In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape—Mme. Abreu’s is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South ...
Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of the apes.
This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...
García-Margallo lashed out over the Rock’s tobacco sales, which he said could not be justified “even if all the children and Barbary apes in Gibraltar smoked”. “Instead of making cheap ...