: ‘Exploded on impact’ | New York Post

Three hikers in South Africa sustained broken legs following an attack by “agitated” baboons, who rolled a large boulder down at them. A Facebook post detailing the alleged interspecies assault is currently blowing up on Facebook.

“Three hikers all suffered broken legs – after a boulder smashed down a mountain,” reads the shocking post, which was posted by the Western Cape-based Wilderness Search and Rescue.

According to the post, the freak incident occurred last month after a group of seven hikers embarked on an abseiling expedition in the remote Banhoek mountains in the Western Cape.

The excursion was going well until the second day when the adventurers stopped for lunch and noticed a troop of Cape baboons on a cliff above them. The simians — which are some of the world’s biggest monkeys, weighing up to 80 pounds and measuring four feet long — appeared “agitated and curious” about the humans below, per the post.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/rock-throwing-baboons-break-hikers-legs-exploded-on-impact/

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