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. Enchanted ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A baboon, named Kataza by locals, eats from discarded waste from stores in Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 17, ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (WTHR) – A Ring home security camera captured the moment a baboon was attempting to break in to a home in near Cape Town, South Aftrica. A Chacma Baboon, or commonly known as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Joselyn Mormile is a conservation scientist who has been working with baboons and communities in South Africa for more than 15 years. Her work has included sanctuary care and veterinary medicine, ...

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A notorious baboon named Fred known for burglarizing parked cars and mugging tourists at a scenic Cape Town lookout was captured and will be euthanized, South African ...