Brothering Primates Evolution

The Merriam-Webster dictionary explains evolution as a theory of changes that occur because constant change that excel naturally over a long period of time. (Merriam-Webster) This means that over a long period of time there were changes made from all the species and as time progressed we all started to break up into different categories and then different branches of those categories. It is said that we, as humans, share the same category as the primates. Though, over time we started to evolve into a category within ourselves, we share similar features to our brothering primates. Some known charactertics that some primates share with us would be how some of them have the same or similar digits on their hands like us. The same way that were …show more content…
It is said that the red colobus monkey is the chimpanzee’s meal of choice because it is easy to hunt. The red and orange color on their coat allow for easy visibility for the chimpanzees. Together with being easy to hunt, there are many red colobus monkeys near the habitat of the chimpanzees. There is around 500 colobus monkeys within a radius of 18-square- kilometer of the chimpanzee’s habitat. “It has been observed that roughly 75 to 175 colobus monkeys are killed by chimpanzee on a yearly biases. This translates into a mortality rate of between 15 and 35 percent, depending on the frequency of hunting in a given year.” To make it even worse, when chimpanzees hunts the red colobus monkey, they do not do it alone. Most of the times the red colobus monkey is hunted by groups of multiple chimpanzees. When the red colobus monkey is being hunted it is usually by male chimpanzees only. A chimpanzee is capable of capturing a red colobus monkey thirty percent of the time individually, but when hunted by a group of ten or more chimpanzees, the red colobus monkey is captured most of the time. One main reason why the red colobus monkey is haunted by the chimpanzee is for the fats and proteins it has stored. Obviously, the chimpanzees haunt the red colobus monkey as a food source, but together with that, they are also hunted to show political power within their anarchy. When a chimpanzee hunts a red colobus monkey, it shows its anarchy that is has the power to hunt. The more monkeys the chimpanzee kills, the more powerful he is. They also use this to their advantage because it attracts the female chimpanzees, thus allowing them to have mating partners. Essentially, the chimpanzees hunt the red colobus monkey more than it needs to be. Though, they do not go to waste. When a chimpanzee kills more red colobus monkeys than what it needs, it simply provides it to the