Baboons know our names

Baboons know our names

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>The name of a Bushman seems to be known to a Baboon, even when the latter beholds him for the first time. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-24. 5927-5929). </i>When a baboon sees a person it calls his or her name even if has never seen the person before. It tells the name to the others as the person passes by.

1) p.5926v: Dia!kwain heard this story from his father (Xaa-ttin), 2) See also <i>Baboons speak Bushman, and have wives</i> and <i>Baboons try to shoot people - means of preventing it</i>, 3) This story is found in Book V-24

story

2 February 1876

Custom and daily life

Plants and animals

baboon (knows our names), baboon (knows things), baboon (what it does when it sees a person), baboon (tells others about the person passing by), baboon (passing it on the hunting-ground), baboon (its nature and habits), baboon (calls a person's name), name (baboons know and call a person's), name (baboons know our names)

5927-5929