Cape Point

This guide to Cape Point in Cape Town follows the chacma baboon troops that have ranged this windswept headland since before it became a nature reserve in 1939, and the coastal trick some of them learned nowhere else in Africa: wading into tide pools to flip rocks for crab and limpet. It also traces the story of a male named Fred from a nearby troop, whose taste for car doors and picnic bags turned him into something of a local legend. Listen for why the sign warning you to lock your doors is less a suggestion than a peace treaty.