81. Global Decline Of Primates - A Worldwatch Institute Press Briefing Hunters tend to target the larger primates in the Amazon, for instance, woolyand the moabi tree of central Africa relies upon lowland gorillas to disperse http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/pr970828.html

Main Menu New Pubs Alerts September/October 1997 World Watch magazine Worldwatch Press Briefing on the Global Decline of Primates HOLD FOR RELEASE 12:00 noon EST Thursday, August 28, 1997 HALF OF ALL PRIMATE SPECIES FACE EXTINCTION Human pressures are crowding out our closest relatives The continued growth in human numbers and activities may cause the extinction of many of our nearest evolutionary relatives. The 233 non-human species of primates, including chimpanzees and other apes as well as monkeys, are collectively the most imperiled group of mammals on our planet. Almost half already face extinction, and nearly 20 percent more may soon reach threatened status, reports the Worldwatch Institute in "Death in the Family Tree", an article in the September/October 1997 issue of WORLD WATCH magazine. "We already knew that birds, freshwater fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals in general are declining in number and diversity," says author John Tuxill, a staff researcher at Worldwatch, "a warning that the Earth's biological diversity, which supports our economic wealth, is in trouble. Perhaps by realizing that human activity now threatens creatures like ourselves such as chimpanzees and gorillas, we will finally take meaningful action." Forest habitat loss to logging, mining, and encroaching human settlements is the biggest problem facing threatened primates. Hunting for food (one in three threatened primates is unsustainably hunted) and the largely illegal pet trade, which affects the "charismatic" species such as orangutans and gibbons, follow closely.

82. GeoZoo's Top 50 Primate Books! (January 1999). • The Fascinating World of primates (The Fascinating WorldOf Series) Angels Julivert, Marcel Socias Studios (January 1999). gorillas. http://www.geobop.com/GeoBooks/Animals/Mammals/Primates/

Primates The 50 Best Sellers GeoBooks! In association with Amazon.com and added enough additional information to help you shop smarter, leaving you more time to enjoy primates! Track down over 1,000 best-sellers on a wide variety of animal/natural history topics! Pick a Topic! General Reference General Apes Gorrilas Chimpanzees ... Miscellaneous Topics General References The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates Noel Rowe, Russell A. Mittermeier (Introduction) / Pogonias Pr / August 1996 Check it Out! Our Price: $47.96 Binding #2 Our Price: $55.96 The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation from Natural History Russell L. Ciochon(Editor), et al / Prentice Hall / August 1997 Check it Out! Our Price: $27.20 Introduction to the Primates Linda E. Curtis(Illustrator), Daris Ray Swindler / University of Washington Press / June 1998 Check it Out! Our Price: $22.00 Apes, Language, and the Human Mind E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, et al / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / June 1998 Check it Out!

83. Uganda Primate Safari Tours – Wildlife Safari Holiday To Africa With Wild Horiz of attractions Lake Victoria, game parks, birdrich wetlands, and tropical foreststhat are the home of mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and other primates. http://www.wildhorizons.org/wildhorizonshtml.root/Trips/Uganda.htm

Research Wild Facts About Us When you join our mailing list: E-Mail Wild Horizons have teamed up with Mountain Travel Sobek to offer this amazing adventure to help fund our humpback research. Dates: 21 February - 5 March 2003 14 - 26 March 2003 20 June - 2 July 2003 18 - 30 July 2003 3 - 15 August 2003 10 - 22 October 2003 20 February - 3 March 2004 19 - 31 March 2004 12 days 5 days moderate to strenuous game walks on steep trails 4-wheel-drive travel boat travel 6 nights deluxe camping 4 nights hotels or safari lodges back to top of page Uganda is known as the "pearl of Africa," a green and beautiful countryside with a multitude of attractions: Lake Victoria, game parks, bird-rich wetlands, and tropical forests that are the home of mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and other primates. On this unusual safari you'll have two opportunities for close encounters with mountain gorillas, one of the rarest animals on earth (there are fewer than 600 and none in captivity) and other encounters with bands of chimpanzees and up to a dozen other primates that include four kinds of bushbabies, gray-cheeked mangabeys, and six species of monkeys.

