Theatre offers an unlikely space for Cape Peninsula communities to connect and deal with the problem of living with baboons
The SPCA says it is having difficulty tracking down a baboon in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, which has been on the loose for about a week.
About 95% of baboons have been kept out Cape Town since August, says a city councillor.
Baboons in Cape Town are being paintballed to drive them out of residential suburbs and stop them from pillaging homes and cars on brazen food raids.
Pringle Bay residents in the Western Cape are outraged at a National Geographic documentary that used food to lure baboons to a house in the area.
Troops of bag-snatching, truck-looting baboons are causing chaos at a border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia in daily raids for food.
A baboon named Fred — known for burgling parked cars and mugging tourists at a scenic Cape Town look-out — has been captured and will be euthanised.
Fred, a well-built house burglar and mugger, ambles down the row of parked cars at a scenic Cape Town look-out before finding an unlocked door.
Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of baboons in the Cape are finding the vineyards of succulent grapes to be an "absolute bonanza".
Visitors to Cape Town who are worried about becoming victims of the high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by baboons.
A shrewd troop of baboons caused havoc along South Africa’s Cape peninsula over the weekend when they hijacked motorists’ cars to get at picnic food.
