(QUIZ 12) Flashcards
According to the IUCN 2012 Primates in Peril report, 54% of primate taxa are classified in a threatened for extrinction category.
True
According to IUCN conservationists, the leading causes of primate extinction include: habitat destruction, illegal wildlife trade, commercial bush meat hunting
True
The leading causes of primate extinction are driven by natural processes.
False
Mittermeier argues that the best “flagship” species for saving the tropical rainforest biome are primates.
True
A “flagship” species is one whose conservation improves the likelihood of the conservation of a biome.
True
Three excellent primate “flagship” conservation candidates in the Philippines include: galagos, tarsiers, crab-eating macaques.
False
Thanks to the lengthy juvenile development, social learning requirements, and loss of habitat … primate conservation is not based on captive animal re-introduction.
True
Adoption of classroom primate mascots can enhance local conservation success.
True
In some places, more than one flagship species should be used. For example, Madagascar has numerous microhabitats and multiple primates should be added as flagship species to the current ring-tailed lemur flagship.
True
If diners knew about the conservation status and adorable faces of crowned lemurs, they might think twice before eating them in luxury restaurants.
True
According to The Center for Biological Diversity, the natural “background” rate of extinction occurs at a rate of one to five species per year. Current estimates suggest that we are now losing species at a rate 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural background rate – literally, dozens of extinct every day
True
The Amboseli vervet population provides an excellent example of human caused extinction. This is due to the fact that fever trees have been chopped down in order to construct housing.
False
The life cycle of fever trees has an impact on vervet population numbers and the demise of the acacias can, at least temporarily, favor leopards.
True
Vervet reluctance to leave a the Amboseli grassland habitat, even in the face of predator pressure, reflects a strong preference for the familiar.
True
It is fair to say that India has a complex relationship with nonhuman primates that pits traditional Hindu values against the stresses of modern living.
True
The God Hanuman is represented today solely by the sacred langur.
False
One of the best stories about Hanuman, the Monkey God, is that he chased the sun across the sky everyday because he thought that it was ripened fruit!
True
Tolerance of monkeys in India is a product of the traditional Hindu reverence of Hanuman – monkeys are the personification of this god
True
In India, rhesus macaques and sacred langurs are found in wild, agricultural, sacred, and urban spaces.
True
Temple monkeys in India are provisioned and soon populations expand outside of the temples and into neighborhoods. Their population sizes can then expand beyond human tolerance.
True
Sacred langurs, like most folivores, are picky-eaters restricted to arboreal habitats.
False
Normally sacred langurs form M:FF social groups. However, when population size becomes too large, sacred langurs adopt a social structure like that of highland baboons – numerous M:FF subuniits within a larger MM:FF troop. Unlike highland baboons, sacred langur males cannot control (kidnap, lure) female sacred langurs because they are born into lifetime matrilineal societies.
True
Since female sacred langurs stay within their natal groups from birth to death, bachelor males must engage in group take-overs in order to replace an established sentry as the leader of a M:FF group. These events are violent and subadults sometime die due to proximity to their mothers or attraction to the excitement.
True
Whereas some view the accidental death of subadults during sacred langur take-over events as evidence in support of “infanticide” as a selective force, others view these relatively rare outcomes as a product of overpopulation under urbanized conditions.
True
