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Primatology; Thursday, Fourth Period [ 03/24 ].
"Welcome back, children," Jane, feeling a bit better this week, gave the student a smile and a nod, chalk in hand when class was ready to begin. "I hope you enjoyed the film from last week. I know such media presentations can hardly take the place as a good old-fashioned intriguing lecture and all, but hopefully you'll forgive me that one indiscretion. Today, I'd like to discuss some of the topics in the film, especially the topic of the conservation of both primates and their environments, and why it is so important.
"Some of the most common threats to primates, and many more other animals and environments, for that matter, are deforestation, forest fragmentation, monkey drives, and primate hunting for use in medicines, as pets, and for food. Large-scale tropical forest clearing is widely regarded as the process that most threatens primates. More than 90% of primate species occur in tropical forests.The main cause of forest loss is clearing for agriculture, although commercial logging, subsistence harvesting of timber, mining, and dam construction contribute to tropical forest depletion too.
"There's also a consideration of population. Larger primates are much easier targets for hunters and poachers, but since their development sexually is different, they don't breed as often as littler primates, and so there aren't as many of them.
"Primatologists have an incredibly important job in promoting the conservation of primate species and habitats. It is our job to get to know these wonderful creatures and their fascinating habitats, to see the benefit in studying them and to see how studying them can help us learn about ourselves, as well as a great many other scientific developments in nature and the animal world.
"So, today will seem very simple, but the topic is so very important. I'd like to just discuss why you think it's important to help conserve the primate environment. Or perhaps you don't. If you don't, I'm afraid you're quite wrong about that, but if you've got thoughts on why not, well, that's all part of a discussion, I suppose. Are there things you yourself can do to help this primate plight? Or is it too large of a problem to stop?
[[ OCD is up!! ]]
"Some of the most common threats to primates, and many more other animals and environments, for that matter, are deforestation, forest fragmentation, monkey drives, and primate hunting for use in medicines, as pets, and for food. Large-scale tropical forest clearing is widely regarded as the process that most threatens primates. More than 90% of primate species occur in tropical forests.The main cause of forest loss is clearing for agriculture, although commercial logging, subsistence harvesting of timber, mining, and dam construction contribute to tropical forest depletion too.
"There's also a consideration of population. Larger primates are much easier targets for hunters and poachers, but since their development sexually is different, they don't breed as often as littler primates, and so there aren't as many of them.
"Primatologists have an incredibly important job in promoting the conservation of primate species and habitats. It is our job to get to know these wonderful creatures and their fascinating habitats, to see the benefit in studying them and to see how studying them can help us learn about ourselves, as well as a great many other scientific developments in nature and the animal world.
"So, today will seem very simple, but the topic is so very important. I'd like to just discuss why you think it's important to help conserve the primate environment. Or perhaps you don't. If you don't, I'm afraid you're quite wrong about that, but if you've got thoughts on why not, well, that's all part of a discussion, I suppose. Are there things you yourself can do to help this primate plight? Or is it too large of a problem to stop?
[[ OCD is up!! ]]
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