WILD LIFERS: Flowers on the fence as protesters mourn capture of Simon’s Town’s baboons

Behind a guarded Navy perimeter, monitors lured Simon’s Town baboons into baited cages. By the end of the weekend, 44 from the Waterfall troop had been captured for life behind an electric fence. On Sunday, more than 100 people gathered outside the enclosure, where flowers hung from the wire. Asked why she had come, one protester said, “I’m here to grieve.”

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