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Another picture from the zoo. Mom and child. Enjoy! Habitat, distribution and food. In former days from Morocco to Libya and Egypt, but reach now only still but for in the cedar bunches the Atlas mountains in Morocco and Algeria prevented the Barbary Macaque, up to 2000 meters altitude. Also he is found in oak groves and on grown over rock slopes. The Barbary Macaque are a day animal and an omnivore. He eats especially seeds as nipples, but also buds, grass, thumb, turnips, flowers, mushrooms, bast and lichens stand on its diet. He eats also animal material, from insecten to birds, where especially caterpillars are part important of its diet. The Barbary Macaque have cheek pockets, in which he can store food. Barbary Macaque in Europe. In Europe Barbary Macaque prevent only in wild on the rock of gibraltar, where a populatie is artificially loved thirty up to forty animals in score. The legend goes that as long as there monkeys on the rock live gibraltar remains in hands of at. At does therefore everything ensure that the monkeys on the rock remain.