This field-based course explores baboon behaviour and human-wildlife conflict in a working conservation setting. Students examine troop dynamics, foraging patterns, and social structures while engaging with real-world land-use issues. With baboons regularly raiding orchards, food stores, waste areas, and interacting with people and domestic animals, the program focuses on understanding behaviour to inform conflict mitigation. Participants build ethograms, observe behavioural sequences, and assess practical deterrent strategies in the field. The aim is to explore approaches that balance ecological insight with the realities of land management. Ideal for students in zoology, ecology, conservation, or animal behaviour, this two-week program combines bushveld fieldwork with applied research designed to address one of Africa’s most persistent conservation challenges.