Barbary macaque

The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a stocky, tailless Old World monkey and the only macaque that lives wild outside Asia. Its native range is the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, where it favours cedar, fir and oak forests, and a small introduced colony of about 300 animals lives on the Rock of Gibraltar, which makes these macaques the only wild Old World monkeys in Europe. Adults eat a mixture of plants and insects. Males take an unusually active part in caring for infants, and because paternity is uncertain they help raise any infant in the group. Males live to around 25 years and females up to 30. Habitat fragmentation, logging, poaching for the pet trade and killing by farmers have driven the North African population down, and the IUCN has listed the species as endangered since 2008.