BARBARY APE

Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvana). also called Magot (Macaca sylvana), tailless, terrestrial macaque (q.v.) found in bands in Algeria, Morocco, and on the Rock of Gibraltar. The Barbary ape is about 60 centimetres (24 inches) long and has light yellowish-brown fur and a naked, pale-pink face. It is the only wild monkey in Europe and may have been taken westward during the Muslim Arab territorial expansion of the Middle Ages. According to legend, British dominion will end when the Barbary ape is gone from the British-held Rock of Gibraltar.