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In a rainy, swampy rainforest in northeastern Costa Rica, female Geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) go about their daily lives, blissfully unaware that they’re what humans call “an endangered species.” For them life consists of traveling through the forest, foraging on ripe fruit, caring for their offspring, and avoiding aggressive males.
The reason they can enjoy this relative peace is because they’re lucky enough to live on the protected land of a biological field station. The station was set up when landowner Hiner Ramirez’s daughters learned about the urgent need to conserve rainforest and encouraged their father to convert the family’s land — which he used to harvest trees for shipping pallets — into a protected reserve. He approached professors who were teaching at a nearby field station and made plans to set up a similar research and teaching facility.
The reserve is still owned by the Ramirez family and includes 1,000 hectares (about four square miles) of primary forest, secondary forest and a mosaic of pasture land and plantation. Stands of exotic beechwood (Gmelina arborea) continued to be harvested, but the native trees that were originally planted for harvesting were left to regenerate, and the former plantation areas have been made available to the wildlife.
Over multiple field seasons I spent there from 2005-2011, the shy female monkeys with infants became accustomed to my presence. I grew to love crawling in the swamps (which I frequently fell into), and racked up an impressive number of painful bites from inch-long bullet ants. My colleagues and I also discovered many unique behaviors in these monkeys. We observed several individuals using sticks to scratch themselves, a behavior that hasn’t been seen at other sites. We saw some other surprising behaviors, too, such as crossing forest gaps and sitting on the ground, an unusual behavior for an arboreal species.
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Half the 262 species of monkeys in the world are threatened with extinction. Fifty-eight of the threatened species live in South and Central America, 46 in Asia and 26 in Africa.
Of these, 24 monkeys are critically endangered, with an extremely high chance of soon becoming extinct in the wild.
These endangered monkeys have recently declined drastically in number, or already have precariously low populations. The list below gives 14 examples of the most endangered monkeys in the world.
South America, where the largest number of threatened monkey species exists, also has more monkey species than any other continent. Brazil alone is home to 40 threatened monkeys, far more than any other country in the world. Brazil's monkeys include seven species that are critically endangered. Columbia and Peru are other South American countries with ten or more species of threatened monkeys.
Several countries in Asia have high concentrations of endangered monkeys. Indonesia has 20 threatened species and Vietnam, China and India each have at least ten. Among Asia's 65 monkey species, 71 percent are considered threatened, including eight that are critically endangered.
Threatened species also account for 45 percent of Africa's monkeys, including four critically endangered. Concentrations of threatened African monkeys occur in Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast.
Roloway Monkey Cercopithecus diana roloway
C�te d'Ivoire, Ghana — Roloway monkeys could already be extinct in Ghana, and nearly so in Ivory Coast. They're no longer in many Upper Guinean forests, including parks where they were recently thought to exist. Roloways have been sought after for commercial bushmeat, leading to their near demise.
Pennant's Red Colobus Procolobus pennantii pennantii
Equatorial Guinea (Bioko Island) — Pennant's red colobus monkeys only live on Bioko Island near Africa's west coast. Their population declined by over 40 percent in two decades after a luxury bushmeat market opened on the island. Hunters killed about 550 red colobus for bushmeat in 2004. Although the endangered monkeys live only in special reserves on a small part of the island, they're not protected enough to prevent the massacre.
Tana River Red Colobus Procolobus rufomitratus
Kenya — Forest patches alongside a 60 kilometre stretch of Kenya's lower Tana River are the only place where Tana River red colobus live. Less than 1,000 of the monkeys remain. An influx of people and farming has escalated since 1990, leaving only half of the original riparian forest habitat and degrading the rest. Another monkey that's also restricted to these forests, Tana River mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus), is just as scarce and endangered.
Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Procolobus badius waldroni
C�te d'Ivoire, Ghana — Biologists have extensively and repeatedly searched for Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey since 1993, but have failed to see a single one alive. They found one skin in 2002 in the hands of an Ivory Coast hunter. If not already gone, this red colobus is on the verge of extinction.
Kipunji Rungwecebus kipunji
Tanzania — Scientists first became aware of kipunji in 2003, which turned out to be not only a new species but also a new genus of monkey. Fewer than 1500 kipungi survive in two mountain forests separated by 350 kilometres. One site has less than 200 individuals. Their continued existence is threatened by hunting and tree cutting.
Pig-tailed Langur Simias concolor
Indonesia (Mentawai Islands) — Two subspecies of this monkey, also known as simakobu, live only on an island cluster off the west coast of Sumatra. Forests for this tree-dweller are being logged and people are moving into the area, causing its numbers to decline. These changes are also endangering three other primates unique to the Mentawai island forests, a gibbon, a macaque and another langur.
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