Shortys2025 | The Watchers of Table Mountain

🐒✨ Twenty-Four-year-old Kanna June, an environmental science student researching Peninsula ecosystem health, discovers that baboon troops across the Western Cape are conducting sophisticated environmental monitoring that human systems have failed to detect. When her mobile glitches during research at Boulders Beach, she uncovers coordinated inter-troop communication revealing systematic contamination assessment that challenges everything primatology understands about territorial behaviour.

As wealthy Simon's Town residents mobilise for weekend removal operations targeting 4 troops, 2 southern and 2 northern, Kanna joins the Peninsula Collective - a research network integrating traditional ecological knowledge with contemporary environmental science. Racing against municipal elimination schedules, they must document that baboon environmental intelligence provides crucial ecosystem health data that conservation policy cannot afford to lose.

Set against Cape Town's urban wildlife management crisis, this ecological fiction explores collaborative conservation through interdisciplinary research that validates traditional knowledge without appropriation, demonstrating that environmental protection serves human interests through animal intelligence recognition rather than charismatic species appeal.

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