Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead, I turned and was shocked to see Split Lip, the alpha male baboon from the troop that was frequenting Misty Cliffs, a ...

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In a controversy that has ignited debate over wildlife management and public participation, the City of Cape Town’s plan to capture and confine two troops of wild Cape Peninsula baboons has drawn ...

Baboons on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula are attracted to residential areas by the ready availability of food waste and fruit trees. The extirpation of the primates’ natural predators and steady ...

Baboons seeking snacks are breaking into tourists' cars in South Africa, and authorities have threatened to fine visitors who give them food and encourage their aggressive pursuit of bananas and ...

Juvenile baboons frolick on a parked car in Da Gama Park. Opinions vary on how best to manage the growing population. Photograph: Tommy Trenchard/The Guardian Animal rights activists disagree with ...

The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (CPBMJTT) have formally adopted a detailed action plan to implement the Cape Peninsula Baboon Strategic Management Plan, outlining how baboon ...

In my book Beast or Blessing I examined the history of baboons and established that baboons have been around for many thousands of years, and certainly living on the Cape Peninsula before the arrival ...

Correction: In an earlier version of this article, it was stated that the facility must then become self-sustaining through tourist entry fees, with revenue going to the landowner." This is incorrect ...