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“Most Primate Species Threatened With Extinction”

Most Primate Species Threatened With Extinction

Forest regeneration through seed dispersal.          Photo credit: Alain Houle

Joanna Lambert co-authored landmark research covered recently in the New York Times. Our fellow primates are in dire straits: … In a study of unprecedented scope, a team of 31 primatologists has analyzed every known species of primate to judge how they are faring. The news for man’s closest animal relatives is not good…  The study itself was published in Science Advances journal.  The Boulder Daily Camera also carried the story. (Our “Department of Biological Anthropology” is on the map now! :)