European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gibraltar Ope or tailless Monkey strikes a pose for local i the apes of Gibraltar by Paul staff writer by Jove pm walking through Gibran minding me own noticing the pretty and Bloomin Barbary ape plops on me should Prati Caily knocks me it fairly Well takes the wind out of up Steps gunner portlock of the Royal artillery and keeper of the apes of and he see to me that All on the whole there very with still trying to get my i Hope who has served on the Rock for 2t says tease or stroke or pick them and youll be All right dont like to be held like a just let them come to no cause for  Settle on your head and  search your pockets for food and sometimes swing on your on the As i the apes Are very of youve got to remember there wild not and get upset by sudden movements or unusual if treated sensibly and gently they act most who acts As Foster father to the 36 knows them All personally by name and their individual likes and oldest ape is 19yearold Twenty is a Jolly Good age for an portlock maybe Shell last another two or three it proved to be 4yearold Alex who had made my shoulder a Landing Jolly Good this Alex it be rather a Good idea if hed Dedde to join Becky on that wait met is very partial to says the apes especially like Choco later says the by All lets get Alex some lets get him a whole Box f Ull portlock gets some by Alex goes to gobble them on the longer do 1 feel like boy in a Tarzan says Are pure they forage for roots and berries on the but their main source of food is provided by the Royal it consists of two meals a provided at 9 am and 4 the apes Are Al ways punctual for their each amounts to about two pounds and we include such items As Sweet Green veg biscuits and this regular feeding has largely pre vented the raids which brought the apes into disrepute in the past since the Bock became a British Poa in 1704 there have been numerous official complaints about depredations of the k of portlock with one of his still pending is a claim on the sex by a Royal engineers colonel stat ing that a raiding party stole his dug up his frightened his destroyed his and slept in his there Are two packs on the with 19 and 17 and their Normal habitat is High on the they live in two most definitely not says and Romp the Queens Gate pack is the one usually seen by the tourists near the town Cen Ter the other la the Middle Hill the time of Day  come Down de pends says sometimes  stay Down for two or three actually the apes Arent there tailless monkeys which origin ated on the North african the Gibraltar apes comprise the Only wild Monkey tribe in been known on the Rock for Many and there is no record of How they first there Are several and the two Bast known Are a Vang relies of the time when Europe and Africa were joined at the Straits of Gibraltar they came from Africa by a 10mile underground Tunnel emerging at one of the unexplored branches of Michaels Cave High on the officials say that these legends Are easily discounted and add of the feasible the most Likely is that they were brought Over by the moors about 12 centuries the stars and stripes twin Kief Oes cute dancer Judy Baylin in one of her Delmyrna Simpson Evan Norrinne Jacobus and