Summary: In the article, Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights and “Dignity” to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research by Ed Yong, he approaches the issue of the rights to apes confronted by a pending Spanish law. The Great Ape Project (GAP), established in 1993, demands a basic set of morals and legal rights for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans. In June, GAP was able to persuade the Spanish Parliament’s environmental committee to approve a resolution supporting these goals. Fortunately, other countries also took steps to protect great apes from experimentation.
The primate freedom organization protects primates from inhuman experimentation in hopes to stop animal experimentation. They also donate Primate Freedom Tags and provide research to other organizations. Finally, they write articles for campus publications, foster community, and campus-based Primate Freedom Projects, and work to connect all primate freedom efforts
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.
The article I have chosen was written by Helen Pilcher and is about evolution of creatures, especially for primates. However, until now, what do our very first primates were like still remain mysterious as we do not have sufficient information and evidences which are 60 million years ago. Yet, we still cannot deny that evolution occurs in creatures. No matter for humans, animals or plants, all of them will make changes because of their living habits and environment in order to survive. In this article, the author explains everything clearly about the primate evolution was taken around million years ago and ancestors are a small and nocturnal creature.
When reading in chapter 9 about “Geology and Primate Origins”, I came to a decision to choose the relative dating techniques. It is dating techniques that establish the age of a fossil only in comparison to other materials found above and below it. Relative dating techniques use the principles of stratigraphy to tell us how old something is in relation to something else without applying an actual chronological age. An example of this technique is biostratigraphy (faunal correlation), biostratigraphy is a relative dating technique using the comparison of fossils from different stratigraphic sequences to estimate which layers are older and which are younger; employed in the Early Pleistocene deposits at Olduvai and other African sites. The prime
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.
Humans have been examining and studying non-human primates for ages in an attempt to further understand the reasoning behind human behavior and base instinct. While it would be ideal to study non-human primates in the wild, away from possible interference from human civilization, that is often not the case, especially for students, and in this case the non-human primates have been observed within captivity. Specifically, the species observed were the Tufted Capuchin monkey (Cebus apella) and the common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) at the Living Links to Human Evolution Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo. The tufted capuchin monkey is most commonly found within the neotropical regions of South America including: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname,
In Penang Island, there are two diurnal primate species, the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) and the dusky leaf monkey (Trachypethicus obscurus). Both of these species are Old World Monkeys. The long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), which is also known as crab-eating macaque is widely distributed in tropical mainland and insular Southeast Asia (Fooden 1995), belongs to Cercopithecinae family. They can be found in a wide variety of habitats such as mangrove forests, primary and secondary forests, freshwater swamps, peat swamps. They can even be found in agriculture areas and villages that are near the forests, national parks, recreational parks, tourist attractions.
Climate change had a very large hand in the evolution of non primate evolution. Many factors that were changed as the worlds climate changed influenced the development of primates. The change in topography in certain regions changed the types of foods that were available in those regions, which in turn could kill of species that only eat one food group such as fruit. If the climate becomes colder than the fruit could not grow ideally, and therefore primates who ate fruit as there primary source of nutrients would either have to find another food group to adapt to or face extinction. The largest change is obviously one of change in terrain.
W.E.B. Du Bois on “The Souls of Black Folks” Success is something that every person want to achieve in life because everyone love the taste of winning. However, not every each and individual person can accomplish success in every attempts because there will always be the times of winning and the time of losing. Our society is built on the principle of generalized competition that every aspect of life is a game. One must engage at a personal level that every other person is a competitor or potential competitor because competition is generalized to most parts of society.
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.
The illegal hunting and trade of primate meat is a large contributing factor to the decline of primate species in the tropics. This, in addition to habitat loss and fragmentation, disease, and the pet trade, is putting many primate species at high risk of extinction. Poverty, population growth, construction of roads, emergence of regional and international markets, and new hunting technology are triggering the increased hunting pressure on forest mammals. Primate species are especially vulnerable to increased hunting pressure because of their slower reproductive cycles. The decline of primate species must be stopped to avoid their extinction and the potential consequences that this could have for tropical forests.
Primates have less children than most other mammals, allowing them more time to make sure the child survives, learns and adapts. Females can spend more time teaching, taking care of and feeding them. These mammals then become much smarter and well prepared for the world. There are several different social groups within a primate group. Including: groups with single females and offspring, male groups with several females, polyandrous family groups and multi males with multi females.
