Barbary macaque
Macaca sylvanus
EndangeredPhoto: Karyn Sig · CC BY 2.0
Mammalomnivore
The Barbary ape is a tailless monkey that lives in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa and oddly, also on the Rock of Gibraltar. These adaptable primates once roamed across Europe thousands of years ago, but today Gibraltar's troop is Europe's only wild monkey population.
- Around 300 Barbary apes live on Gibraltar's rocky slopes.
- They're the sole wild monkey species remaining in Europe.
- Their North African relatives are slowly disappearing from mountain forests.
MountainAfricaEurope
Read more on WikipediaAt a glance
- Classification
- Mammal
- Scientific name
- Macaca sylvanus
- Habitat
- Mountain
- Regions in this directory
- Africa, Europe
- Diet
- omnivore
- Relative size
- medium
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered (EN)
