Baboon vs. Flamingos | National Geographic

this is East Africa the Great Rift
Valley a land in constant upheaval the
flamingos and baboons here at Lake
Bogoria live in harmony
they share this landscape and all it has
blossomed
they may not be compatible but in the
midst of buggery is bounty they can
afford to be indifferent in July after a
successful breeding season nearly 4
million flamingos gather along the seams
of the Great Rift Valley
they clog the inlets and proud the local
residents
the baboon’s who live here all year
round can’t help to take notice of the
sheer numbers of new arrivals some bad
rumors have never seen as many flamingos
and some of them don’t know how to
behave
there are so many birds at Bogoria that
they trip over each other in order to
escape baboons are meat-eaters but this
is something unusual for baboons
choosing between fruits and flesh is a
simple matter for the
until now such an orchestrated attack on
fingers as rarely witnessed or recorded
the graceful wading birds become a
buffet of pink feathers and the young
have discovered a new taste and they
like it perhaps this is nature’s coldly
a different way of restoring balance