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This is how a baboon worked at a train station for nine years – mistake-free!
Jack the Baboon worked as an assistant to double-amputee railroad signalman James Wide in South Africa, starting in 1881.
After Wide lost his legs, his ability to do his job was in jeopardy. But while at a South African market, he saw something amazing: A baboon driving an oxcart. He was so impressed that he bought the baboon on the spot, named him Jack, and gave him an education in the signalman trade.
Jack would push around Wideβs wheelchair and even operate railway signals under his supervision, much to the amazement of passing train passengers.
He was paid twenty cents a day, and half a bottle of beer each week, working for nine years with reportedly zero mistakes, before sadly dying of tuberculosis in 1890.
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