Baboons Are Wise Farmers

Don’t think that animals in the wild will eat anything.  Sometimes they can have very discerning palate.

Manyara-Baboon

In South Africa an orange farmer was constantly perplexed when year after year a troop of baboons would descend from the mountain on his orange groves and out of thousands of orange trees to choose from would always go to one particular tree and strip it completely of all of its fruit yet would not touch another tree.

The farmer had no explanation for this and finally decided he had to find out why.  He discovered that it was different variety from all the other trees he had with fruit that was sweeter and ripened earlier than the other trees in his orchard.  He later discovered that he had a brand new variety of a mineola orange!