Barbary Macaques in Gibraltar - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The Gibraltar Barbary macaque has featured on the Gibraltar pound's five-pence coin since 1988 and on the tercentenary edition one penny coin since 2004.
  • They are also featured in the 2007 Stieg Larsson novel The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
  • The Gibraltar Barbary macaques are also central to the plot of Paul Gallico's 1962 comedic novel Scruffy, set during WWII when their numbers were dwindling.
  • James Bond (Timothy Dalton) is startled by one in the pre-credit sequence of the 1987 film The Living Daylights during a training exercise on Gibraltar. Several more are seen watching and getting out of the way of Bond's struggle with an assassin on a burning munitions truck as it speeds through the tourist zone.

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