7.) Endangered Primates - Dayton S

     Primates are key to tropical biodiversity and happen to be the most similar species to humans. This means apart from obvious factors, they are a translation of wild humans. Their genome is so alike to ours that they often are subject to testing for numerous products before being released for public consumption. Even so closely that certain monkeys may receive test vaccinations and medicine. For them to be so similar to us it isn’t an unfair assessment that their struggles in nature could be foreshadowing what will be in the future for us.



    60% of Non-Human primates are currently threatened with extinction and 75% are seeing population declination. One of the largest contributors to this situation is of course human industrialization. This is less concerning though for our primates. This factor has contributed to many species endangerment and population declines. One of the most important discoveries in contribution to the non-human primate population decline, is the effects happening consequently through the climate as well as disease. With primates biodiversity being so alike to ours, it is only a matter of time before this issue becomes our own as humans. Disease can easily mutate from primates to humans. This is not helped by the fact several civilizations will often hunt and eat primates, which is where the human HIV virus originated. We can use the primates as an early warning to what will happen to us in time. The pollution and climate change will affect us much like it has already to the primates. Change is needed not only to save the primates but to prevent similar instances from occurring in the human population.


Source: NCBI.gov

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  1. BobOctober 28, 2021 at 12:23 PM

    I have a fascination with one of our primate cousins, the lemurs. We need to give them the few million years they need to evolve into whatever their destiny is...
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  2. yenne schepersOctober 29, 2021 at 9:18 AM

    Your blog is well written and you gave your own opinion on the subject. Yes, we are very similar to primates because when we want to know if a certain medicine or vaccine will work on humans, we test them first on primates to see the reaction. This could also be turned the other way: the bad way. When a primate develops a disease, the chances that humans will develop this disease are pretty big. So we have to be careful with our relationship with the primates.

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  3. Natasha ProvinseNovember 1, 2021 at 10:12 AM

    Dayton, I think your post was very well written. I like how you compare the destiny of the primates as a means of explaining what could be our future. It’s crucial that we are aware that everything living will be effected by climate change, but it’s especially negative the way primates will be effected because they are so important to our existence as humans.

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