Tag Archives: primates
Will Madagascar’s wildlife survive the locust plague?
Madagascar is in the midst of the worst locust infestation for 60 years. Over half the island is affected and farmers who remember the last plague have given up farming as they know what is about to come. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimate that 60% of the country’s residents will be hit with food shortages and [...]
Cautious hope for rare Indonesian macaques
Researchers are beginning to have tentative hopes that numbers of a rare black macaque of Indonesia has stopped declining and populations levels are beginning to grow again. A recent study suggests that populations of the Sulawesi black macaques are heading back to levels last seen 20 years ago. The researchers from the US and Indonesia [...]
4 species of Borneo slow loris now recognised
A new paper by an international team has led to a new species of slow loris being named and two species that were previously thought as sub species being promoted to species in their own rights. There are now 4 species of slow loris found in Borneo and the Philippines with experts predicting that more species [...]
Chimps have a taste for pick your own
I’m of an age when one of the popular family days-out when growing up was pick-your-own. We’d all head off to the farm to pick fruit and vegetables on a day out. It now seems that chimpanzees in Africa have caught on to the craze and are heading to farms to choose their fruit and [...]
BBC documentary leads to campaign to end trade in slow loris
After hosting a BBC Natural World documentary revealing the plight of the slow loris in Indonesia, a top primatologist has started a campaign to cease the trade in this particular threatened primate. Anna Nekaris, the host, is Professor in Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes University and specialises in lorises, nocturnal mammals and Asian primates. In the programme Jungle [...]