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Seeking Uncle

A woman in southern New Jersey reported an unusual visitor to her back porch: a baboon. And she wasn’t the only one near Six Flags Great Adventure to meet such an evolutionary cousin: there was a sighting on a golf course, and another near a highway, so the beast is suspected to be one of the 150 kept at the park’s Monkey Jungle. No evidence of an escape has been found, said spokeswoman Kristen Siebeneicher, and the baboons, which sleep outside, are not counted every day. “We can’t say for sure where the baboon came from,” Siebeneicher said, “but we are probably certain that it is ours.” After the 2-year-old baboon was caught, “We’re essentially claiming her,” Siebeneicher said, even though, being only two, the captive did not have the identity chip the park normally implants in its baboons. (AC/AP, Newark Star-Ledger) ...I can’t say for sure, but it’s probably certain the baboon knows. Essentially.