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What can be done about these "furry felons"? Would you feed them?

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quesera | 2 years, 5 months ago
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Baboons can be very dangerous. I'm sure tourists love to see them, but like bears in North America, if you feed them or allow them to access human food, they will start seeing humans as a source of food and may become aggressive if people don't get out of their way. Human food is generally also bad for digestion in wild animals. It can drastically reduce their life span or even quickly poison them, if they get the wrong thing. In many areas, animals that get acquainted with humans have a death sentence, because they get aggressive, are labeled "problem" animals, and are killed.

As people, I think we have a moral obligation to leave nature alone (yes, we are part of nature, but we intrude and alter in ways other animals do not). We could potentially change the entire food change of an ecosystem by being too invasive.

Personally, the last thing I would want is to see a hungry baboon coming at my car! There should be strong warnings issues, fines for anyone who feeds them, and if possible, a program to scare the baboons away from people. For example, they sometimes use dogs to scare cougars out of certain areas. When the cats come to think of human-smelling areas as areas with dogs and loud noises (they often fire guns into the air), they tend to associate humans with fear and stay away.

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pellrider2 | 2 years, 5 months ago
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People should stop feeding them. also, the government and volunteer groups should try to grow more fruit trees in the area. Once humans start feeding them, they will learn to get food easily. Then they will start attacking.
They are wild animals. We should not give them food. Giving food will change their habits. That is what is happening there.

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