EN

Translate:

Download the Mobile Audio Guide for Free - Available from 1st November 2018

Barbary Macaque Walking Tours
Barbary Macaque Walking Tours
  • Home
  • Walking Tours
  • Free Audio Guide Download
  • Tips
  • Facts
  • Partners
    • Gibraltar Cable Car
    • Upper Rock Nature Reserve
    • CT-CITYGUIDE
    • GONHS
    • izi TRAVEL
    • Helping Hand Trust
  • More
    • Home
    • Walking Tours
    • Free Audio Guide Download
    • Tips
    • Facts
    • Partners
      • Gibraltar Cable Car
      • Upper Rock Nature Reserve
      • CT-CITYGUIDE
      • GONHS
      • izi TRAVEL
      • Helping Hand Trust

EN

  • Home
  • Walking Tours
  • Free Audio Guide Download
  • Tips
  • Facts
  • Partners
    • Gibraltar Cable Car
    • Upper Rock Nature Reserve
    • CT-CITYGUIDE
    • GONHS
    • izi TRAVEL
    • Helping Hand Trust

Barbary Macaque Diet

The importance of Diet

Complimentary food is provided by the Barbary Macaque Management Team. This is not strictly necessary , but it is tradition and it allows tourists to find the macaques with ease.

Twice a day the macaques are given fresh fruits and vegetables along with nuts, seeds and grains in feeding areas around the upper rock. The food provided changes depending on its seasonality.
The fresh fruit and vegetables provided include:
Swedes, sweet potatoes, celery, tomatoes, melons, lettuce, white cabbage, red cabbage, apples, potatoes, cumbers, oranges, onions, bananas, custard apples, chicory, olives, turnips, green beans, sweet peas, carrots, pumpkin and aubergines.


Natural Foods
The Barbary macaques mostly eat plants (leaves, roots, herbs, grasses and fruits) but they will also eat insects, spiders and very small animals such as lizards.


Favorite Foods
Nettle trees – macaques will eat the berries produced
Wild Olive trees – macaques will eat the wild olives and leaves produced.
Cretan Viper’s Bugloss Flower – macaques will carefully take off individual petals and lick the nectar at its base.
Wild garlic – macaques will dig out and eat the garlic
Carob trees – macaques will eat the sweet carob fruit



Illegal Feeding - Why this is bad
Feeding the Barbary Macaques any food which is not naturally part of their normal diet will lead to health problems for the macaques. In addition, if we feed the macaques, they will associate all humans with food and therefore it can lead to negative interactions and bites.


Feeding in urban areas attracts the macaques to these areas and encourages them to spend more time in this environment roaming due to the availability of food.


If fed within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, this discourages the macaques from foraging for their food . It also encourages troops to split into smaller groups and would inevitably cause the younger macaques to not learn essential foraging techniques from the older macaques.

Copyright © 2018 Macaque Management Gibraltar 

Our Mission: Protect Gibraltar's Barbary Macaques

  • Privacy Policy
  • Audio Guide Team
  • Sponsored By Playtech
  • In the News
  • Zoos

Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you accept our use of cookies. Privacy Policy

Accept & Close