Baboon eats childs brain
 

Disturbing story... thought Id share :uhoh



Baboon eats baby in front of mom

DAN DHLAMINI

A YOUNG mother this week watched helplessly as a baboon snatched and ripped open the skull of her only child and ate his brain.

The mother of the dead child, Lettie Goitsimang Tukane (34), told City Press the baboon sank its powerful canines into the skull of her three-month-old son, removed the brain, climbed up a high telephone pole and ate the brain before fleeing into nearby bush.

The bizarre and tragic incident occurred at a cattle post in the remote North West village of Madipelesa outside Pampierstad, where Tukane and fiancé Oupa Goeiman live.

Tukane said her son Neo was sleeping in a bed in one of the rooms while she was busy washing dishes in another room when she heard his screams.

She said when she rushed outside she saw a huge baboon carrying Neo under one of its arms. She tried to scare it off, but the baboon was aggressive and it wanted to attack her too.

"It happened so quickly that by the time neighbours came and threw stones and set dogs on it, it had already eaten the brain and scuttled into the bush. I could not believe my eyes when I picked up Neo.

"He was still breathing and his skull was opened and he was bleeding profusely," said Tukane.

She said Neo was her only child and she hoped he would live because her other children died of natural causes before they reached one year.

She said after the funeral they would contact a sangoma to check if the incident was not witchcraft related.

The incident, the first of its kind in the area, has shocked people in the North West, especially in the areas of Seoding, Sekhing, Madipelesa and Pampierstad.

Petrus Malgas, who tried to help rescue little Neo, told City Press that when he and other neighbours threw stones at the baboon, it climbed up the telephone pole and nonchalantly devoured the child's brain before it fled into the bush.

Saomeng Phalatse of Sekhing said the whole episode boiled down to witchcraft, because it was unheard of that a baboon would eat a human being.

"Although some people with western beliefs do not believe it, we know for a fact that African chemistry works in these areas.

"A few years ago in Taung an inyanga, through her medicines, caused a young man to find himself with his bed and all on the top of his roof.

"The incident was even shown on Bop TV. Why should we not believe Tukane was bewitched?" said Gomotseng Badirwang, clutching her two-month-old baby.



North West senior environmental officer Richard Gasealahwe said chacma baboons were prevalent in the area, including at the Blue Pool heritage site near Buxton in Taung.

Gasealahwe dismissed suggestions of witchcraft, saying the baboon might have thought the child was one of the small goats which Goeiman kept in one of the rooms at the cattle post.

"The area is teeming with chacma baboons, which are normally tame. However, when they are very hungry they become aggressive and they eat small goats, starting with the brain.

"They also rip off and eat the goats' udders and would also go to residential areas looking for food," Gasealahwe.

William Mekgwe of Nature Conservation said the baboon that killed little Neo was an old male, "Rotwe", which had been rejected by the troop.

He said they had arranged with their problem animal control unit to trap the baboon because it would go back to the house again, hoping to get small goats.

http://www.news24.com/City_Press/Cit...370662,00.html

Fucked up.

But don't some people eat monkey brains?

Maybe the Baboon was just using Bush's new strategy of "pre-emption"?

fuckin' awesome!!! AWESOME I SAY!!!!



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Devastating story !!!

Hello Clarice....

:xomunch

Read this : http://www.maxent.org/ch/monkey_brains_ad.html

They get the little monkeys drunk with rice wine then cut open their skull to scoop out the brain while its still alive and chained down to the plate.

http://www.maxent.org/ch/images/01_table.jpg


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The more people yell, the louder the scream will be, and the sooner the scream will be heard.

"She said after the funeral they would contact a sangoma to check if the incident was not witchcraft related. "



sangoma ??? Isnt he the guy who owns XFR Networks?

Ray, are you this "sangoma " she is seeking?

That story gives me the willies...man.

:repuke

That would be one fucked up thing to see!

The horrible thing is they used to just tie the monkeys up, tape their mouth shout so the pain screams couldn't be heard, stick their head through an opening in the table, and then people would just cut its head open to start eating the brains. How anyone could do that to a living creature, and then eat its brain with blood still squirting around is mind boggling.

I don't know what it is with the Asian cultures, but they certainly have no emotional bonds with animals it seems.

:ak47:

That's fucked up..

I guess he wasn't The One.

I want my baby back baby back baby back..ribs...

FUCK THAT if some monkey ran off with my child i WOULD DIE trying to get them back. fuck weather that monkey looked like it wanted to attatck me, better than my kid!

:( disturbing to say the least

fuckin Crazy!

Yep, that's it...blame it on witchcraft... fucking morons..

So the monkey didn't eat the whole brain? I mean they said the kid was alive... bah

I blame LikeWhoa.

LikeWhoa Kills Children! :mad:

Her other kids died of natural causes by the age of 1? Natural as in the plaque? Or did they just catch colds that the witch doctor couldnt cure? They really need childrens advil in wherever-the-fuck.

They died of Gingervitus

so the baboon at a fox?
no i didnt read the story

That's totally fucked up :throwup

I am

Update:


Baby-biting baboon shot dead

Posted Fri, 13 Jun 2003

A baboon which bit a three-month-old baby boy from the North West on the head, killing him, was shot dead by police and nature conservation officials on Thursday, police reported.

Superintendent Louis Jacobs said the baboon, which was an old male, died instantly.

"We are quite sure we got the right baboon because this same baboon attacked a goat and the teeth marks on the goat skin match that of the baboon," he said.

On June 3 Betty Tukane (34) was washing dishes around midday and left her infant, Neo, sleeping inside her house in the village of Madipelesa, near the border between the North West and the Northern Cape.

She heard the baby screaming and ran into the bedroom to see him being carried away by the baboon.

Tukane tried to rescue her son but the baboon evaded her. The mother called for help and neighbours came with dogs. The baboon became aggressive and bit the child on the head and dropped him before disappearing into thick bush that surrounds the village.

Jacobs said nature conservation officials had initially put out cages in an attempt to catch the baboon, known in the area by the Tswana name Rotwe (outcast), but this was unsuccessful.

On Tuesday three members of the Klerksdorp public order policing unit members and nature conservation officials were deployed in the Kgomotso area in an attempt to locate the baboon.

"We had quite a good description of him, he was old male and one of his incisors was missing. He was always moving with, but on the side of, a troop," Jacobs said.

The police and conservationists tried to establish the troop's pattern of movement and, from early on Thursday morning attempted to locate the troop, which was spotted around 4.30pm together with a young baboon.

Jacobs said the old male went into the bushes when it saw the humans, with the police and conservationists followed it for around a kilometre. It was then properly sited, and shot in the chest.

Sapa

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/244649.htm