84. Role Of Apes, Lemurs And Monkeys In The Ecosystem primates (monkeys, apes, gorillas) primates include monkeys, chimpanzees,apes, gorillas, lemurs, ayeayes, bushbabies and capuchins. http://www.ecosystemworld.com/taxa005mam14.htm

HOME INTRODUCTION www.ecosystemworld.com 6.4 Taxonomic Groups and the Ecosystem KINGDOM: ANIMALIA Page 14 of 27 PHYLUM: Chordata CLASS: Mammalia Previous Class Back to Menu Previous Mammal Group Next Mammal Group There are around 27 orders of Mammalia. Click on each order name to go to the commentary for that order. Order: Macroscelidea (elephant shrews) Order: Perissodactyla (horses, rhinos, tapirs) Order: Pholidota (pangolins) Order: Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions, walrus) Order: Primates (monkeys, apes, gorillas) Order: Proboscidea (elephants) Order: Rodentia (rats, mice, squirrels) Order: Scandentia (tree shrews) Order: Sirenia (dugongs, manatees) References: Marshall Cavendish, Animal World, Great Britain, 1994, in association with the WWF. Issue 6, 19, 22, 64, 72, 95. Primates (monkeys, apes, gorillas) Place in the order of life Primates include monkeys, chimpanzees, apes, gorillas, lemurs, aye-ayes, bushbabies and capuchins. Being such a diverse group, they are spread right across the tropics and have adapted to many lifestyles. Mobility is not only varied in this group but often specialised. Monkeys have specific adaptations to allow them to move with total ease around their tree habitats and are great climbers. Gorillas and chimpanzees tend to amble around on the ground, while bushbabies scamper among branches. Lemurs inhabit ground and woodland environments and have their own peculiar running style.

85. Uganda Primates And Kenya Masai Mara - International WildLife Adventures - (800) the next days' visits into the gorillas' domain with our guides and learn of theproper ?etiquette' expected when we encounter these giant primates.We'll http://www.wildlifeadventures.com/2002/Specialist/specUgandaiten.htm

Primates of Uganda and Kenya's Masai Mara Day 1:February 9 Arrival in Entebbe Arrive at Entebbe Airport, Uganda via Nairobi, Kenya, where we transfer to our hotel. O/N Lake Victoria Hotel Days 2-4, February 10-12: Drive to Kibale Forest These personable, active primates are considered to be the closest species, evolutionarily, to our own. We'll be able to photograph them as they move and scramble about the trails and in the canopy overhead, feeding on fruits and other delicacies. Chimps are omnivores and will often band together to stalk and capture other animals - even other primates such as colobus monkeys and small antelope like dik-dik. Of course, the chimps aren't alone in the forest - we should also see and photograph primates such as vervet and red-tailed monkeys, both species of colobus monkeys (red and black-and-white) and grey-cheeked mangabeys. O/N: Ndali Lodge Day 5, February 13: To Queen Elizabeth National Park

86. Introducing Gorillas, Zoos With Gorillas. CONTENTS. About the gorilla (It is recommended.). Zoos with gorillas in Japan(ZOO LIST). primates. A page about the chimpanzee (Now Under Construction ). http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~batta/gorillalink-e.html

Introducing gorillas, zoos with gorillas. (Now Under Construction) I love gorillas. I've been searching web sites about gorillas for three years. Let me introduce some of them. CONTENTS About the gorilla iIt is recommended.j Zoos with gorillas in Japan (ZOO LIST) Zoos with gorillas in the world about the primates primates A page about the chimpanzee iNow Under Construction j About the gorilla POPOF(Pole Pole Foundation) Gorillas Online (Gorilla gorilla) Gorilla Haven The Gorilla Foundation Gorilla Help Site Mountain Gorilla Protection Zoos with gorillas in Japan. (ZOO LIST) (sorry,,,most page is only Japanese) Kushiro Zoo @ Sapporo Maruyama Zoo Yagiyama Zoological Park Kamine Zoo CHIBA ZOOLOGICAL PARK UENO ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS Nihondaira Zoo Hamamatu Zoological Garden Nagoya Higashiyama Zoo Japan Monkey Centre KYOTO MUNICIPAL ZOO Tobe Zoological Park FUKUOKA Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden Hirakawa Zoological Park Zoos with gorillas in the world. UNITED STATES Washington National Zoo Home Page - Animals, Plants, People, Movies and More. Woodland Park Zoo Tennessee Memphis Zoo Home PageiKnoxville Zooj North Carolina Georgia Zoo Atlanta Florida 7. Disney's Animal Kingdom Virtual Tour Index

