This habitat includes a large climbing frame reaching up to 9 metres tall with a large glass window looking into their outdoor area. Barbary macaques are Europe’s only species of primate!

This area was previously used as an additional area for our African lions but has since been redeveloped to a space used by our barbary macaques.

You may notice that these macaques don’t have a tail! They have a seat bone and calluses on their bottom which is why they sleep upright!

In the year
2018
this habitat opened
Around
100
individuals make a troop
They live for around
20
years in the wild
They are around
60cm
in length

Animals in Out of Africa

Mammals

Barbary Macaque

Macaca sylvanus

From: Morocco, Algeria, Gibraltar

Status: Endangered

Quick Fact: These macaques have large cheek pouches that can hold as much food as their stomachs.

Find me in: Out of Africa

Mammals

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