Endangered
Barbary macaque
Macaca sylvanus
Barbary macaque is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Macaca sylvanus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Barbary macaque has a dark pink face with a pale buff to golden brown to grey pelage and a lighter underside. The colour of mature adults changes with ages. In adults and subadults the fur on the back is variegated pale and dark that is due to banding on individual hairs.
The mean head-body length is 55.7 cm (21.9 in) in females and 63.4 cm (25.0 in) in males.
Range and habitat
Historically, the Barbary macaque occurred across North Africa from Libya to Morocco. It lives mainly in fragmented areas of the Rif and the Middle and High Atlas mountain ranges in Morocco and the Grande and Petite Kabylie mountain region in Algeria. The Barbary macaque also occurs in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar at the southern tip of Europe's Iberian Peninsula.
By the Pleistocene, it inhabited the warmer Mediterranean regions of Europe, from the Balearic Islands and mainland Iberia and France in the west, east to Italy, Sicily, Malta, and as far north as Germany and Norfolk in the British Isles.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
While stress levels do not appear to be reduced in animals that are groomed, grooming more individuals leads to even lower stress levels. This is a benefit that might outweigh the costs to the groomer, that include less time to participate in other activities such as foraging. The diet of the Barbary macaque consists primarily of plants and insects.
In crisis
The Barbary macaque is a macaque species native to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, along with a small introduced population in Gibraltar. About 300 individuals live on the Rock of Gibraltar. This population appears to be stable or increasing, while the North African population is declining.
Wild populations of Barbary macaques have suffered a major decline in recent years to the point of being declared an endangered species on the IUCN Red List since 2008. The Barbary macaque is threatened by fragmentation and degradation of forest habitat, and poaching for the illegal pet trade. It is also killed in retaliation for raiding crops.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Barbary macaque is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Barbary macaque, Wikidata item Q199962. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
