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 ...

Trentham Monkey Forest is a woodland experience where visitors can see 140 endangered Barbary macaque monkeys living freely ...

Abreu’s is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys ...

The population of Barbary macaques has decreased by more than 50% in the last 30 years, with fewer than 8,000 left in the wild. Being from Africa, they are geographically the closest monkeys to ...