Tourists banned from touching Gibraltar monkeys
According to local folklore, Gibraltar would cease to be British if its famous macaques were to leave. – AFP pic, May 30, 2020.
AUTHORITIES in Britain’s tiny enclave of Gibraltar, fearful of a coronavirus outbreak among its famous Barbary monkeys, have banned tourists from touching the animals. The macaques, Europe’s only wild population of monkeys, are a popular attraction, and local folklore has it that Gibraltar would cease to be British if the monkeys were to leave the Rock.
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