‘That’s a shedding fight’: baboon attacks create strained human-wildlife standoff in Cape Community

Pet legal rights lobbyists disagree with authorities on how best to deal with boom in primate population near Table Mountain

Beside Da Gama Park, where the Cape Town suburb fulfills the mountain, baboons jumped from the road to yard walls to roofing systems and back again. Kids from South African navy families residing in the area’s moderate residences played in the street. Some were thrilled; some wary; most were unfazed by the animals.A couple of miles

away, overlooking a skyrocketing optimal and sweeping bay, Nicola de Chaud showed photos of food scattered throughout her kitchen area by a baboon. In one more incident, a baboon tossed one of her canines throughout the outdoor patio. In January, a male baboon aggressed her and declined to leave your house for 10 mins.

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Source: The Guardian

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