Recommended: Habitat degradation &loss
Many primate represent diverse adaptations to life representing to life in its environment. These primates live in the tropical forests and consist of two main lineages: strepsirrhines and
The article, “Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?” by Ed Yong is trying to convince the reader to see a different side to primates. The Great Ape Project set legal rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutan. United Kingdom and New Zealand protect great apes from experimentation. For the Great Ape Project they are basically setting laws and higher standards for primates to me experimented on or held captive.
Today, the chimpanzee population is still very high, unlike the bonobos. There are many reasons, and speculations as to why the bonobo species is
The forests of Côte d’Ivoire have been cut down and are mostly gone, replaced with cocoa farms. Many animals that were once there are now critically endangered or extinct due to deforestation. (D) Since people are now cutting down forests and replacing them with cocoa farms, a lot of animals have lost their homes and communities. This has gone to an extreme level, as now most of the animals that seemed as if they could never go extinct now have, and many are critically endangered because of all the deforestation. Not to mention the effects on the environment deforestation has on climate change.
Climate change influence nonhuman primates because every time there was a climate change some primates weren't able to adapt because they are so specialized. What I mean by specialized is there fossils such as teeth and other feature of their body are not able to apdat to the new changes. An example is a rapid temperature increase around 55 mya created tropical conditions virtually everywhere around the world. Because of this there were creation of new habitats that tiggered an adaptive radiation of modern-appearing primates the Euprimates.
Climate change influences nonhuman primate evolution in a number of ways. Fore example, in Central Asia, climates increased temperature by an insane amount. However, the issue among primates became that it was too dry of an environment and they were not able to survive. Primates among the northern hemisphere pretty much disappeared as a result of the increase in temperature of that period. Additionally, in South Asia and East Africa, tropical rain forests were being taken out and instead they would have grassy woodland areas, much less wet than the environment they replaced.
The climate and it's different variable had many effects on the evolution of primates. It's obvious that when the weather changes, migration is necessary. When the weather changed, primates had to migrate, causing adaption to different environments. With each migration, new habitats were exposed to primates, giving them new ways of life. Enviornment change exposes new foods and new living accomidations.
The life span for chimpanzees is of 40 years to 50 years in the wild and over 50 years to 60 years in captivity ( ). Unfortunately chimpanzees are not as predominantly as they used to be and their population only grows at a rate of a few thousands per year ( ). As we can see the increase of their rate population is low, and if we want to keep learning from these fascinating primates we should take conscious and do something in order to conserve their species of the future generations, they deserve
Climate change influenced nonhuman primate evolution in a variety of ways. Around 55 mya, a serious period of global warming occurred just as euprimates were beginning to appear. Our book discusses how this rapid temperature increase created tropical weather conditions all across the globe. As a result, new habits were created and there was "an adaptive radiation of modern-appearing primates, the euprimates" (Larsen 260). In other words, the high global temperatures paired with the humidity let to the spread of tropical forests.
Throughout the years, primate evolution has been influenced by climate changes. This is because the bodies of these creatures have adapter over the years to the conditions surrounding their environment. Influences include the upright walking adaptation that was mainly an adaptation associated with dried habitats to not receive heat over their backs. The theories of early primate evolution include: the arboreal theory, the visual predation theory, and the angiosperm radiation theory.
Studying captive primates can help us learn not only how they behave, but also how they are similar or different to each other and humans as well as give us insight into the effects of captivity. This paper will be describing, comparing, and contrasting the behavior of two species of captive primates at the Alexandria Zoo, golden lion tamarins and howler monkeys, as well as discussing the possible effects captivity could have had on them. This paper will also discuss any human-like behaviors observed in the two primate species and what we as humans could learn about our own behavior by studying primates. The two primates I observed were 1 of 3 golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) all of unknown gender and a solitary female howler
Through history there has been evidence to help support the claim that climate change has influenced the evolution of primates. Scientific evidence has proven that during certain climate spikes such as the swamp age, apes in the given territories that encompassed Africa led a migration to the Asia and Europe territories. The same climate changes that was responsible for the creation of the Swiss Alpes and other phenomena, has been associated with the adaptation, extinction, and migration. As weather changed in certain areas, the land became more dry making it harder to obtain and hunt food. Climate change, in theory, led to the extinction of the Sivapithecids apes because of the inability that the species has to obtaining food.
Now, may I ask you something? Have you ever seen a primate wandering in its own habitat peacefully? I bet the answer would be no. In this era of globalisation, many forests have been cut down, both legally and illegally, in the name of development. Yet, what we seem to not acknowledge is the fact that the very forests that have been destroyed to pamper our endless lust to materialistic luxuries is also home to many endangered primates.
The world’s fourth largest island is particularly full of life and diversity. There are over 12,000 identified plant species and hundreds of other birds, mammals, reptiles and fish in Madagascar and it is estimated that nearly 8,000 endemic species are at risk due to deforestation (Clark). What are their implications for the future of Madagascar?
Hunting and Poaching Report by Nicholas Hong Si Wei of class 2E6 Research mentors: Mrs Candy Tong, Ms Sarala, Mr Ang Abstract: Hunting and poaching is the act of killing, capturing of wild animals. However, hunting is legal in some parts of the world whereas poaching is done illegally unfortunately, because of excessive hunting and poaching, this has become a global problem whereby many animals and decreasing dramatically in population or even extinction. Some of the cases include Amur Leopard, Black Rhino, Sumatran Tiger, and Sumatran Elephant which are critically endangered. Some extreme cases where by a particular species of animal is completely extinct include Atlas bear, Japanese sea lion, Carolina parakeet and dusky seaside sparrow.
