See Baboons & Vervits At Lake Nakuru National Park

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Baboons and vervet monkeys are among the more intelligent of primates. Baboons are curious creatures: they posses a rudimentary intelligence which often leads people to think that they are being cheeky, and they certainly are mischievous animals. Baboons even once held sway in Egyptian mythology as a divine animal. The Egyptian god Baba was worshiped in pre-dynastic times in Egypt. vervet monkeys are equally cheeky and mischievous animals, found in large numbers in South Africa, where they are hunted as pests.

Visit Lake Nakuru in Kenya to see these most curious of intelligent creatures. See the baboons and vervets at Lake Nakuru National Park in their natural habitats; the vervets busy themselves in the trees and peer down at their new visitors with interested, mischievous faces, while the baboons laze about under the trees nonchalantly, apparently disinterested in your presence. vervets possess what many have referred to as the 'rudiments' of language; their alarm calls from high up in the trees depend on the different types of threats that they perceive, so depending on the predator, for example a leopard, snake or an eagle, vervets emit different alarm calls, allowing each member of the society to scamper away hurriedly or remain perched in the safety of the trees. Vervet monkeys inhabit savanna areas and mountains as high as 4000 meters in altitude. See the baboons and vervets at Lake Nakuru national Park and learn witness the vervets eating their natural diets: fruits, leaves, seeds, insects and even small rodents. Groups of vervets congregate in troops of 20 or more.

See the baboons and vervets at Lake Nakuru National Park to witness how primates behave in the wild. Baboons, shunned in current culture as ignorant animals, are exceptionally intelligent with a strong sense of society. baboons live in troops of up to 250, with a hierarchical structure, often centralized around which males have mating rights with females. Baboons in Kenya have been known to steal the Masai goats and for waiting for the Masai to dig in dry rivers for water, in order to snatch some for themselves. See the baboons and vervets at Lake Nakuru National Park, a park thriving with beauty; flocks of flamingos and hippos that calmly swim in the waters. The park is also a bird paradise, with over 400 species of bird, including Fish Eagles and Kingfishers that swoop on the surface of the waters, making spectacular photo-finish catches.