Gibraltar Hotels Don't Put Up With Monkey Business
Gibraltar, the British-owned peninsula on the southern border of Spain, is famous for its Barbary apes, which tourists love to attempt to take pictures with, only to be peed on or have their wallets stolen by the wily creatures. But these monkeys are now in the process of being culled, partially for messing with the wrong people: hotel guests.
Rooms at Gibraltar's Caleta Hotel recently were vandalized by a "rogue pack" of the apes scouring for food. "What has to stop is the damage that apes are doing to Gibraltar--private properties and individuals--without anyone taking responsibility for it," the hotel's general manager Franco Ostuni recently told Reuters.
Of course, animal rights groups are in a tizzy over this, with the International Primate Protection League (who knew there was such a thing?) calling for tourists to boycott Gibraltar if the cull continues. So we wonder, would such a thing make you curtail your travel plans? Or are you more apt to book a room at the Caleta Hotel now?
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