Baily told
The Citizen on Monday the baboon will be released to the wild to join the other baboons “in a few days”.
“[Jeffrey] will be released up on the mountain where other wild baboons live and he can integrate into one of those troops once he has acclimatised to the new surroundings,” she said.
The baboon was reportedly first spotted moving from the Quellerina area in Roodepoort towards Roosevelt Park in Randburg.
Then from there, spotters followed his movements into the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens in Emmarentia, and then into Parktown.
Jeffrey, the Baboon that has been in Johannesburg suburbs for the past few weeks, was successfully and safely trapped…