Why are there no monkeys or apes in Europe?

[Eddi]

Why are there no monkeys or apes in Europe?

Apart from humans and in zoos that is

And I'm aware there are monkeys in Gibraltar but why nowhere else in Europe?

 

[Revoltingest]

High cost of living?

 

[Heyo]

Why are there no monkeys or apes in Europe?

Apart from humans and in zoos that is

And I'm aware there are monkeys in Gibraltar but why nowhere else in Europe?

It's too cold here.

 

[Secret Chief]

Or indeed tigers.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Why are there no monkeys or apes in Europe?

Apart from humans and in zoos that is

And I'm aware there are monkeys in Gibraltar but why nowhere else in Europe?

Climate seems to be the main factor:

THERE ARE NO WILD, NATIVE primates, besides people, in Europe. There are many—monkeys, apes, lemurs—in Africa, and plenty in Asia, and in Central and South America. But none in Europe. “The thing is that primates are tropical and subtropical creatures; they don’t really go too far north, these days,” says Robert Martin, the director of the Anthropological Institute at the University of Zurich, who also worked on Gibraltar, specifically with the monkeys, for about a decade. Monkeys prefer warm temperatures and high levels of precipitation, in general. Most can’t survive in a place that’s too cold or too dry.

There is evidence in the fossil record of macaques and other monkeys all over Western Europe, as far east as Greece and even in Britain. Before the most recent Ice Age, which began about 110,000 years ago, Europe was a much warmer and wetter place, and monkeys thrived. But as the planet cooled, primate distribution contracted around the equator, and the European monkeys either moved out or died out.

The Curious Case of the Last 'Wild' Monkeys in Europe

Barbary macaques remain in Gibraltar thanks to a quirk of empire.

www.atlasobscura.com

It's similar to how moose probably wouldn't survive in a tropical climate.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The apes took over.

 

[SalixIncendium]

@Heyo and @Debater Slayer are correct. The climate is too cold in much of the northern hemisphere for many primates to survive. Here is a world map of primates (sans human) habitats. You'll see most of the population between 35° and -35° latitude. Europe is north of that.

 

[ChristineM]

Why are there no monkeys or apes in Europe?

Humans are apes.

Edit. Sorry @Eddi, i misread the OP.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Humans are apes.

He clarified that in the second line of his post.

 

[ChristineM]

He clarified that in the second line of his post.

Yes, i misread it. I don't lnow what i saw but humans didn't register

 

[Secret Chief]

Yes, i misread it. I don't lnow what i saw but humans didn't register

Hummus?