Tag: Railway Operations in the 1880s
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A Baboon Was Employed by a South African Railway in the 1880s
In the annals of unusual animal tales, the story of Jack the baboon stands out as a remarkable example of a creature performing tasks typically reserved for humans. This true story from the 1880s in South Africa involves a railway employee named James Wide and his unlikely assistant, a baboon named Jack. Wide, who had…