Gibraltar moves to protect its monkeys against coronavirus

Authorities in Britain’s tiny enclave of Gibraltar, fearful of a coronavirus epidemic among its famous Barbary monkeys, have banned tourists from touching the animals. The macaques, Europe’s only wild population of monkeys, are a popular tourist attraction, and local folklore has it that Gibraltar would cease to be British if the monkeys were to leave the Rock. Feeding them is already illegal and punishable by hefty fines. But now the government…