A third of farms surveyed in Algeria's Béjaïa province have been abandoned outright because of crop raids by endangered Barbary macaques, with 68% reporting daily foraging during peak season. The culprit isn't aggression or disease but lost figs, apples and roofing, and the monkeys seem to be learning their way around every fence and dog farmers try.

— via The Conversation — Canada, Rassim Khelifa, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Global Change Biology, Concordia University