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Do Primates Have a Future?

 
 
grant
13:43 / 11.10.02
One in Three Primate Species Face Extinction, says new study.

New evidence of the peril facing the world's apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates, with one in every three now endangered with extinction, is revealed in a new report -- The World's Top 25 Most Endangered Primates – 2002 released today by Conservation International (CI) and the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN-The World Conservation Union. Primate species and sub-species classified as "critically endangered" and "endangered" jumped nearly 63 percent from 120 to 195 since the initial report was issued in January 2000.


Bear in mind that we are primates.
Are we outcompeting our cousins? Or are they reacting to environmental stresses that will soon be affecting... us?
 
 
The Cyclist
17:55 / 11.10.02
I don't think we out-competing them i think we are eating them (not me personally), certainly in Africa anyway, so i am not sure that we will be affected by the same "environmental stresses", unless of course you get really hungry....
 
 
Lurid Archive
19:50 / 11.10.02
Bear in mind that we are primates.
Are we outcompeting our cousins?


Yes of course we are. There are lots of things wrong with our species but in terms of survival and proliferation we have, up to now, been very successful. Much as this saddens me, our cousins have not.
 
 
kagemaru
21:21 / 12.10.02
Much of the competition is not _direct_ competition.
Primates are innocent bystanders killed by what's by all means the geological activity of humans, our environmental impact as a species: we are strongly modifying the environment, and as a consequence we put our cousins in danger.
But it's incidental.
Not much of a justification, you say, and I have to agree.
The problem is, if you view the problem from the environmental modification/deterioration point of view, then we can say we are competing with ourselves.
And we're losing.
 
  
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