ReviewScience advances2017
Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter.
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333 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,431 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Primates and disability: Behavioral flexibility and implications for resilience to environmental change.American journal of primatology · 2025Pooled it
- Zoonotic pathogens in wild Asian primates: a systematic review highlighting research gaps.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Pooled it
- Does habitat protection status matter? Insights from a tropical primate community in Northeast Bangladesh.Primates; journal of primatology · 2026Article
- A curated genome-scale nucleotide diversity panel of non-human primates.Genome biology · 2026Article
- Does energy minimisation constrain behavioural plasticity? Long-term activity budgets of a model folivore-frugivore.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Diet-Induced Bloat in Confiscated Capped Langurs (Trachypithecus pileatus): Clinical Management and Conservation Implications.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Article
- Modeling the effects of climate risk on primates globally: New perspectives on conservation priorities.Science advances · 2026Article
- Microbial Variability in Zoo-Housed Alaotran Gentle Lemurs: Host-Associated Factors and Environmental Influences.American journal of primatology · 2026Article
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- Influence of Vegetation Structure on Lemur Recolonization of Post-Fire Habitats in Northwestern Madagascar.American journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Chocolate Bushbabies: Cocoa Agroforests as Habitat for Galagos (Galagidae) in the Ashanti Region, Ghana.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Behavioral thermoregulation in relation to humidity in wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata yakui): the significance of semi-shade.Primates; journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Estimation of the population size of the northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) in Vu Quang National Park, Vietnam.Primates; journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Sources of Variation in Fecal Haptoglobin in a Population of Wild Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus imitator).American journal of primatology · 2026Article
- New Host and Geographic Record of Lemuricola nycticebi in the Bengal Slow Loris.Acta parasitologica · 2026Article
- Searching for the forest ghosts: group counts and polyspecific associations of the endangered Rungwecebus kipunji in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania.Primates; journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Zoonotic and Anthroponotic Plasmodium spp. Circulation between Wild Primates and Indigenous Community, Peruvian Amazon, 2007-2020.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Behavioral Variability of Endangered Northern Pig-Tailed Macaques in a Degraded Mosaic Habitat in Northeast Bangladesh.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Mantled howler monkeys avoid humans in response to both worker presence and noise intensity in an agroforestry system.Primates; journal of primatology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods, cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution, biology, behavior, and the threat of emerging diseases. They are an essential component of tropical biodiversity, contributing to forest regeneration and ecosystem health. Current information shows the existence of 504 species in 79 genera distributed in the Neotropics, mainland Africa, Madagascar, and Asia. Alarmingly, ~60% of primate species are now threatened with extinction and ~75% have declining populations. This situation is the result of escalating anthropogenic pressures on primates and their habitats-mainly global and local market demands, leading to extensive habitat loss through the expansion of industrial agriculture, large-scale cattle ranching, logging, oil and gas drilling, mining, dam building, and the construction of new road networks in primate range regions. Other important drivers are increased bushmeat hunting and the illegal trade of primates as pets and primate body parts, along with emerging threats, such as climate change and anthroponotic diseases. Often, these pressures act in synergy, exacerbating primate population declines. Given that primate range regions overlap extensively with a large, and rapidly growing, human population characterized by high levels of poverty, global attention is needed immediately to reverse the looming risk of primate extinctions and to attend to local human needs in sustainable ways. Raising global scientific and public awareness of the plight of the world's primates and the costs of their loss to ecosystem health and human society is imperative.
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