{"id":21186,"date":"2025-08-25T00:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:52:13","slug":"wild-video-shows-baboons-hiding-from-lions-in-unlikely-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21186\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Video Shows Baboons Hiding From Lions in Unlikely Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what some are calling \u201cnature\u2019s game of hide and seek,\u201d baboons cleverly evade lions by hiding right under their noses in a wild video from South Africa. The footage shows lions lounging on some sort of bridge in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/malamalagamereserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">MalaMala Game Reserve<\/a> as baboons climb around the bottom of the structure, just out of sight\u2014and certainly out of reach. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shannon__wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Shannon Wild<\/a>, a wildlife photographer and videographer, captured the interaction between the monkeys and the ecosystem\u2019s top predators and shared it on Instagram. Her footage attracted over 570,000 views.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-lion-climbs-on-tourists-vehicle-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH: Lion Climbs on Tourist\u2019s Vehicle in South Africa<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people in the comments section note that the primates are clever. The lions may have dibs on the best spot on the bridge, but the baboons have managed to also use the space without putting themselves in harm\u2019s way. Several folks comment that the lions must be confused being able to smell the monkeys but not see them. It\u2019s likely the lions fully know the baboons are there; they just couldn\u2019t get to them even if they wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>Watch an interesting interaction between baboons and lions caught on video here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Header stock image by Ander Bilbao Castejon\/Getty Images<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what some are calling \u201cnature\u2019s game of hide and seek,\u201d baboons cleverly evade lions by hiding right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[4204,18,19,17,13049,133,461,18179],"class_list":{"0":"post-21186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lion","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife","15":"tag-wildlife-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}