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Article: Wild in Africa then ... ... and now.
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- Highlights for Children
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- September 1, 2001
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"Yai, Yai, Yai, Yai, Yai!" My young friend Souleymane ran, shouting and waving a stick. A dozen baboons screamed and ran from the field, some of them still holding ears of corn. When they reached the edge of the field, two big male baboons turned and yawned their toothy threats. Souleymane rushed at them again, rattling a tin can with pebbles in it. "You leave our maize alone!"
It was the eleventh time since yesterday morning. The raiders came just as the corn was ripening, of course: porcupines, elephants, warthogs, monkeys, bushbucks, birds, and now baboons! Souleymane watched the animals escape into the safety of the Nazinga Forest, a place in Burkina Faso, ...