Out of earshot nearby, lions will be grunting, baboons barking and elephants busy demolishing a tree.
Baboons and chimpanzees both belong to which of these groups: apes, monkeys, or primates?
Volunteers live in dormitories or permanent safari tents, and spend their sunny days clearing bush, cleaning out cheetah enclosures and even babysitting baby baboons.
The first of the three parks we visited was Lake Manyara National Park, a lush nature reserve teeming with all kinds of animals, including giraffes, elephants, exotic birds and baboons.
The scent of wild mint hangs in the air as we pass dusky ravines where baboons swing from the fig trees, swerving past brilliant white bones stripped of flesh by vultures.
At the southernmost point of the Cape Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve is home to Chacma baboons, ponderous, large antelopes called elands, ostriches, rare tortoises, bonteboks and zebras.
On day three, a troop of baboons go about their daily grooming and tick-picking tasks with nonchalance, ignoring both the camera-toting hikers and the dollops of yellow foam blowing off the angry sea.
Most of those interested in xenotransplantation are considering pigs, rather than baboons or chimpanzees, because pigs are easier and cheaper to rear, and because harvesting pigs for organs is thought to pose fewer ethical difficulties.
Once inside the southern Tanzania park, the highway cannot be seen or heard, but it makes Mikumi one of the most accessible places in Tanzania to see lions, buffalo, hippopotamus, gazelles, elands, warthogs and yellow baboons (not to mention more than 400 species of birds).
The judge had to personally enlist the assistance of a group of schoolboys, members of a local mountain climbing club, to accompany him to a deeply wooded valley and descend into a ravine infested with black snakes and populated by lion, leopard, baboons and elephants.
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