Cape baboons shot and maimed in war of attrition with human neighbors

AP Worldstream | June 20, 2005| | Copyright

CLARE NULLIS, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-20-2005
Dateline: KOMMETJE, South Africa
Georgie was hit over the head and is missing part of his ear. Penny's right hand was mangled in a trap. Tammy's bullet-riddled leg was amputated. Golden Arrow was shot dead, leaving her infant to starve to death.

The baboons of South Africa's Cape Peninsula are caught in a war of attrition with their human neighbors, who are sick of having their kitchens ransacked by marauding apes with an uncanny knack for breaking into houses.

"People love them or hate them. Very few people are ambivalent," says ...

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