and here you can read about the slaughter that inspied it
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/eating_out/a_a_gill/article6882183.eceAA Gill, a restaurant critic, wrote in The Sunday Times, 25 Oct 2009:
"I shot a baboon in Africa, last Wednesday, just after lunch. Shot it dead....
So I’m in Africa, in a hat, with dark intentions and a truck full of guns and other blokes in hats. Josh the hunter said: “Why don’t we shoot a baboon?”...
So, I said, why not? Just a little one. I can handle it; I’ll be a recreational primate killer.... I took him just below the armpit. He slumped and slid sideways. I’m told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life. They die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out. We paced the ground. The air was filled with a furious keening of his tribe. Two hundred and fifty yards. Not a bad shot....
Showing off your expressive and judgmental eating skills is far harder than blowing away a monkey....
Some frogs, a pig, a chicken, a cow and a baboon all died in the writing of this column"