The 100 Baboons Known As ’The Pumphouse Gang’ | Our World

For six years Dr Shirley Strum lived sixty miles north of Nairobi deep in the Great African Rift Valley. Subscribe to Our World: Her neighbours were the Pumphouse Gang, an extraordinary troup of about 100 baboons. Dr Strum has spent over 6,000 hours with the troop and has come to understand baboon ’language’ and gestures as no one ever has before. This film was first broadcast: 03 Jul 1981 Watch More Documentaries Our Life - Our History - Our World - Our Stories - Explore Our World and watch some of the most successful nature documentary series about the environment and the wonders and dangers nature has to offer. We will be posting some of the longest-running and most successful nature documentary series, revealing the trials and tribulations of life on Earth and often for the first time, the secrets of the natural world in all its wonder.