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 31 October 2019. Summer has arrived, with higher temperatures and the increased availability of plenty of fresh forage for the baboons. The extra forage at this time of year, tends to result in the baboons spending more time in the mountains and pushing less to raid in the urban environment. This trend is confirmed during this month, with the troops spending 99.9% time out of town, while individuals time out of town was 95.9%. Further to this, there was a significant decrease (30%) in raid-related hotline calls for this month, compared to September 2019. The percentage of raid-related calls for occupied house raids was also down to 7%, from 14% last month.