Several centuries ago, the Namai people living in South Africa used especially intelligent pavians as shepherds of goats. They treated the work very responsibly, did not let the animals get away from the herd and warned about the danger in a timely manner, seeing predators. Sometimes the Pavian picked the largest goat and ran on it. This practice was also adopted by some European farmers who settled on these lands – the last case described in the press of the female pavian named Ala working on a farm in Namibia dates back to 1961.