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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The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has withdrawn its support for the use of paintball guns to shoot primates, after a juvenile baboon was killed in Simon's Town.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 male baboon was found dead in the garden of a Simon's Town resident.