87. Help The Primates Stop the Bushmeat Trade/End Hunting of primates Call for an end to theillegal hunting of chimpanzees, gorillas and other primates in Africa. http://www.apasfa.org/peti/primates.html

Hosting for this site is graciously donated by Animals for Consumption Bears Bovines Cats and Dogs ... Wolves images: www.corbis.com Online Petitions Stop the Bushmeat Trade/End Hunting of Primates - Call for an end to the illegal hunting of chimpanzees, gorillas and other primates in Africa. The hunting of primates continues to decimate the populations of endangered primates. Learn more at: http://www.wspa-international.org/campaigns/bushmeat/bushmeat04.html http://www.bushmeat.org/ Final Justice for Suzy - Petition to urge Jefferson County prosecutor, Robert G. Wilkins, to seek full felony charges against Jason Coats in the April shooting death of a chimpanzee in Festus, Missouri. We further urge Mr. Wilkins to not accept a lesser plea but to press fully to ensure that Mr. Coats is incarcerated for his crime. Petition Against Primate Pet Trade Primates are meant to live in forests. Unfortunately, many of these animals are forced to live in households. They are not meant to live as pets.

88. Gorillas Stock Photography http//stockpix.com/stock/animals/mammals/primates/gorillas/9.htm Lowland Gorilla - (Gorilla gorilla) Image 9 Lowland Gorilla Stock Photography, Gorilla http://www.stockpix.com/stock/animals/mammals/primates/gorillas/

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89. Primates primates were among the slowest moving primates that I observed at the zoo. Thegorilla I observed was in the same location with four other similar gorillas. http://www.soyboricua.com/alonso/Academic/primate.html

A. Alonso University of Southern California November 30, 1994 Email: alonso@streetgangs.com OBJECTIVE The purpose of this observation was to study the activities and behavior of some selected primates, and to discuss the differences and similarities of these primates. It would have been ideal to examine three primates from each continent, but at the Los Angeles Zoo, the primates there only represented Africa, South America and what the Los Angeles zoo calls "Eurasia." For this study I observed three different primates from Africa, two primates from South America, and two primates from "Eurasia". I wasn't able to observe any primates from Australia or Northern America at the zoo. RESULTS The primates that I observed from Africa were the Colobus Monkey, the Ringed tailed Lemur, and the Western low land Gorilla which are all Old World Primates. The primates I observed from South America were the Howler monkey, and the Uakari. The primates that were observed from "Eurasia" were the Orangutan and the Siamang. HABITAT DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION SOUTH AMERICA Howler Monkey Howler monkeys are in the class Aloutta and are simian new world monkeys. They eat tough green vegetation and have strong dentition to eat through their foods. Howlers can be found in the Andean forest, at altitudes of 2,800 m above sea level. These primates moved among branches and trees, but they didnt display the jumping or hoping like the Colobus and the Lemurs did. In fact they didnt move fast in the trees, and when they moved from branch to branch, they would pull the branch inward that they were moving to, then they would swing on it.

90. NHBS Science Bookstore: Mammals: Primates gorillas in the Mist view Dian Fossey; Gravity Posture and Locomotionin primates view Edited by FK Jouffroy, MH Stack and C Niemitz; http://www.nhbs.co.uk/we-sell-books-worldwide/z13gl.html

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91. Meet My Cousin,the Chimpanzee There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutansbut 1 It is more natural to group humans with certain other primates, as in http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/chimp.html

web hosting domain names email addresses related sites Meet my cousin the chimpanzee Most people take it for granted that humans are more important than apes.But this assumption has more to do with double standards than biology Richard Dawkins Sir, you appeal for money to save the gorillas. Very laudable, no doubt. But it doesn't seem to have occurred to you that there are thousands of human children suffering on the very same continent of Africa. There'll be time enough to worry about gorillas when we've taken care of every last one of the kiddies. Let's get our priorities right, please! This hypothetical letter could have been written by almost any well-meaning person today. In lampooning it, I don't mean to imply that a good case could not be made for giving human children priority I expect it could, and also that a good case could be made the other way. I'm only trying to point the finger at the automatic, unthinking nature of the speciesist double standard. To many people it is simply self-evident, without any discussion, that humans are entitled to special treatment.

