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If you've heard of black crested macaques or the Yaki monkey, it is probably this one:
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This black crested macaque became famous in 2011 when the photographer David Slater was taking photos in the jungle of Sulawesi Indonesia where black crested macaques are indigenous fauna. Slater was not the photographer who captured this photo, however. It was the macaque who has since been commonly called Naruto who took its own photograph on Slater's camera. The famous monkey selfie sparked a copyright lawsuit brought by PETA onto Slater, which was settled in 2017 with an agreement that Slater would donate a percentage of any profits gained by the pictures Naruto took to organizations that protect this species in the wild.
For the millions who enjoyed Naruto's selfies online, the story ends there. For Naruto and the Yaki the story continues. The black crested macaque is critically endangered. Slater's website says he donates 10% of the proceeds of all "monkey selfie" merchandise to "a monkey conservation project in Sulawesi", and while he does not specify which conservation project he supports, there is one I know of that does incredible work.
Selamatkan Yaki is an operation with a huge impact. The Yaki is one of the most endangered primates in the world, and it can be difficult to gauge just how many of them are out there. This is where biodiversity monitoring comes in to produce the data needed for effective conservation protocol. A pilot study was conducted in Tangkoko Nature Reserve, which has created the blueprint for surveying the entire province using camera traps and remote sensing to observe the Yaki and their threats over time.
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Using the data gathered from monitoring, Selamatkan Yaki collaborated with the government agency for natural resource conservation to create a Species Action Plan (SAP). This species action plan is not only an evidence based conservation plan designed to save the Yaki, but all the other species that share its forest home. Establishing the Yaki as a flagship species is crucial as this charismatic monkey is just one of many species that is not found anywhere else in the world.
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One of the major threats Yaki face, like many other primate species, is hunting for wildlife trafficking and the bush meat trades. While hunting the Yaki is illegal, it takes a true culture shift to keep endangered animals out of traps and cages. Selamatkan Yaki has developed both community conservation and environmental education programs designed to unite local communities in protecting the species. The community conservation program involves surveys conducted since 2007 so that long term data on human-animal relationships can be tracked to best identify community conservation methods. This data is used in the environmental education program which introduces information on biodiversity and conservation to school curriculum and provides research opportunities and scholarships for post secondary students to contribute to conservation.
Selamatkan Yaki understands that it isn't enough to have a team of people dedicated to saving the black crested macaque-- the more people who care and help the better. Everyone has a role to play in conservation, but right now so many people outside Indonesia have only ever seen the black crested macaque once, in a photo online. That's why I'm partnering with Selamatkan Yaki to spread information about the work they do and the species they protect. To learn more about Selamatkan Yaki you can click the links in this post, and stay tuned for more on the black crested macaque.
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Cute!
This orangutan had lots of fun with the sunglasses and the zookeepers managed to get her to trade the sunglasses for some leafy greens when she was done with them. Items like this are not ideal in primate enclosures because they can break and/or ingest pieces, so the orangutan got to have her fun and (not) eat it too.
THIS IS THE CUTEST SHIT IVE EVER SEENNNN
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We made it onto gorilla heritage posts folks! 🎉🎉🎉
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Newborn gorilla reacting to a cold stethoscope
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Brehm's Tierleben. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Wilhelm Kuhnert. 1922 edition.
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Mod E and mod J both have some really big life stuff that is taking up our time and attention. We are excited about our new opportunities but this means is-the-primate-vid-cute will be taking a break. Ask box and submissions are still open for now- if they fill like crazy we might close them so it's manageable when we return.
We are both so proud of the blog and of all of ya'll contributing to the education of ethical primate care and content. Please continue to be ambassadors for primates! ❤️
If you still want primate content and you don't already: follow mod J on @bignosebaby !! That blog will continue to run and you can send your burning questions there for mod J! Mod J will continue to rate primate content but since they are only one person we ask that you only ask them to rate media that has been posted on tumblr, and submit it either by @ing them on a reblog of the post or by directly sending the post via messaging to bignosebaby.
