Critter News

JULY 22, 2010

Caught at the airport in Mexico City, he had 18 of these monkeys and two of them were dead. Tags: wildlife smuggling mexico primates endangered species.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. This is seriously weird stuff. Who suffers?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Their mission is to raise awareness on threatened and endangered species through their fun and contemporary apparel. Did you know that they are more closely related to lemurs than they are to monkeys? Even though they look a bit more like a primate! I chose the Philippine Tarsier Tee, which is a very fun shirt indeed!

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Lemurs Philippines Primates Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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