I’ve dealt with a lot of baboons in orchards before. They’re not great in that context: eating fruit damaging fences and waterlines, injuring trees. But I’d never seen them in a field of barley before.
This was on the way back from a wander around the area, with some superb views over the Breede Valley.
We christened the baboons “Barley Sharks”, with their dark shapes swimming through the field, occasionally popping a head up to check they were safe from any predators. The barley had been left – probably because the floods here earlier in the year at damaged the yield to the point where it wasn’t worth harvesting.
But the barley sharks were enjoying what was left as a free, easy snack.