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The UK and EU have reached a agreement over the future of Gibraltar, solving what the government described as the ‘last major ...
Algeria and Gibraltar and also known as the Barbary ape for its resemblance to its larger, also tailless, cousin. The Barbary macaque is one of 20 species of macaque, which inhabit a greater ...
MADRID, Spain — A renegade group of Gibraltar's Barbary apes has annoyed residents so much that authorities announced plans Thursday to kill them. A cluster of 25 Barbary apes — a species of ...
The legend is that the British will hold Gibraltar only so long as the Barbary apes (Macaca sylvana, Europe’s only native species) remain there. Since 1780, when the chattering monkeys warned ...
We had not proceeded more than ten minutes from the main road before we heard the chatter of a Barbary ape on the bank above us, and saw him scrambling along the rocks. Shortly afterwards ...
An Englishwoman and her daughter had been attacked and troops had been called out to hunt down the attacker—one of Gibraltar’s famed Barbary apes, last wild monkeys in Europe. Natives of ...
The Barbary macaque, also known as a Barbary ape, escaped from the Salem Monkey Mountain wildlife park in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and park manager Roland Hilgartner said he ...
Unlike their macaque relatives, however, Barbary macaques lack a tail. This means they’re sometimes called Barbary apes, because no ape has a tail. But this name is misleading. They’re actually ...
They include the Barbary apes of Gibraltar, which were provided with rations by the British army after the second world war. They are eaten as a delicacy in Indonesia and sold elsewhere as bush meat.