# What do they know?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-know/665216>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 3, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-know/665216 "2013-08-03T02:16:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-know/665216/1 "2013-08-03T02:16:13Z")

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I could see this making a great scene in a ghost or alien invasion flick:

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> A zoo in the Netherlands is trying to understand what has spooked a group of baboons, with the monkeys huddled together and hardly eating.
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> The troop of baboons has become inexplicably withdrawn, apparently fearful of an unseen threat.
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> The 112 east African monkeys started behaving strangely on Monday and even turned their backs on visitors at Emmen Zoo in the northern Netherlands.

[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-03/traumatised-baboon-mystery-at-dutch-zoo/4862984](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-03/traumatised-baboon-mystery-at-dutch-zoo/4862984)

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-know/665216/2 "2013-08-03T02:58:30Z")

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Perhaps they know who the next Doctor is…