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presentation about the usefulness of these ani- 
mals, but I do take issue with him on one point 
— his concern about the inherent danger in 
working with male baboons. We began to work 
with them in the mid-fifties, not knowing a 
thing about them, and had to develop handling 
techniques. In the set-up we had in Africa, we 
had separated fighting males and pushed them 
back into chicken wire cages. We had trouble 
only in one instance when an attendant de- 
liberately teased one of the animals and was 
bitten. But working with several thousand of 
them, we never had an accident. I would much 
rather work with one of these animals than a 
stallion, a dairy bull, or even a 200 pound boar, 
which we consider really dangerous. 
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