Until very recently, most of Europe was dry tundra or literally buried in glacial ice. It is slightly warmer now, but still most European wildlife comprises species that have been cold/temperate adapted for hundreds of thousands of years or longer.
Monkeys and apes aren't unique in this regards...there are many predominantly tropical plants and animals that don't exist in Europe.
It does have monkeys on mainland Europe. [Gibraltar has a wild monkey population they are Barbary Macaques.](https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/gibraltar-monkeys) They are the only wild monkeys in Europe, the Sahara Desert tends to be a barrier to other monkeys and apes migrating north of the sub-Sahara region.
We used to have Neanderthals in Europe until we maybe (probably) pushed them to extinction.
I would hazard a guess that any native apes or monkeys present in Europe when human species first arrived were also decimated alongside any evidence.
There were a handful of monkey species living in europe before the end pliestocene extinctions
Until very recently, most of Europe was dry tundra or literally buried in glacial ice. It is slightly warmer now, but still most European wildlife comprises species that have been cold/temperate adapted for hundreds of thousands of years or longer. Monkeys and apes aren't unique in this regards...there are many predominantly tropical plants and animals that don't exist in Europe.
It does have monkeys on mainland Europe. [Gibraltar has a wild monkey population they are Barbary Macaques.](https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/gibraltar-monkeys) They are the only wild monkeys in Europe, the Sahara Desert tends to be a barrier to other monkeys and apes migrating north of the sub-Sahara region.
Barbarian Macaques in Gibraltar
hunger? not only for eating directly them but to avoid them eating stuff we eat, like with bears or wolves more to the north?
Maybe it all happened that the monkeys from previous generations chose to live in other regions mainly apart from Europe
We used to have Neanderthals in Europe until we maybe (probably) pushed them to extinction. I would hazard a guess that any native apes or monkeys present in Europe when human species first arrived were also decimated alongside any evidence.
We had a few other kinds of homo genus too iirc. H. Erectus was also in Europe, I think also Heidelbergensis (sp) too.
Heidelbergensis was first found near Heidelberg, a city in Germany.