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Squirrel monkey By: Unknown photographer From: Disney's Worlds of Nature 1965
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🦍The primate tournament list of candidates has been finalised! Polls will start going up soon!🦧
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Thank you to everyone who submitted a species! Here is the full written list:
Basal primates (non-simian primates, including Strepsirrhini and Tarsiiformes)
†Notharctus (Notharctus tenebrosus)
Calabar angwantibo (Arctocebus calabarensis)
West African potto (Perodicticus potto)
Red slender loris (Loris tardigradus)
Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis)
Pygmy slow loris (Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus)
Senegal bushbaby (Galago senegalensis)
Brown greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus)
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)
†Archaeoindris (Archaeoindris fontoynontii)
†Megaladapis (Megaladapis madagascariensis)
Madame berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae)
Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)
Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta)
Pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus)
New world monkeys (Platyrrhini)
Wied’s marmoset (Callithrix kuhlii)
Goeldi’s marmoset (Callimico goeldii)
Bearded emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator subgrisescens)
Golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)
Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator)
Central American squirrel monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)
Gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus)
Bald uakari (Cacajao calvus)
Madidi titi monkey (Plecturocebus aureipalatii)
Atlantic titi monkey (Callicebus personatus)
Black bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas)
White-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia)
Colombian red howler (Alouatta seniculus)
Brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus)
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)
Yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda)
Old world monkeys (Cercopithecidae)
Mantled guereza (Colobus guereza)
Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii)
Nepal gray langur (Semnopithecus schistaceus)
Silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatux)
Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)
Red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus)
Collared mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus)
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)
Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)
Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas)
Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
Gelada (Theropithecus gelada)
Common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas)
Bale mountains vervet (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis)
De brazza’s monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus)
Apes (Hominoidea)
Lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)
Pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)
Kloss’s gibbon (Hylobates klossii)
Northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys)
Siamang (symphalangus syndactylus)
†Junzi (Junzi imperialis)
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
†Gigantopithecus (Gigantopithecus blacki)
†Dryopithecus (Dryopithecus fontani)
Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Bonobo (Pan paniscus)
†Australopithecus (Australopithecus afarensis)
†Panranthropus (Panranthropus boisei)
†Flores hobbit (Homo floresiensis)
†Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis)
The first set of polls will go up as soon as I have finished writing the descriptions! In the meantime, I would appreciate if you could share this tournament around- it won’t be much of a tournament if there aren’t that many people voting! In going down the research rabbit hole I’ve found so many interesting species and stories, and I promise learning about them here will be worth your time!
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Update
Mod E and mod J both have some really big life stuff that is taking up our time and attention. We are excited about our new opportunities but this means is-the-primate-vid-cute will be taking a break. Ask box and submissions are still open for now- if they fill like crazy we might close them so it's manageable when we return.
We are both so proud of the blog and of all of ya'll contributing to the education of ethical primate care and content. Please continue to be ambassadors for primates! ❤️
If you still want primate content and you don't already: follow mod J on @bignosebaby !! That blog will continue to run and you can send your burning questions there for mod J! Mod J will continue to rate primate content but since they are only one person we ask that you only ask them to rate media that has been posted on tumblr, and submit it either by @ing them on a reblog of the post or by directly sending the post via messaging to bignosebaby.
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Beautiful work!
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Mandrill Moments in gouache inspired by @is-the-primate-vid-cute
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Rating: Cute!
This video was originally posted on instagram by lwiro_primates, a rescue organization in the DRC that rescues, rehabs, and releases primates like Kailo back into the wild. In the original caption it is explained that Kailo is a victim of wildlife trafficking for the pet trade; his family was killed so he could be sold as a pet. The person you see in this video is a professional who is wearing a mask to lower the risk of disease transmission between them, and will act as his surrogate mother until he is able to join a new chimpanzee troupe. In the meantime, he will be introduced to other orphans of his species to start building the bonds and skills he will need as an adult in the wild.
After a long trip by plane, boat, and car, Kailo finally gets the hug he needed. 
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What’s this mischievous gorillas secret? How does he look so devious? The key is knowing your angles: he’s actually upside down!
While it’s hard to tell from the close cropping, it’s likely that this gorilla is lying down and leaning back, making his face lit from the bottom by the overhead lights. His facial expression is neutral and relaxed, but from the angle he is at his features shift from gravity to look more like a smirk.
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Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)
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What do monkeys think of us and/or other monkey species? Do they recognize us as a different species, or do they consider those close to them (reserve caretaker and similar) to be part of their community? I heard cats see us as fellow adult cats so now I'm wondering about other animals.
While we can't definitely tell what other primates are thinking, it appears that many of them recognize us as being like them. They appear to recognize that humans are not the same species as them, but depending on their relationships with others of their species and humans may consider themselves to have more or less in common with us. For example, chimpanzees raised as pets essentially grow up believing that they are related to humans. The chimp may recognize that they do not have everything in common with the humans around them, but if they are raised only having relationships with humans they will consider their community to be made up of people. Similarly, wild and acclimated primates would not consider humans to be as close to them.
This is largely speculative, but the differences between species are largely socially perceived when it comes to inter-animal relations and that's about as much as I can say without overreaching too broadly.
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This is a tufted ground squirrel. IUCN Vulnerable to extinction and endemic to the island of Borneo/Kalimantan.
It has the largest tail to body size ratio of any mammal, with the tail being 130% the size of its body.
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I just think everyone should see it
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Brehm's Tierleben. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Gustav Mützel. 1922 edition.
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