We ALL know the Iconic scene from the Lion King when Rafiki takes Simba and holds him up at Pride Rock!
Well a photographer just snapped a photo of a Baboon carrying a cub...JUST LIKE THE MOVIE!
The photographer said The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it were its own, said safari operator Kurt Schultz, who in 20 years had never seen such behavior. “The baboon was grooming the lion cub as if it was a baby baboon,”
But this is not like the movie - the photographer said
“I don’t see a chance of this poor cub surviving. The troop of baboons was large and a lion would not be able to get the young back,” Schultz said. “Nature is cruel at most times and the survival of a young predator cub is not easy. The lion cub would pose a threat to the baboons when it gets older. I have witnessed baboons viciously killing leopard cubs and have heard of baboons killing lion cubs.”