Gibraltar Monkeys
Around 300 Barbary macaques live on the Upper Rock in six troops. The feeding station at Ape's Den is where you meet them, with a briefing before anyone opens a door.
They are wild animals, not an attraction. They are also the reason a good many people come to Gibraltar, so the etiquette matters: no food anywhere on your person, no bags left open, no touching and no selfies with a macaque on your shoulder. Fines are real and so are the bites.
Handled properly, twenty minutes at the den is the highlight of the trip. Infants ride on their mothers' backs, adolescents test each other on the wall, and the dominant male watches the whole thing from the highest point he can find.
Our tip
Put snacks in the vehicle before we arrive. A macaque can find a cereal bar through a zipped rucksack in about four seconds.
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