In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 baboons surround a truck carrying maize meal at the border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Saturday Feb. 11, 2012 a baboon torments a child while in search of food at the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 a baboon atop a truck carrying maize meal attempts to get through the covering canvas, at the border between Zimbabweand Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 a baboon checks a cooking pot for food as children look on at the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 a baboon, atop a tree, peers through leaves, in the border town of Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 a child chases away baboons by throwing a stick at them at the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 baboons gather around a truck carrying maize meal, as one of them eyes a man carrying fresh produce on his head, at the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 baboons surround a truck carrying maize meal at the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 a baboon climbs a church building at the border town between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 baboons attempt to gain entry to a vehicle at the border betweenZimbabwe and Zambia in Chirundu, Zimbabwe. Troops of bag-snatching, truck looting baboons are causing chaos at the border post in daily raids for food. They are also known to bite or slap people in their faces when they try to defend their property and often make off with ladies handbags and destroy cars in their search for food. Authorities say that due their large numbers it is very hard to control them as they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters.
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