Baboon

A warm, hilarious entertainer who made joy contagious.

Grinning through a cigarette haze at the Harlem piano keys, rolling his eyes at a ridiculous song he'd been forced to record, or hollering "one never knows, do one?" at a bewildered audience — Fats Waller lived every public moment as a performance of sheer communal delight. The baboon is the Animal In You system's great social entertainer: loud, expressive, physically animated, and utterly magnetic, turning any gathering into a celebration through sheer force of personality rather than carefully cultivated mystique. Waller's legendary mugging, his habit of transforming even throwaway novelty tunes like "Your Feet's Too Big" into hilarious theatrical events, and his bottomless generosity with laughter mirror the baboon's core drive — not just to entertain, but to pull every creature in the troop into the warmth of collective joy.