Earlier this year in May, Sian Waters kindly invited us to visit her exhibition on Barbary Macaque Conservation in Tetouan. Sian set up a project, the BMCRif, few years ago in order to protect the Barbary macaque species in this region. The exhibition started off with some basic facts about Barbary Macaques. Then it moved […]
Month: July 2012
Where is Wally? Answers
Many thanks for your participation. No more suspense, I give you the answers: Picture tourist group 1: As you can see in the picture, there is a monkey lying on the ground with his head up. This is fingers. He is lying this way 80% of the time! Picture green group: There are 2 monkeys […]
New paper published by members of the Barbary Macaque Project
A new paper from our team has just been published in the journal African Zoology: Kaburu SSK, MacLarnon A, Majolo B, Qarro M, Semple S (2012). Dominance rank and self-scratching among wild female Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). African Zoology., 47: 74-79. Here is the abstract: Measuring rates of self-scratching provides a powerful index of anxiety […]