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Gibraltar apes

GIBRALTAR: The apes of Gibraltar, more famous than the Rock's human inhabitants, are breeding too fast and becoming a threat to humans to such an extent that the colony's parliament has voted to impose birth control.

Of the 300 half-tame apes that live on the Rock, more than a third must be culled or prevented form breeding to reduce the population to 180, the ideal figure, according to the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society (GONH), for the territory's six square kilometres.

The government at first used strong arm tactics to cut the ape population, eliminating them by lethal injection, but this caused an outcry among the human population.ÑAFP