92. African Primates At Home See and hear primates on their home turf in East Africa, studied by research scientist M.K. Holder. Some of the primates I study on their home turf in additional links to.     Nonhuman primates .     Tropical Wildlife Conservation, and http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/primates.html

African Primates at Home SEE and HEAR Some of the primates I study on their home turf in East Africa... If you have trouble with audio files, click here Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii Common Chimpanzee (27 K) Scream STATUS: GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: HABITAT RANGE: East African forests LOCOMOTOR TYPE: FOOD: FEATURE: Gorilla gorilla beringei Mountain Gorilla (21 K) SAMPLE VOCALIZATION: (20 K) DISPLAY SOUND: Silverback male STATUS: n =about 650) IUCN status: Vulnerable GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: HABITAT RANGE: Virunga Volcanos LOCOMOTOR TYPE: FOOD: FEATURE: nests for sleeping Cercocebus albigena johnstoni (26 K) STATUS: GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: HABITAT RANGE: Uganda LOCOMOTOR TYPE: FOOD: FEATURE: Colobus badius tephrosceles Red Colobus Monkey GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: HABITAT RANGE: Uganda LOCOMOTOR TYPE: FOOD: FEATURE: Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti Redtail Monkey (28 K) Chirp GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: HABITAT RANGE: Kibale Forest, Uganda LOCOMOTOR TYPE: FOOD: Colobus guereza occindentalis (95 K) Male roar STATUS: GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: HABITAT RANGE: East Africa LOCOMOTOR TYPE: FOOD: FEATURE: Colobus guereza occindentalis (coming) FEATURE: This behavior is very different from red colobus mothers, who rarely let their infants be handled by others.

93. Animals Up Close At Howletts And Port Lympne Wild Animal Park - Through Animal W At Howletts and Port Lympne we have created the largest and most successfulbreeding colony of lowland gorillas in the world 70 at the last count! http://www.howletts.net/gorillas/gorillas.html

Gorillas - Gorilla Home - Gorilla facts - Meet the keepers - Live gorilla cam - Gorilla family - Kifu profile At Howletts and Port Lympne we have created the largest and most successful breeding colony of lowland gorillas in the world - 70 at the last count! Our ultimate intention is to grow our colony here, as well as returning captive-bred gorillas to Africa via our rescue and rehabilitation programme in the Congo. We have now completed the construction of the world's largest family gorilla house at Port Lympne and Djala and his family have moved across from Howletts. Home About Us Webcams Conservation ... Others

94. Animals Up Close At Howletts And Port Lympne Wild Animal Park - Through Animal W Small primates. http://www.howletts.net/sprimates/sprimates.html

Small Primates - Small Primates Home - Siamang - Moloch Gibbon - Javan Langur - Spectacled Langur - Banded Leaf Monkey - Grizzled Leaf Monkey - Samango - Spot-nosed Monkey - De Brazza's Monkey - Diana Monkey - White-faced Saki - Woolly Monkey - Black-capped Capuchin - Gold Lion Tamarin Here you can discover a wealth of information on the 19 species of we keep here. Click on the drop-down menu above to jump straight to the fascinating facts on each. There are eleven species of gibbon, two of which, the Siamang ( Hylobates syndactylus ) and the Moloch Gibbon ( Hylobates moloch ), are kept at Howletts. Gibbons are natives of South-east Asia, from Assam to Indonesia, and are all endangered by the steady destruction of their rain forest habitat. Gibbons live in monogamous family groups; when the offspring reach maturity they normally leave their parents and form new pairs to start families of their own. Males and females are about the same size, though in some species (but not the two at Howletts) they can differ strikingly in colour. Home About Us Webcams Conservation ... Others

95. Powell's Books - Used, New, And Out Of Print An incredible visual journey, primates offers an exciting glimpse ofgorillas, monkeys, apes, and other primates at home in the http://www.powells.com/subsection/NatureStudiesPrimates.html

Technical Books Kids' Books eBooks more search options ... Native North American Nature Studies Nautical Networking New Arrivals Nonfiction General ... view all sections... Primates There are 96 books in this aisle. Browse the aisle by Title by Author by Price See recently arrived used books in this aisle. Featured Titles in Nature Studies -Primates: Page 1 of 4 next Used Trade Paper List Price $14.95 Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall From Powells.com By any standard, Jane Goodall is one of this century's great natural scientists. Her monumental discoveries about chimpanzee have forced the Western world to reevaluate its basic assumptions about human identity as well as what role humans should play in... read more about this title check for other copies Used Trade Paper List Price $14.00 Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts Powells.com Staff Pick "Though this book is truly heartbreaking and may at times lessen your faith in humanity, it is a very important book for anyone interested in the fascinating fields of language acquisition and animal intelligence, or for anyone simply intrigued by...

