14/10/11 ..A troop of Barbary Macaques preen each other looking for content with preening each other, looking for mites and fleas, the
14/10/11 ..A troop of Barbary Macaques preen each other looking for content with preening each other, looking for mites and fleas, the Barbary Macaques on Gibraltar have now taken to leaping onto the heads of unsuspecting tourists to check them for of the monkeys landed on Jo Roberts, 37, when she visited the British colony this month. "I didn't see it coming - it clouted me on the head when it landed - it really hurt and was was very heavy - it scratched my shoulder. It started pulling and chewing on my hair. I terrified it was going to pee on me. Although I think my daughter enjoyed seeing it on my head."..It is an offence to feed the monkeys although drivers of tour busses continue to attract the cheeky monkeys with peanuts and fruit. The monkey frequently mob the busses stealing tourists' bags and 2008 some of the monkeys living on the rock were culled after terrorising tourists, running riot on a beach, breaking into hotel rooms and scavenging in bins in the town centre. ..The following year a British family needed hospital treatment after being attacked by a troop of monkeys in Gibraltar Barbary Macaques are considered by many to be the top tourist attraction in Gibraltar. At present there are some 300 animals in five troupes occupying the area of the Upper popular belief holds that as long as Gibraltar Monkeys exist on Gibraltar, the territory will remain under British rule. During World War II, the population dwindled to just seven monkeys. Sir Winston Churchill ordered that their numbers be replenished immediately from both Morocco and Algeria due to this traditional Barbary Apes of Gibraltar, Macaca Sylvanus, are actually tail-less monkeys. No one is really sure how the only wild apes in Europe arrived in Gibraltar. The two most popular explanations as to the appearance of the apes of Gibraltar is either that they crossed via a subterranean tunnel from their native Morocco or
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