Why pick a holiday in Gibraltar? ‘We couldn’t go anywhere else’
If the residents of Apes’ Den are pleased to see a larger than usual number of Britons snapping them, cooing over them or, indeed, edging gingerly away from them, they give little indication of it.
It is not much of a stretch to suggest that the social, political and economic ramifications of the current pandemic have been wholly lost on the crag-haunting, tourist-attracting Barbary macaques as they lounge around their lair high above the busy streets and marinas of Gibraltar.
The small but admirably menacing primates do what they always do: they skulk, squabble, snooze and groom each other – and study their visitors
