On a typical day at Goreangab Dam in Windhoek's Samora Machel, residents keep their doors locked to prevent baboons from entering their homes. For residents like Josefina Nakwatumba, baboons are no ...

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Authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, have released an updated baboon action plan aimed at reducing conflict between people and baboons, which regularly enter urban areas in search of food. The plan ...

Baboons are remarkable animals. While they often are written off as unintelligent violently aggressive creatures and bear the brunt of uninformed slurs, nothing could be further from the truth about ...

Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often share stories of baboons raiding a kitchen and stealing all the food. And stories appear in the media ...

A woman experienced an unexpected encounter while returning to her car in Cape Town Social media users expressed amusement and shared their reactions to the unusual scene Wildlife experts reminded ...