96. Born Free Foundation's Primate Project, Conserving Primates In Their Natural Env . Coltan Boom, Gorilla Bust. The Impact of Coltan Mining on Gorillasand other Wildlife in Eastern DR Congo. A report by Ian Redmond http://www.bornfree.org.uk/coltan/

NEWS PROJECTS EDUCATION GET INVOLVED ... EXTRAS Coltan Boom, Gorilla Bust The Impact of Coltan Mining on Gorillas and other Wildlife in Eastern DR Congo A report by Ian Redmond - Wildlife consultant and chairman of the Ape Alliance commissioned by the Born Free Foundation and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Europe. Coltan , a metalic mineral used in things from mobile phones to jet engines, has become headline news recently, and for all the wrong reasons. Recent price rises of this ore has lead to wide scale unregulated mining of it in the forests of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the same forests that were home to 86% of the worlds eastern lowland gorillas. The forests are being destroyed and gorillas are being killed and snared for ‘bushmeat’ to feed the hundreds of miners and to sell at markets. Recent reports indicate that up to 90% of eastern lowland gorillas may have been killed in the last 3 years. Fears are that without immediate political action, they may be headed towards an inescapable extinction. Born Free and Dian Fossey Gorrila Fund commissioned a report by Ian Redmond, Wildlife Consultant and Ape Alliance Chair, into the trade in coltan in DRC and the desperate consequences for the gorillas.

97. Bushmeat Project; Save The Great Apes; Chimps And Gorillas Cameroon, April. Redmond, I., 1989, Trade In gorillas And Other PrimatesIn The Peoples Republic Of Congo, IPPL. Redmond, I.,1995 http://bushmeat.net/afcrisis.htm

CONTACT: BUSHMEAT@BIOSYNERGY.ORG Bushmeat Home Bibliography Page Other Sections of the Bibliography About Wildlife Hunting About Wildlife Bushmeat Commerce About Central African Wildlife Conservation WILDLIFE HUNTING IN AFRICA: A Working Bibliography on Bushmeat Commerce The Biosynergy Institute, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 You are invited to use and contribute to our bibliography. Please send us titles and brief annotations describing the materials and how to access them. Ideas for expanding or modifying the topics are also welcome. This is an open collaborative effort every relevant input will be considered and included. Section 3: THE AFRICAN BUSHMEAT CRISIS Commercial Bushmeat Industry Hennessey, A. B., 1995, A Study of the Meat Trade in Ouesso, Republic of Congo. GTZ, Brazzaville. Njiforti, H. L., 1996, Preferences and present demand for bushmeat in North Cameroon: some implications for wildlife conservation, Environmental Conservation, 23(2): 149. Bushmeat Crisis Reports Ammann, K., 1994, The bushmeat babies, BBC Wildlife, Oct.: 16-24. Ammann, K., 1995, Logging and the Bushmeat Trade, Report to World Society for the Protection of Animals.

98. Primate Facts Apes are all Old World primates. The four largest speciesgorillas,orangutans, chimpanzees and banabos, are called great apes. http://mazuri.purinamills.com/funprimate.htm

Going Ape Over Primates... Fun Facts on Monkeys and Mankind One of the first stops for visitors at every zoo is the "monkey house." Without exception, humans of all ages are continuously fascinated by the antics of our closest non-human relatives. Aside from their uninhibited exuberance and hilarious antics, people are captivated by the similarities of primatesparticularly the apesand us. Their ability to mimic human facial expressions and behaviors frequently prompts on-lookers to "ape" right back at their caged counterparts...to the delight of both. A Culturally Diverse Group When people think of primates they usually picture cute little chimps swinging through the trees. However like humans, primates are a diverse group, ranging in size from 8 oz. pygmy marmosets to 600 lb. gorillas. The mammalian order of primates is made up of 233 species. All primates are agile climbers that grasp with their hands and feet. They have flat nails, not claws, and have eyes on the front of their heads and binacular vision for depth perception. Great Apes Fourteen primate species are apes. Apes are all Old World primates. The four largest speciesgorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and banabos, are called great apes. Smaller gibbons and siamangs are classified as lesser apes.

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