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"The purple-assed Tripoli baboons had been brought to the island by pirates in the 17th century. There was a legend that when the baboons left the island it would fall. To whom or in what way was not specified, and it is a capital offense to kill a baboon, though the noxious behaviour of these animals harries the citizens almost beyond endurance. Occasionally someone goes berzerk, kills several baboons and himself."
Annons