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Monkeys in Europe, Past and Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

F. E. Zeuner
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It will come as a surprise to some readers that monkeys were contemporaries of prehistoric man in Europe north of the Alps. Finds are few, yet sufficient to make this statement and also to say that they belonged to the genus Macaca, of which the modern “Gibraltar Ape” is a member.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 1 , Issue 6 , August 1952 , pp. 265 - 273
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1952

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page 268 note 1 Other reports say that in 1913 only three females were left. In the light of Major Skelton's findings this does not appear probable. Moreover, the amusing story of the ape that attacked a little girl in 1912, related by SirRussell, Claude, in Oryx, I, p. 23Google Scholar, suggests that apes were not yet rare in that period.

page 269 note 1 In 1923 an unsuccessful attempt was made to secure permission to transfer all remaining apes to North Africa. Fortunately it was not granted.