‘Plot Twist: The Safari Came to Me’— Baboon Tries to Break in

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When in Africa . . . a baboon (or two) might try to break in to your place. At least that was true for a woman named Raquel, who posted two videos on TikTok of two separate baboons attempting to open a locked sliding-glass door while she was on vacation in Tanzania. Both videos got a ton of views, but the second video went viral with nearly 13 million plays.

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“Baboon #1: ‘I couldn’t do it.’ Baboon #2: ‘Hold my banana,’” wrote Raquel in her viral TikTok video’s caption. “Bro from video 1 called for back up.”

The TikTok community notes how hard the baboon tries to get in. It pulls and pulls on the door handle, then tries to slide the door open from the bottom.

“That door was shaking too hard for meee,” wrote one person in the comments section.

“Do [y’all] owe him money or something cause [the] way he was shaking that door,” wrote another.

Watch a baboon try to break in to Raquel’s place here:

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And here’s part one of her series: