Meet the baboon who officially operated railway signals for nine years and never made a single mistake [Video]

In the late 1800s, a man named James Wide worked as a railway signalman for Cape Town’s Port Elizabeth Railway Station. He was known fondly as “Jumper” because he had the habit of jumping between railcars even when the trains were moving. One day he took an inaccurate jump, which cuased him to fall beneath a moving train. Although he survived the accident, both of his legs were completely crushed. He needed to hire someone to assist him in his job. So, he hired an assistant who was anything but an ordinary employee. He was a baboon.

Jack the Chacma baboon served the railways under Wide in South Africa for nine years. And on top of that, he never made a single …