Then she picked him up in her mouth and nestled up to him in a protective manner:
The baby baboon even nuzzled up to her:
Even when the male lions approached, the lioness quickly frightened them off:
That’s when the baby baboon’s dad — who was watching the whole thing — took his opportunity and dashed in, snatching the baby baboon up and away into a nearby tree:
The baboons stayed up in that tree until the pride of lions had left. Nature — so surprising, so awesome:
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