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Just days after the Cape of Good Hope SPCA euthanised an injured baboon from a Simon’s Town troop another male baboon met the same fate.

The SPCA was forced to euthanise another male baboon from a Simon’s Town troop on Monday, the second in the space of a week.

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA was forced to euthanise a second male baboon on Monday in the second in the space of a week.

Mayoral committee member for spatial planning and environment Marian Nieuwoudt said her department was “concerned and appalled” at the incident. The city’s baboon population has grown from 350 in 2009 to 430 this year. The baboons have no natural predators in the Cape Peninsula, where leopards or lions no longer roam. In April, the city euthanised a male baboon which had started leading a splinter group of baboons from the Smitswinkel Bay troop to raids on homes in Murdoch Valley near Simon's Town. This was after the city said all other methods of deterring the male had failed and that ...

Getty Images A male juvenile baboon was killed last Thursday. The City of Cape Town believes baboons are at risk if rangers can't use paintball markers to keep them out of urban areas. The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has withdrawn its support for the use of paintball guns to shoot primates, after a juvenile baboon was killed in Simon's Town. The City of Cape Town maintains the use of paintball markers assists in keeping baboons out of harm's way by diverting them from urban areas. However, the NSPCA has rejected the method after a juvenile ma...