The hare and the baboon.

Baboons are the most common monkeys in Africa and they are found everywhere. From the Ethiopian highlands to Cape Town, the ubiquitous baboon can be seen sunning themselves in clans of 30 or 40 to a few hundred in the wilds. Baboons are omnivores and will eat pretty much anything they can get hold of, but the one thing they are not known for is hunting. However it happens on occasion and we had the opportunity to see it happen.

I never realized how fast they can be having only seen them in short bursts now and then heading for trees. I now know baboons can move very fast when they want to and when we saw one going hell for leather through the bush we followed along with the car and what we saw was a hare running for its life. The baboon amazingly caught and made short work of it with its 3 inch long teeth. By the time the dust settled and we got to where the baboon was, he was already well on his way eating the hare. Made for a few pictures and a cool story.