Apr 27, 2021 · All great apes and gibbons are at risk of extinction. Their primary threats are habitat loss, killing or capture, and disease—whose devastating effects are all compounded by the complex ways they interact.

The hunting of apes is not a new threat: fossils and archaeological remains show that people have hunted all ape taxa since they started living in ape habitat. In Asia, hunting by humans appears to have played a part in the decline of the orangutan after the late Pleistocene, which ended about 11,700 years ago, and gibbon skeletons were

Aug 11, 2018 · Chimpanzees are the only great apes known to engage in organized, communal hunts for larger animals. The creatures they target are usually always mammals. Some of these animals are hunted on the ground whilst others are hunted in the treetops.

Apr 15, 2015 · (Phys.org)—Members of a troop of chimpanzees living at a site called Fongoli in southeastern Senegal have been observed by scientists fashioning tree branches into spears and using them to...

Chapter 3 outlines the history of ape hunting as well as the scale and consequences of the trade in ape meat and parts in Africa and Southeast Asia. It details the socioeconomic drivers of wild meat hunting and, due to availability of information, focuses more on great apes than gibbons.

Even when an ape is not killed, ape hunting can have long-term consequences for survivors, including injury, and psychological and socioecological effects. Local ape decline or extinction can reduce seed dispersal, which is critical to maintaining tree species diversity and ecosystem health.

Nov 17, 2021 · As the wilderness has opened up, hunting has increased; great apes have either disappeared or learned to fear and avoid humans. As Kühl says, “It tells you how much the world has changed in...

No fewer than 22 times, researchers documented wild chimpanzees on an African savanna fashioning sticks into "spears" to hunt small primates called lesser bush babies. In each case a chimpanzee...

Today, researchers study how chimpanzees cooperate with each other during hunting and other activities. Humans and chimpanzees both hunt animals for meat. Meat provides important nutrients for chimps that are rare in plants. A little meat can go a long way.

Feb 23, 2007 · Chimpanzees in Senegal are regularly making and using spears to hunt other primates -- without human assistance -- according to research led by an Iowa State University anthropologist. That study,...