Baboon Management Cape Town

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 30 November 2019. This month was another successful month for baboons, with time out of town for the troops averaging 99.9%. The Da Gama Troop was the only troop which did not achieve 100% time out of town. Despite this high percentage of time out of town, there were still 83 raid-related calls to the hotline. These were largely for individuals entering the urban environment (73 calls), particularly from Simonstown, Scarborough/Misty Cliffs and Tokai/Firgrove. Hotline calls related to bins raids were down from 11 calls in October 2019, to only two calls in November 2019.