Baboon Management

Publicly available monthly reports are produced about the baboon management project. These contain raiding activity and out of town records of the Cape Peninsula baboons, as well as a breakdown of hotline calls for the month, and updated monthly population figures of each troop. In addition to this, monthly, seasonal and daily trends of baboon behaviour are reported on.

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This monthly report covers the period from 1 to 31 March 2019. Although this period represents the end of summer, when both food and water conditions may be limiting, the troops still spent an average of 99.9% of their time out of town. Unfortunately, however, the average time individuals spent in town increased by nearly two percent, with them spending an average of only 92.6% of their time out of town. This raiding trend by individuals occurred in almost every troop except the two Constantia Troops and the Mountain Troop, where raids on the farms are not considered urban raiding.This month there was also a general increase in assertive raids by individuals, with 24 raids on houses or baboons stealing directly from people being reported on the hotline. This is almost double the number reported last month.