[imagesource: Twitter / Yusuf Abramjee]

The baboons of the Cape have been watching us humans and taking notes.

As a result, they know exactly where the good stuff is and they know precisely how to get it.

A video is gathering all the FML-laugh-cry-emojis on Twitter as it shows a baboon leading its family to a car and opening the door like that’s the animal’s business.

Per The Citizen, anti-crime activist Yusuf Abramjee posted the video initially, joking that crime is really getting out of hand in South Africa.

The baboons are simply joining in:

Crime is out of control 😂 pic.twitter.com/nMLVPEJPDs

— Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) June 20, 2022

It’s the “my bliksem” shock and horror from the video-taker for me.

It is not clear where the “attempted robbery” was filmed or how old the video is, but one still from the video appears to show the words ‘Gossip Corner’. There is a restaurant in Rooi-Els with the same name and their website landing page features a picture of baboons.

It doesn’t help that baboons will be left to their own devices at some point, with talks in the works that the City of Cape Town will be terminating the baboon management programme in the southern suburbs by July 2023.

Kay Montgomery, the City’s public relations official for said programme, was pretty frank in saying that “the old thinking of shooting them and getting rid of them, and making them go out of the suburb hasn’t worked – we must accept that and move into a new era”.

Looks like we are indeed entering that new era.

[source:citizen]