<p>Snow clings to a macaque in the Middle Atlas mountains. Barbary macaques are the only African monkeys that live north of the Sahara, and they’re one of the few monkey species to dwell in a cold climate.</p>

Snow clings to a macaque in the Middle Atlas mountains. Barbary macaques are the only African monkeys that live north of the Sahara, and they’re one of the few monkey species to dwell in a cold climate.

Monkeys of Morocco

Playful yet contemplative, fierce yet shy, beloved yet threatened, Barbary macaques are monkeys of distinction.

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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