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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a curious place. Before the trip I reread the chapter on Gibraltar in Paul Theroux’s “Pillars of Hercules”. Among other things, he wrote about one group of resident primates on the rock: The Rock Apes of Gibraltar are Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus), the only native apes in Europe. The apes are still resident, […]