Primates

Barbary Macaque

The Barbary macaque is a four-season monkey, it usually lives north of the Sahara desert and in Europe.

Barbary Macaque
Scientific name Macaca Sylvanus
Diet Fruits, leaves, bark, bulbs and mushrooms
Distribution Sahara, Europe
Habitat Desert

Diet

A very social individual, it lives in groups, feeds on fruits, leaves, bark, bulbs and mushrooms but sometimes also on insects and other small invertebrates. In the evening it climbs into trees to sleep sheltered from predators…

Conservation and threats

With fewer than 10,000 individuals in the wild, the species has been considered endangered since 2008 yet it does not benefit from a European breeding program, but only from a European studbook (second level of European breeding program for endangered species).