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Barbary Macaque

Macaca sylvanus

Classification

The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, along with a small introduced population in Gibraltar. It is the type species of the genus Macaca. From the Early Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene, until around 85-40,000 years ago, it was widely distributed in Europe.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Germany · 11Spain · 8