as long as the apes can be seen bounding on the cliffs above the town, it says, gibraltor will remain under british control. our reporter mabel gundlach traveled to the bouhachem forest in morocco. barbary macaques are under threat of extinction but here they're supposed to be able to live in peace though that is not as easy as it sounds. >> we're on the road in the monkey bus, driving at a leisurely pace. that's the only way we even have a chance of spotting wild barbary macaques. welsh woman sian waters and her team have been observing the lives of these threatened prime eights for several years especially in the reef mountains in northern morocco. >> in some places in morocco for instance in the middle atlas, there is a research project going on there that looks particularly at the wild macaques' behavior. so the macaques have been habituated specifically for that research. here, for example, they are not habituated to people at all. they're afraid of people and so when they see people they run. so it is impossible to follow them. >> the habitat of the barbary macaques is under thr