Animated series. MK and his friends attend a play, run secretly by the Macaque, that appears to relate to the Monkey King and the Macaque's close friendship.

These monkeys are opportunists ... to see a different kind of value—they start to get it.” Teaching kids about the macaques attracts parents’ support for their protection, Hilser said.

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...