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What happens when bigger animals come into our cities? Are they welcome, or are they considered a danger or a pest?

Often wild animals come into cities to look for food. In Cape Town, South Africa, baboons have started coming into (RESIDENT) areas on the edge of the city to feed.

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They open rubbish bins and eat fruit from gardens and orchards. Some brave baboons have even come into people’s houses and taken food from kitchen cupboards and fridges!

Baboons can be aggressive and have attacked a lot of pet animals, so many city residents don’t welcome their (PRESENT).

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Lots of people really dislike baboons. This is very (UNDERSTAND) because of all the damage and danger they pose.

The city can be a (DANGER) place for baboons too.

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Some have been (INJURY) or killed in car accidents and others have been electrocuted as they played with electric cables.

Baboons are an (ENDANGER) species

To save them and (MINIMAL) conflicts between humans and baboons, the city council has employed a team of Baboon Monitors. The monitors’ job is to chase baboons out of urban areas or catch them and release them in the countryside.

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This policy has been quite (SUCCESS), though it is proving hard to stop baboons from coming back to the city once they see it as a source of easy food.

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