Jack The Baboon - The Baboon Who Gained Fame for Working in Railroad and Never Made a Mistake

Destiny is the most brilliant scriptwriter who writes such stories that are hard to believe. The world has given us some amazing stories in the past history that are one hundred percent true but they are so weird that it's not easy to believe them, such as "Mike the Headless Chicken", "Pep - The Dog" and "The Real-Life Mowgli". Today again we are going to make you aware of such a strange story, which you will surely be a little shocked to hear.

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In the 1880s, there was a man named James Edwin Wide, who worked as a signalman for Cape Town–Port Elizabeth Railway services. James Wide was handicapped by one leg due to which he had to face a lot of difficulties in doing his daily chores. He had a pet monkey of the baboon species of the Old World monkey family, named "Jack". One day James Wide met with a serious accident and lost his second leg too. After this, James's daily commute from home to the station became a very bad experience. Seeing all this happen, James started training his monkey "Jack" and soon Jack started helping him in his daily routine tasks, such as putting James in a small trolley, pushing the trolley to the station and then back to home, sweeping the floor and cleaning up the dirt in the house. Gradually, James trained him so much that he also started to do station work under his supervision and took care of the signaling of this railway station for the next nine consecutive years. A concerned member of the public told the railway authority that a baboon was seen changing railway signals. After that, an official investigation was initiated by the railway department.

After initial skepticism, the Railway Services Company officially hired "Jack the Baboon" and his salary was fixed at twenty cents per day and also half a bottle of beer each week. During his nine-year job period, this baboon named Jack made no mistake even once and always did his work at the right time. This could be proof that perfectionism can be more than just a human condition. Finally, Jack died of tuberculosis in 1890, nine years after his amazing duty.