“I don’t see a chance of this poor cub surviving,' the photographer said of the event
Safari operator Kurt Schultz came across an unusual sight at South Africa’s Kruger National Park on Saturday — he spotted a large male baboon carrying a tiny lion cub on a tree.
But, what makes the occurrence even more surprising is that the baboon was grooming the cub as if it were one of its own babies, he explained to the“The baboon was grooming the lion cub as if it was a baby baboon,” Schultz told the AP. “Male baboons do a lot of grooming but the care given to this lion cub was the same care given by a female baboon to one of her own young.”
Schultz said he had never seen anything like it during his two-decade career, and he quickly took photographs of the rare display.RELATED: Columbus Zoo Lion Triplets Slay Their First Checkup The baboon was part of a larger troop that was in an area with granite hills and boulders where lions and leopards typically hide their cubs when they go hunting, he told the outlet, and this is how the cub was likely found.
When he initially spotted the baboons, they seemed “excited” and were likely fighting over the cub. He believes the cub may have been injured during the commotion.
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