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 swinging on the gutters.
Birds of prey, meanwhile, line up in trees on nearby cliffs and pick off the drinking doves. Finding one of the victims on the ground close to the seep, and guessing it would be welcome booty for the ...
Baboon Watch monitors are employed to keep the Constantia 2 (CT2) chacma baboon troop in the wilder parts of the area, since the City of Cape Town withdrew rangers from this troop in April 2022.
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.