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An image purportedly showing a newspaper clipping featuring a story about a gay baboon raping several men near an African village regularly gets shared on social media: This is not a genuine news story, but a verbatim copy of a satirical article that was first published in April 2017 on the South Africa Morning Post web site: A cached version of the page shows that this article was filed under the satire tag. Furthermore, the description on the web site's Facebook page states that the South Africa Morning Post publishes Satire, Entertainment, Rumours and Bizarre stories from South Africa, and sometimes around the world. The person behind the Morning Post also mentioned the gay baboon article in an interview with the Mail & Guardian Africa. The unidentified writer used the homophobic text as an example of the fake news stories he publishes in order to fund his purportedly genuine journalistic efforts: It is still unclear whether this fake news story was ever picked up by a genuine newspaper. The text at the bottom of the story states that it was printed by Hassan Mohiuddin at City Press, Talpur Road, Kara(...) which appears to refer to a newspaper located on Talpur Road in Karachi, Pakistan. However, we could not locate a publisher or publication called City Press in Pakistan or an editor named Hassan Mohiuddin. Finally, we feel it is our responsibility to clear the pictured baboon's name. Although we are unsure who took the photograph, the earliest iteration we could find was posted to the web site Iloho.com by oliviam in August 2009 and shows a baboon relaxing in — not terrorizing — Cape Point, South Africa. The photograph was entitled Baboon Beauty Queen:
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