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BARBARY APE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)
APE , a tailless

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MONKEY

monkey inhabiting

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MOROCCO

Morocco, and the

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rock of

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GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar (where it may have been introduced), and referable to the otherwise

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ASIATIC

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GROUP

group of macaques, in which it alone represents the subgenus Inuus . This monkey, Macacus inuus, is

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LIGHT

light yellowish-brown above and yellowish-

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white below, with the naked

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PART

part of the

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FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face flesh-coloured . It is entirely terrestrial in habits, at least on Gibraltar, and goes about in droves .

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