#0116 · 🦊 mammals

Barbary Macaque

🇳🇱 Berberaap ·Macaca sylvanus

ENendangered 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © MOUHCINE AJDI · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Phil Benstead · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © boaski · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández · CC BY 4.0
5. © Ila France · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andrew Cleasby · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Jens-Christian Svenning · CC BY 4.0
8. © grinnin · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Thomas Galewski · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The Barbary macaque ( Macaca sylvanus ), also known as Barbary ape or magot , is a species of macaque unique for its distribution outside Asia. Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar, the Barbary macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,357iNaturalist observations
threat ENendangered

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,357 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.