Cape baboon / Chacma baboon

Description:

Chacma baboon spotted at the visitor centre at Cape Point Nature Rerserve terrorizing the tourists. One of the sad spin-offs when people start to feed wild animals because they think it is "cute". These cuties kill leopards when they gang up against their arch enemy.

Habitat:

The chacma baboon inhabits a wide array of habitats including woodland, savanna, steppes, and subdesert, from the grassy alpine slopes of the Drakensberg to the Kalahari desert. During the night the chacma baboon needs hills, cliffs, or large trees in which to sleep. During the day water availability may limit its range in arid areas. It is found in southern Africa, ranging from South Africa north to Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique. The subspecies are divided across this range. The Cape chacma is found in southern South Africa; the gray-footed chacma, is present from northern South Africa, through the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique (south of the Zambezi), to southwest Zambia; and the Ruacana chacma is found in northern Namibia and southern Angola. (From Wikipedia)