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BARBARY APE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARBARY See also:APE , a tailless See also:monkey inhabiting See also:Algeria, See also:Morocco, and the See also:rock of See also:Gibraltar (where it may have been introduced), and referable to the otherwise See also:Asiatic See also:group of macaques, in which it alone represents the subgenus Inuus. This monkey, Macacus inuus, is See also:light yellowish-See also:brown above and yellowish-See also:white below, with the naked See also:part of the See also:face flesh-coloured. It is entirely terrestrial in habits, at least on Gibraltar, and goes about in droves.

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