A man who can leap into ice, Onwas must have figured, is certainly a man who'd have no trouble facing a wild baboon. So on the third night of my stay, he asks if I want to join the hunting trip.

On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town’s seaside village of Simon’s Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering ...

As the dry season set in we started to see something new. Blacktips pack began hunting baboons instead. It began slowly but picked up to the point where baboon became 50 per cent of their diet.