Baboons and Your Property
Most of the negative feelings towards baboons are generated by baboons entering our properties. There are very obvious reasons why baboons overlap with our living space (see our interactive diagram explaining the causes of baboon commensalism). Given this state of affairs, what can we do to minimize it?
Remove Baboon Attractants
There are a few simple things we can do to reduce the attractiveness of our properties to baboons. These strategies involve removing (or rendering inaccessible) the things that attract baboons to our properties in the first place, e.g.:
- food
- water
- garbage
If we simply remove access to these attractants, baboons will be far less likely to enter our properties.
Use Baboon Deterrents
In addition to reducing the factors that attract baboons, people have also devised and employed various strategies to deter baboons from their properties. Some of these have worked well and others are misguided and/or have failed completely. Here we present an assessment of the pros, cons, and general effectiveness of some strategies that we know about and can assess at the present time.
