Morphology- The Japanese Macaque has different types of fur color from mainly brown to grey and also yellow but mostly brown. The primate has a pink face that also looks very human like. The male Macaque is always bigger and weights more than the female, which we may call this sexual dimorphism. It is interesting how a Japanese Macaque who lives in the northern and much colder are weights even more than the macaques that live in the warmer are. They have a very short tail, which mainly old world primates have. In addition, the Japanese Macaque male has a shorter lifespan but the female tends to live for a couple of more years.
Range- The primate location is common sense from the name they were given they live in Japan on the islands of Japan, which are called on Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and the islands of Awaji, Shodo, Yaku, Kinkazan. The weather there is very cold this species live in the northern parts of the island. In the southern part, there is an island called Yakushima there they have their own subspecies called the M. f. yakui. It is interesting how the Japanese Macaque have been studied longer than many other primates and their numbers are big also since they have lost the fear and aren’t shy around humans their numbers grow and continue to grow. In addition, these trees and forest are very important for the Japanese Macaque
Habitat- The habitat of the Japanese Macaque varies because in the northern island where the primates live very cold conditions and in the southern parts of the islands in consist of sub-tropical forest. In the southern, the trees remain green through the year in the southern areas rain falls occasionally and it also gets warm, and in the northern Japan where it can become quite chilly, the trees...
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Conservation Status- The Japanese Macaque conservation status is least concerned the only threat is by farmers kill the Japanese macaque to prevent agriculture damage. In addition, since the macaques have lost the fear in human their numbers have grown bigger it requires more careful population management.
Conservation threats- The only conservation threats Japanese Macaque are facing is the loss of their habit since Japan is expanding and they are cutting the forest and many macaques around the area are dying. Another threat against the macaque is by farmers who kill the macaque because the macaque raid the farms and destroy the crops of the farmers other than that those are the only threats against the macaque but they aren’t endangered because since they have lost the fear of humans and their behavior change their numbers grow.
I visited the Sacramento Zoo during the afternoon of April 21, 2017. The weather was wonderful, sunny, warm, and there was a slight breeze. It got a bit more breezy the longer I was there. Visiting the zoo to observe primates allowed me to become a little more aware of how primatologists study primates. Even though I’ve been to many different zoos several different times, I never realized how many primates were associated with the zoos, as well as the variety of primates in the zoos. The Sacramento Zoo has eight different primates, all in different classifications, superfamilies, or subfamilies. While observing the Chimpanzees, White-Handed Gibbon, Mongoose Lemur, White-Faced Saki, and the Wolf’s Guenon I could see the differences
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The Mbuti pygmies of the Ituri rainforest are a fascinating people. They need their forest for food, shelter, and protection from other peoples of the world. How the Mbuti managed to survive the conquests of the Spanish and the English is beyond our knowledge. Their dense, uncharted forest has kept them a secret to many people to this day. The Mbuti probably are the most unchanged people still living on earth. As long as the Mbuti's forest isn't destroyed by the world's greed for money, they will more than likely remain there for decades to come.
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Kappeler et al (2003) suggest that life history variables also should be included within the socioecological model due to the inferences and conclusions that can be devised of the behavioural ecology of primates. The framework is under constant remodeling due to the new challenges that arise as the variation being observed does not fit within the model’s predictions (Janson, C., 2000). This is likely due to the role of the environment and its significant impact on studies due to the restriction on study sites and opportunities and the unlikelihood of having been able to study primates with no human influence if possible are under high security. And even the impact of the physical environment has been shown to impact the social organization of primate groups (Fiore, A. D., et al, 1994). There is also further research that suggests the significance of the role of infanticide as a reproductive strategy in many primate species (Van Schaik, C. P. et al., 2000). This action is used by the males of the species to eliminate the offspring that pose risk to the male’s reproductive success by extending the time of female
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