The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (CPBMJTT), consisting of representatives from SANParks, CapeNature, and the City of Cape Town, has announced that NCC Environmental Services will ...
About 500 chacma baboons—among the largest monkey species and weighing up to 40 kilos (88 pounds)—roam the peninsula south of Cape Town, says the South African National Biodiversity Institute.
Cape Town (AFP) – On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town’s seaside village of Simon’s Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering on roofs, jumping between buildings and ...
As human development of the Cape expands, so the baboons get “pushed higher and higher up the mountain” where foraging conditions are harder, O’Riain added. Therefore, naturally, people’s lush gardens ...