Extracted branches of thornbushes in Gwoza are often at places spread across beds of low crops and legumes such as groundnuts, beans, bambara nuts, aya (as called in Hausa) and so on, to keep-and-prick off the monkeys and baboons, which the presenter researcher was told are in good supply, from ravaging them when they are ripe before harvest.40 On the other hand, it does not seem wrong to assert t