I saw the greatest article... It was years ago and I've been unsuccessful searching for an archived copy, but basically there was a really severe drought in part of Africa (Somalia? Kenya? somewhere east) and the government was sending tanker trucks of water to remote villages. The local residents would fill whatever bottles and jugs and pots they could find to carry water home. Obviously there'd be a little spillage, or maybe they were even filling troughs for the livestock. At any rate, the local wildlife started to figure out that the arrival of the tanker truck meant there might be some water around. Most notably, the local baboon troop figured out that water came from the spigot at the end of the tanker truck. So one day, the truck arrives and this mob of baboons rushes out of the bush and chases off all the people. You may think that unlikely, but at fifty pounds, with three-inch fangs and a hefty dose of testosterone, a prime male baboon is pretty well impervious to anything an unarmed villager can do to him. The humans couldn't get anywhere near the truck until all the baboons had taken their fill and left.
I just thought that was a really fantastic example of humans being shown their rightful place in the food chain. 🙂
(In the course of looking for a copy of that article, I came across many references to "road pirate" baboon troops in Somalia, where drought is ongoing, holding up trucks loaded with fruit going from the ports to inland markets. It's illegal to kill the baboons and the truck drivers aren't willing to risk their lives defending their bosses' cargo, so the baboons basically get whatever they want.)
