Today we give you the tails of two baboons from South Africa. First there's Jack, who, to the delight and astonishment of Cape Town, worked as a railroad signalman in the 1880s. Then we have Jackie, who not only fought WWI, but was also the only baboon by rank to do so. That's right, Corporal Jackie fought in the trenches in France and Egypt! 

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