Barbary ape

NOUN
  1. tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar
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  • There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
  • I would also encourage others to do so on the 'Barbary ape principle' (see Devil's Kitchen passim). Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • The trouble is that Barbary apes are not domestic animals.
  • Galen had worked mainly on Barbary apes, considered closest to the human race.
  • A few other primates, such as the Barbary Ape, have the word ape in their common names usually to indicate lack of a tail, but they are not regarded as true apes. Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb
  • There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
  • Barbary apes live in Morocco and north Algeria.
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