Barbary Macaque
Macaca sylvanus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Epic
- Observations
- 2,222
- Most observed in
- 🇩🇿 Algeria
- Conservation
- Endangered
Description
The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, along with a small introduced population in Gibraltar. It is the type species of the genus Macaca. From the Early Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene, until around 85-40,000 years ago, it was widely distributed in Europe.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Barbary macaque”.