Barbary ape

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Barbary ape

A tailless monkey (Macaca sylvana) of Gibraltar and northern Africa. Also called magot.

Barbary ape

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates

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Barbary ape - tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar

Macaca sylvana

macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

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Barbary Macaca sylvana macaque magot monkey			The family, from Cannock, Staffs, had taken a cable car to the top of Gibraltar to see the rock's Barbary ape colony. Ape attack injures boy; GIBRALTAR by The Mirror (London, England) CAPTION(S): SNAP HAPPY: Victoria Dwyer, above, gets close to a Barbary ape as friend Trisha Parker watches on; Kathryn Lock at Ayers Rock; Carol Guy and her friends from Caerau and Ely in Barbados; and Vincent Black, from Grangetown, Cardiff, who sent us photos of himself with the Echo in the British Virgin Islands A bit of monkey business on the Rock for friends! Pool players find a ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) WHERE in Europe would you find Barbary apes living semi-wild? TIME OUT by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			Barbados-gooseberry vine Barbara Barbara Hepworth Barbara Tuchman Barbara Ward Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Barbarea Barbarea praecox Barbarea verna Barbarea vulgaris Barbaresque barbarian barbaric barbarically barbarisation barbarise barbarism barbarity barbarization barbarize Barbarossa barbarous barbarously Barbarousness Barbary Barbary ape Barbary Coast Barbary mastic Barbary pirate Barbary sheep Barbary States barbasco Barbastel barbastelle barbate Barbated barbecue barbecue pit barbecue sauce barbecued barbecued spareribs barbecued wing barbecuing barbed barbed wire barbed-wire grass barbel barbell barbellate Barbellulate barbeque			barbarity barbarization barbarization barbarize barbarize barbarized barbarized barbarizes barbarizes barbarizing barbarizing Barbaro Barbaro Barbaro, Gosafat Barbarossa Barbarossa Barbarossa Aquarium Club Barbarossa, Frederick Barbarossa, Frederick Barbarossa, Khair-al-Din barbarous barbarous barbarous barbarously barbarously barbarousness barbarousness Barbarus, Johannes Barbary Barbary Barbary ape Barbary apes Barbary apes Barbary Bay Development Company Limited Barbary Coast Barbary Coast Barbary Coast Mediterranean Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association Barbary Coast Vigilance Committee Barbary Corsairs Barbary Dove Barbary Dove Barbary duck Barbary Macaque Barbary Macaque Barbary mastic Barbary pirate Barbary Pirates Barbary sheep Barbary sheep Barbary sheep Barbary state Barbary state Barbary States Barbary States Barbary Wars Barbas Barbas Barbas barbasco barbascos

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