Chacma baboon teasing a Black man with his own food in South Africa. According to German naturalist Peter Kolbe, the ursine baboon, Papio ursinus, steals food from humans and sits eating it, sometimes offering it to him. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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