A TV crew has captured a rare astonishing tussle for power among Barbary macaque monkeys after they discovered the group’s long-term leader had vanished.
When the BBC crew arrived in the Atlas Mountains to film the group, they were astonished to find that the alpha male - who’d led them for the past seven years - had vanished.
It meant that cameras caught the leadership battles between the dominant males vying to take his place, giving the hour-long Dynasties special a story never caught on camera before.
