Still Waters Posted August 2, 2013 #1 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Staff at a zoo in the Netherlands say they are baffled by their baboons, who have spent days sitting still, huddled together in fear and hardly eating. The behaviour started on Monday evening, and only now are the 112 baboons becoming their normal, active selves again, said a biologist at Emmen Zoo. The zoo still has no idea what spooked the hamadryas baboons, but it is a good sign that some are now eating apples, biologist Wijbren Landman said. http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-23546146 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-C Posted August 2, 2013 #2 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Curious. And apparently they have no cameras to check for a clue. I wonder if a certain sound or frequency (electronic) used by a human visitor to the zoo could have spooked them? But so infrequently, idk? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted August 3, 2013 #3 Share Posted August 3, 2013 (edited) Emmen's quite a quiet place (and the zoo's fantastic!!), so i think maybe QC could be onto something and possibly it was some sort of subsonic frequency? but if that was the case, then why didn't the elephants react to it, as elephants can hear very low frequency sound (and there's a LOT of elephants at emmen zoo!)? babboons aren't usually noted for being skittish, as anyone who's had their car dismantled by a mob of 'em at a safari park can testify, so it's weird how over 100 of 'em can get freaked all together! anyone know mulder & scully's phone number.....? Edited August 3, 2013 by Saru Removed drug reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted August 3, 2013 #4 Share Posted August 3, 2013 Hash can make you paranoid at times. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolci Posted August 3, 2013 #5 Share Posted August 3, 2013 They felt there was gonna be an earthquake on a tsunami or a meteor strike and prepared for death, then ET came and saved us and left unnoticed and unacknowledged. The only logical explanation I'm afraid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted August 3, 2013 #6 Share Posted August 3, 2013 (edited) Hash can make you paranoid at times. . that's why i wondered if it was in Artis zoo in 'dam El, and that they'd just picked up some good spacecake! (in Artis zoo they have hundreds of meerkats running around all over the place, no cages no nuthin', and THAT's good for a giggle when you've just picked up some good spacecake.....) ;-) Edited August 3, 2013 by shrooma 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted August 3, 2013 #7 Share Posted August 3, 2013 . that's why i wondered if it was in Artis zoo in 'dam El, and that they'd just picked up some good spacecake! (in Artis zoo they have hundreds of meerkats running around all over the place, no cages no nuthin', and THAT's good for a giggle when you've just picked up some good spacecake.....) ;-) I prefer to imagine them all sitting smoking joints and listening to Pink Floyd. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted August 3, 2013 #8 Share Posted August 3, 2013 I prefer to imagine them all sitting smoking joints and listening to Pink Floyd. lol . kinda like Fat Freddy's meerkat then....? :-D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugly1 Posted August 3, 2013 #9 Share Posted August 3, 2013 How do they know that they are scared? Could it not be that they are sick from something that the zoo fed them or from maybe being imprisoned for their entire existence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Voodoo Posted August 3, 2013 #10 Share Posted August 3, 2013 This is wierd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapow53 Posted August 3, 2013 #11 Share Posted August 3, 2013 Hash can make you paranoid at times. Maybe it was something they ate or drank since they probably don't have any way to smoke stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthJunky73 Posted August 3, 2013 #12 Share Posted August 3, 2013 Maybe it`s a problem with their nuts, that would put me off my food too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equus hemionus Posted August 4, 2013 #13 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Was it the massive solar flare? Maybe their Pink Floyd player broke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugly1 Posted August 4, 2013 #14 Share Posted August 4, 2013 The government issues their imminent Al Qaeda attack warning based off of Baboon behavior. Americans are on a world wide travel warning based off of baboon behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKO Posted August 4, 2013 #15 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Sort of like a prison show. The guards walk into the cells and by the looks on everyone's faces something has happened. But no one will say a word. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis914 Posted August 4, 2013 #16 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Was there a kid named Damian that visited the park on that day? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava_Lady Posted August 4, 2013 #17 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Mob mentality, it just takes one little guy, the alpha, to freak and the rest will follow. Confucius say, "Monkey see, monkey do". The alpha probably fell off of his branch, felt embarrassed and covered it up by pretending to have been zapped by hostile ETs, Satan, Bigfoot, Swamp thing, demons, banshees and succubi (aka "The Axis of Evil") all at the same time. If they were human, they'd be in line at the gun shop. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjonalien Posted August 4, 2013 #18 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Because they can't tell people that aliens have abducted them too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnettil Posted August 5, 2013 #19 Share Posted August 5, 2013 best. comments. ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted August 5, 2013 #20 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Monkeys living in a Dutch zoo have been behaving strangely over the last week, sitting listlessly with their backs turned to visitors and even refusing food. Something may have spooked them, with theories including a scary T-shirt, a runaway snake or a UFO. Zookeepers in the Netherlands are scratching their heads at the strange behavior of an entire colony of 112 usually boisterous baboons which have sunken into a collective depression, sitting motionless, not fighting or grooming each other and not even eating apples, their favorite food. Traumatized and apathetic, they've also had their backs turned to zoo visitors, as if they're on strike. Read more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbondo Posted August 5, 2013 #21 Share Posted August 5, 2013 What is the first thing animals react to? Scent! Could it be that the zoo brought in a new animal that the Baboons caught wind of? If the zoo brought in a predatory animal, it could definitely send fear thru the clan, especially if the new animal was brought near enough so as to offer a strong scent. Many of them were raised in the zoo, but genetics and instinctual behaviour could play a role here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentraiser Posted August 6, 2013 #22 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Monkey see, monkey do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deslin Posted August 6, 2013 #23 Share Posted August 6, 2013 They're doing a quiet sitting protest against Futurama being canned again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibGeek Posted August 10, 2013 #24 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Animals do have much stronger instincts than humans when a threat is present. They must have sensed something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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