In the street battle for supremacy between man and baboon, it can only be said that both sides are using guerrilla tactics.

For the baboons it means swarming SAS style up the sheer sides of blocks of flats, prising open windows and plundering anything that is inside. Usually they just want food, but sometimes a flapping set of net curtains or a child’s cuddly toy bear can provide some added entertainment.

For the humans, the weapons of choice – given that their enemy is a protected species – tend to be paintball guns and pepper sprays. They have the momentary effect of driving the baboons away, but hunger and sheer nerve always bring them back.





To survive, they trawl through waste bins, loiter at rubbish dumps, steal from shops and markets and prowl around the picnic sites. Some are such practised scavengers that they know exactly when the rubbish carts will be arriving with fresh supplies at the dump.



While some people don’t give a monkey’s about their vagrant neighbours even leaving out food for them, others go ape just at the thought of them.

In the suburb of Scarborough, a woman screams at the pair of baboons sitting casually on the roof of her house munching hunks of pilfered brown bread.

‘No-one understands what is happening here! This is the complete nightmare’, she yells, explaining that a baboon recently snatched shopping from her daughter’s hands. ‘She is completely traumatised,’ she adds. ‘It is not even safe to leave the house. And no-one does anything about it.’

A neighbour hurls a futile stick at them – but they carry on munching. ‘I hate them,’ he says.
Not far away in Main Street, employees at a safari company have just discovered what happens if you go away for the week-end and leave a window open.

A group of baboons led by a male called Moby has left a trail of destruction in the staff kitchen. First target was the fridge where every packet has been opened, investigated and eaten. The menu runs to bread, pasta, cheese, peppers, eggs, carrots, tuna and corn.



‘We are sitting on a time bomb. Something has got to happen,’ he says. ‘In the Spring they eat the young shoots, in summer the grapes. If the nature conservation authority would allow it, we would shoot them all. Every one of them.’

But many people admire the ingenuity of the baboons and are prepared to rub along with customers who never pay for anything. At a small supermarket between the settlements of Welcome Glen and Da Gama Park, a baboon called Quandi calls in once or twice a week. ‘He goes directly to the fruit stand and takes a few kilos of bananas,’ says the manageress. ‘Then he runs past the check out to the shelves with the crisps. He seems to prefer cheese and onion.’

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what are thez waiting for, their meat taste like bush meat. Look at meat wasting there and these people are shying away

drnoel:

what are thez waiting for, their meat taste like bush meat. Look at meat wasting there and these people are shying away

It is not everybody that is so desperate for meat to the point of eating baboons.Those that crave for meat like that are the incapable that can't domesticate mere chickens,sheep,cows or goats in abundance.

It remind me of Rise of planet of Ape

sammy329: It remind me of Rise of planet of Ape

I knew it wouldn't take long for the Ape Revolution to begin after they watched their brothers in that movie.

After I watched that movie with my Monkey, I told him to go back to his cage, and he shouted, [size=14pt]NO![/size]

Please do NOT panic, residents of Cape Town. Your beautiful city will NOT be re-named Ape Town, regardless of what mischief those baboons perpetrate.

Investigations are ongoing. We have a number of suspects in custody already. We have PARADED them before the press. They are making useful statements as we beat the crap out of them. You can see from their faces that they are up to no good, and that they know the Fat Lady is about to sing for them, but I appeal for calm. Plese go about your normal business.

Once again, I can assure you that under my watch, Cape Town will NOT become Ape Town.

Yoshi-Master:


I knew it wouldn't take long for the Ape Revolution to begin after they watched their brothers in that movie.

After I watched that movie with my Monkey, I told him to go back to his cage, and he shouted, [size=14pt]NO![/size]

NO NO, Hell NO. I ain't goin' in no cage. Yeah, you heard me right, that chit is OVER. YOU get in the muffugin cage.

Ha ha ha ha. The revolution has begun. Just don't SPANK the monkey ha ha ha. That will never solve the problem.

drnoel:

what are thez waiting for, their meat taste like bush meat. Look at meat wasting there and these people are shying away

And wonder why this boy had to quote the whole thread just to pass his weightless point across.

A group of baboons led by a male called Moby
has left a trail of destruction in the staff
kitchen. First target was the fridge where
every packet has been opened, investigated
and eaten. The menu runs to bread, pasta,
cheese, peppers, eggs, carrots, tuna and corn.

Now the quoted above got me cracked up.

Cain't NOBODY phuck with MOBY. He da man. He be opening, investigatin' and eatin', and there ain't nothin y'all can do about it.

Go 'head on Moby, with yo bad self. I pity the fool who try to stop you, cause you's a baaaaad muffugh. And that ain't no lie.

some animals know where to try this. In Nigeria where angels fear to tread, a new dish would have emerged to make these wild animals extinct. Its cute until they turn deadly. What country is this?

Jakumo: Cain't NOBODY phuck with MOBY. He da man. He be opening, investigatin' and eatin', and there ain't nothin y'all can do about it.

Go 'head on Moby, with yo bad self. I pity the fool who try to stop you, cause you's a baaaaad muffugh. And that ain't no lie.

Jakumo, you no go use laf kee person hia.

Smh

Shebi dem dey pursue nigerians, bamboo will takeover. If they can't live with human, they will live with monkeys

baby_123: some animals know where to try this. In Nigeria where angels fear to tread, a new dish would have emerged to make these wild animals extinct. Its cute until they turn deadly. What country is this?

Lol, South Africa

better in real life than dream o

See obasanjos cousins

They will soon be soaked in blood.

Ok

They were there before the humans came and destroyed their habitats, now they're back to take over what rightly belongs to them. Let the humans learn to co-exist with them, as simple as that!

Omo see gobe...this na serious matter

Someone should shoot em. Which one be say they are protected?

Who let dem out laughing

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drnoel:
what are thez waiting for, their meat taste like bush meat. Look at meat wasting there and these people are shying away

Which part of the zoo were u brought out from how u be thinking of eating baboon of our animals...are u dat hungry...gosh some people can never be civilised

Cape Town can hire the services of Nigeria's Gov. Fashola; he can help deport the baboons to perhaps Mozambique

I need to move to that cape town for real, and show them how it is done here. I go do them like bush rat!

surely, this must be a joke.......baboons are fighting for the rights of nigerians that were discriminated against in cape town!

*obasanjo's voice* I dey laugh

Just imagining some1 having sex in der estate and d baboons just jump in

U GO FEAR NINJA WARRIORS!