In the last days, whilst our team was not with the monkeys, 4 infants (3 girls and one boy) have disappeared out of the Green group. This is the group we have been studying over the last 3 years or so. We are convinced that the disappearance is caused by poaching for many obvious reasons […]

As our team searches through many square kilometres of often heavily forested, dense and challenging terrain (determined to locate a small group of quiet, agile, and cryptic monkeys), more often than not we hear our subjects long before we see them; juveniles crashing around in the morning canopy; the squeals of insistent infants; or the […]

Any Barbary macaque would tell you, if it could, that spring is a wonderful time to be in the Atlas Mountains. With the weather warming up there is sunbathing to be done, delicious flowers, herbs, new leaves and shoots to guzzle, and plenty of little black bundles of joy arriving to keep you hopping from […]

    As many of you will have noticed a couple weeks ago our new paper was published in African Primates describing new foods in the Barbary macaque diet. I would like to share with you here a couple of videos of these behaviours and a few photo’s.     The first video is of […]

Following the post by the Moroccan Primate Conservation about how close tourists can get to Barbary macaques in Ifrane National Park, I felt the need to tell you the consequences and risk that such behaviour may lead to. Every day we observe the behaviour of many tourists interacting with monkeys at the tourist group at […]