GIBRALTAR - Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Benjamin Myrick of Montgomery, Ala., tenses up while a Barbary macaque, or rock ape, rests on top of his shoulder at the top of the Rock of Gibraltar Friday, August 8, 2008.
Myrick is stationed on the 378-foot Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, based in Charleston, S.C. The Dallas is halfway through a four-month deployment and has made stops in Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana and Senegal. The cutter pulled into the port of Gibraltar for mid-deployment maintenance August 1, 2008. (Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Jorgensen)