No, of course not ! Several french parks (Romagne, la Boissière, Kintzheim, Rocamadour ...) have walk-through exhibit with barbary macaques and there was never a serious problem. But there is always a zookeeper in the enclosure to watch the monkeys...and the visitors !
There is also 'Monkey Forest' in the Uk devoted to one huge barbary macaque walkthrough. No attacks have beeen reported and the barbary macaques make a pleasant, if dull, exhibit.
Apenheul also have a Barbary Macaque walkthrough, and Yorkshire WP have planning permission for one (though they have for a while and I'm not sure if it will actually be built).
Plus, of course, you could argue the whole Rock of Gibraltar is one giant Barbary Macaque walkthrough exhibit.
Olomouc Zoo (Czech Republic) also has a walkthrough for Japanese Macaques:
of course, you could argue the whole Rock of Gibraltar is one giant Barbary Macaque walkthrough exhibit.
I guess the secret of a troublefree Barbary Macaque walkthrough is no public feeding of any kind to attract the Monkeys to people. On Gibralter I think they can(or they did used to be) become over confident and temperamental due to visitor feeding. I've also seen footage of 'wild' Macaques in Asia somewhere
where they gather where the public feed them, and the big males show aggressive tendencies if food is witheld from them.
Givskud Zoo in Denmark in Zoopark Erfurt in Germany also springs to mind as places that have huge walkthrough exhibits for barbary macaques. Erfurt's is especially nice being located on a hillside.
