In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape—Mme. Abreu’s is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South ...

Legend has it that if the famous Barbary Apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar, it's a sign that the British will lose control of it. During World War II, a British officer is put in charge of the apes.

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 ...