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Barbary ape

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Barbary ape

Tailless, yellowish-brown macaque monkey Macaca sylvanus, 55–75 cm/20–30 in long. Barbary apes are found in the mountains and wilds of Algeria and Morocco, especially in the forests of the Atlas Mountains. They were introduced to Gibraltar, where legend has it that the British will leave if the ape colony dies out.

The macaque is threatened by illegal logging, which is devastating some of the ancient forests in the area. Although it is breeding well in captivity, forest loss may confound attempts to reintroduce this species into the wild.



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SNAP HAPPY: Victoria Dwyer, above, gets close to a Barbary ape as friend Trisha Parker watches on; Kathryn Lock at Ayers Rock; Carol Guy and her friends from Caerau and Ely in Barbados; and Vincent Black, from Grangetown, Cardiff, who sent us photos of himself with the Echo in the British Virgin Islands
A cluster of 25 Barbary apes — a species of monkey usually weighing about 15-25 pounds — moved to a popular beach-side area some months ago where they have been stealing food, entering rooms through open windows and harassing tourists, officials said.
Two of the Barbary apes have already been given lethal injections and there are plans to kill 23 more after a "breakaway group" vandalised hotel rooms and ran
 
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