What is Barbary macaque?
{{Speciesbox | name = Barbary macaque | image = Macaca sylvanus.Mother and baby.jpg | image_caption = Young Barbary macaque with its mother | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite iucn |title=''Macaca sylvanus'' |author=Wallis, J. |author2=Benrabah, M.E. |author3=Pilot, M. |author4=Majolo, B. |author5=Waters, S. |name-list-style=amp|page=e.T12561A50043570 |date=2020 |access-date=23 July 2020}}</ref> | genus = Macaca | species = sylvanus<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Primates |page=164 |id=12100565 |heading=Species ''Macaca sylvanus''}}</ref> | authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])<ref name=Linnaeus1758>{{cite book |last=Linnaeus|first=C. |title=Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis |year=1758 |chapter=Simia sylvanus |page=25 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/carolilinnisys00linn/page/25/mode/1up |edition=Decima, reformata |volume=I |publisher=Laurentii Salvii |location=Holmiæ}}</ref> | range_map = Macaca sylvanus range map.png | range_map_caption = Barbary macaque range | synonyms = ''Simia sylvanus'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> }} The '''Barbary macaque''' (''Macaca sylvanus''), also known as '''Barbary ape''' or '''magot''', is a [[macaque]] species native to the [[Atlas Mountains]] of [[Algeria]] and [[Morocco]]. It is one of the best-known [[Old World monkey]] species.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Emmanuel |first=J. |title=A Survey Of Population and Habitat of the Barbary Macaque ''Macaca sylvanus'' L. In North Morocco |journal=Biological Conservation |date=1982 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=45–66 |doi=10.1016/0006-3207(82)90046-5}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Old World monkeys]] [[Category:Mammals of Africa]] [[Category:Mammals of Europe]]