South African baboon evicted after raiding homes
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A baboon, named Kataza by locals, eats from discarded waste from stores in Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Kataza was relocated from Kommetjie, on the edges of Cape Town (Nardus Engelbrecht/AP)
Kataza already had a lengthy rap sheet with Cape Town authorities so when he organised a band of others to raid a series of suburban homes, he was captured.
Now he sleeps at a prison, although there is a social media campaign for him to be returned to his old stomping ground.
Kataza is a baboon, one of a few hundred urban primates who live around Cape Town and are often a nuisance when they invade properties looking for food.
They knock over bins, steal fruit and vegetables from gardens, and generally cause trouble.
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Kataza sits outside the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, where he sleeps at night